3-way project

Den siste utgivelsen fra Stein-Erik Olsen, 3-way project (Simax PSC 1253), har høstet mange lovord allerede.

Til terningkast 6 skriver bt.no blant annet dette:

- Teknisk og musikalsk har han knapt vært bedre. Komposisjonene benytter ulike virkemidler og reflekterer opphavsmennenes temperament på direkte vis. Gitarens muligheter utnyttes på en elegant og kunnskapsrik måte, og det skapes mange undrende og fascinerende stemninger underveis. Dette er en plate som skiller seg ut. [Espen Selvik, Bergens Tidende]

Classical Guitar Magazine skriver dette:

- It is all played superbly by Stein-Erik Olsen. [Colin Cooper. Classical Guitar Magazine]

- Stein-Erik Olsen meistert jede Klippe...... Eine wirklich faszinierende Platte. [Agas]

For øyeblikket

Ny Gitar Konsert

”Bergen Concerto” tilegnet Stein-Erik Olsen 2006.

Koshkin sier om "the Bergen Concerto":
"I wanted to write something very beautiful and strong, the concerto of the larger scale than usually we meet in the repertoire, in the scale of Stein Erik Olsen. And I decided to use the full size symphony orchestra to have all the colours on my palette.

I've been several times to Norway. This country is very impressive to me. It is the country of the excellent musicians. And I admire a lot the severe Norwegian beauty and the people. They love music and they understand it very well. Maybe also because of that my music was always very successful in Norway. And of course I was in Bergen, the native city of one of my favourite composers - Edward Grieg. So I decided not only to dedicate the music to Stein Erik but also to give a second dedication in the title, to connect the music with Bergen, and by that with the Norwegian music, with great Edward Grieg traditions, with my beloved Scandinavia.

The concerto is in three movements - very classical structure. The tension goes through the whole work and gets to the highest degree in the monumental final movement. The second movement is all "white" as a snow in winter. Not a single alliterated note. The climax is very unusual for guitar concerto. It is strong and majestic as the Norwegian fiords. The final starts as a simple funny Polka but going through the development it's changing into a powerful dramatic movement - the climax of the whole composition.
In the guitar part I use some specific techniques, which I know Stein Erik is very good with. In the cadenza the soloist has to tune the guitar from D to E while playing, and the closing scales needs a special fingering. In general the guitar part is very virtuoso and rich."

Nye CD utgivelser.

"L'espace entre nous"

"L'espace entre nous" er i samarbeid med fløytist Gro Sandvik. Platen består av russisk og amerikansk musikk for fløyte og gitar. Gro Sandvik er professor i fløyte ved Grieg Akademiet og gjesteprofessor ved University of Iowa School of Music.

Repertoire:

• Noel Zahler: "L'espace entre nous" (For Gro Sandvik og Stein-Erik Olsen)
• Nikita Koshkin: "Oratorium Lacrimae" (For Gro sandvik og Stein-Erik Olsen)
• Edison Denisov: "Sonata for flute and guitar"
• Lowel Liebermann: "Sonate"

”The Ida Presti Project” (2007-2008)

Manuskriptet til disse stykkene ble nylig funnet i Paris.

"The Ida Presti Project" er et samrabeid med Olivier Chassain, professor ved CNSM i Paris.

Innspillingen vil bli gjort på Musée da la Musique in Cité de la Musique i Paris. Vi har fått tillatelse til å bruke Presti og Lagoys berømte Bouchet gitarer fra samlingen av instrumenter i Musée de la Musique