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Charlotte Hug / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Fine Extensions
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Viola and cello have coexisted in splendid harmony on the concert stage for hundreds of years, both instruments bolstering powerful orchestral settings for every composer, even before Haydn, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven employed violin and cello in compositions with vivid effect. What delights the inner ear, however, especially on the brazen Fine Extensions, is the fact that these instruments transcend all earlier sonic relationships between the strings. Locked in the embrace of a tonal adventure, jousting with one another, egging ...
Continue ReadingCharlotte Hug / Fred Lonberg-Holm: Fine Extensions
by John Eyles
Dating from a concert in Zurich in March 2009, this duo between violist Charlotte Hug and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm adds to the impressive array of improvising string recordings already on Emanem. The viola and cello--the two middle members of the violin family--overlap in the pitches they can produce, so the combination makes for fascinating listening; mainly, their sounds are distinct enough to be clearly distinguishable, but sometimes they play in similar ranges so that they blend together more. Hug and ...
Continue ReadingCharlotte Hug - Nina De Heney - Christian Jormin: Acoustic Electronics
by AAJ Italy Staff
Trio internazionale composto dagli svedesi Nina de Heney e Christian Jormin e dalla svizzera Charlotte Hug, la più nota grazie alle collaborazioni con John Butcher, Barry Guy, Phil Minton. Album per nulla facile, questo Acoustic Electronics: improvvisazione pura, prodotta e composta all'istante come si evince dalle note di copertina. Sonorità intriganti... melodie deflagranti che evolvono fino a disintegrarsi, poliritmie acustiche con qualche elemento di elettronica, ma con grande misura e parsimonia. Musica che scorazza tra la contemporanea colta e il ...
Continue ReadingMagda Vogel - John Wolf Brennan: Sculpted Sound
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ardita opera di ricerca, Sculpted Sound è stato commissionato a John Wolf Brennan dallo Swiss Arts Concil Pro Helvetia ed è stato eseguito la prima volta a Londra il 5 giugno del 2000. Ha in seguito subito vari riarrangiamenti e viene presentato in questo CD del 2004 su una registrazione del 2001, nel quale alle 12 tracce del progetto originali, registrate in studion, ne vengono aggiunte altre tre, provenienti da live di analoga ispirazione. La poetica del lavoro è complessa, ...
Continue ReadingCharlotte Hug: Neuland (2001-2)
by John Eyles
In a relatively short time in London, Swiss violist Charlotte Hug (pronounced Hoog) made a big impression through her work at All Angels, with Tony Wren's Quatuor Accorde, at the Freedom of the City festival with Maggie Nichols & Caroline Kraabel and with the London Improvisers' Orchestra.She is somewhat renowned for performing in unusual venues. These have included ice caverns of the Rhone Glacier, and an acoustically insulated S&M torture chamber. Hug herself is a dramatic performer, strikingly ...
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