Magne Amdahl's Astrognosia won an award as Norway's orchestral work of the year in 1994, when stylistically conservative orchestral music was less common than it would be 20 years later. Amdahl has worked both inside and outside the concert music tradition. It is an entertaining work, something of a modern-day Carnival of the Animals given the preponderance of animals (some of them human) among the signs of the zodiac to which the 17 movements of the work refer (there are three "Interludia," a prelude, and a final pavane in ...
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Magne Amdahl's Astrognosia won an award as Norway's orchestral work of the year in 1994, when stylistically conservative orchestral music was less common than it would be 20 years later. Amdahl has worked both inside and outside the concert music tradition. It is an entertaining work, something of a modern-day Carnival of the Animals given the preponderance of animals (some of them human) among the signs of the zodiac to which the 17 movements of the work refer (there are three "Interludia," a prelude, and a final pavane in addition to the individual zodiac signs). The Norwegian Radio Orchestra under Ingar Bergby gets the fun in the work, and the second piece on the program, Æsops fabler (a set of spoken fables of Aesop accompanied by orchestra), might easily work well as part of an orchestral family program. The fables are in Norwegian, but there is no reason they couldn't be translated into English or other languages, and translations are available here. The real star of the show, rather than Amdahl...
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