The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra celebrates 40 years - with outstanding new music.

Celebrating 40 years in 2017, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra is releasing this album with four pieces by the composer who has written more music for the NCO than any other living composer - Eivind Buene! NCO has been an outstanding proponent for Norwegian musicianship and music throughout their existence. The collaboration with Eivind Buene (1973) has indeed been fruitful, and these works have been performed on several occasions all over the world. "I experienced orchestral contemporary music live for the first time with NCO, at the Ultima festival. Tønnesen was the soloist - Dionysian with his fiddle and black curls, and the music gave me a huge kick. That was a turning point in my 17-year-old life - it was then I realised I wanted to be a composer."