Recording from 18. Sep 2025

Matre: preSage

Ørjan Matre was inspired by Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring when he wrote preSage in 2013, a ritual for orchestra that clings resolutely to a two-note rhythm and a fixed string chord lifted from Stravinsky’s piece, and whips them into a frenzy.

«Seductive sounds abounded in preSage, Ørjan Matre's 2013 work», Financial Times after the Bergen Philharmonic's performance of the piece at the BBC Proms in 2015.