Fire Walker Marion Walker

• Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953): Quintet, Op. 39:
• 1 Prokofiev: Quintet, Op. 39: I. Tema con variazioni 05:00
• 2 Prokofiev: Quintet, Op. 39: II. Andante energico 02:59
• 3 Prokofiev: Quintet, Op. 39: III. Allegro sostenuto, ma con brio 02:14
• 4 Prokofiev: Quintet, Op. 39: IV. Adagio pesante 02:51
• 5 Prokofiev: Quintet, Op. 39: V. Allegro precipitato, ma non troppo presto 02:46
• 6 Prokofiev: Quintet, Op. 39: VI. Andantino 04:21
• Jon Øivind Ness (b. 1968): Bælþræk, Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello:
• 7 Ness: Bælþræk, Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello 26:30
• Bælsiþ, Concerto for Oboe and Sinfonietta:
• 8 Ness: Bælsiþ, Concerto for Oboe and Sinfonietta 18:54
• Total Runtime 01:05:35

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Prokofiev's chamber music output is relatively modest--a handful of sonatas, two string quartets, an overture of Hebrew themes for clarinet, string quartet and piano, as well as this quintet for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and bass.

The quintet, with its peculiar instrumentation and its tonal and rhythmic playfulness-- described by some as "successfully circusy"--is a prime example of Prokofiev as an ironist and humorist, a superb craftsman who elegantly juggles his material and produces surprisingly sonorous, tonal and rhythmic kaleidoscopes. The work is one of his most radical, but the crassness of the elements is placated by the lightness of the form--like a kind of polite insolence Humour has long been a central ingredient in Jon Oivind Ness's music, ever since he put his perilous life as a cat owner to music in the trombone concerto Dangerous Kitten (1997). In recent years, his music has transformed significantly, from the complex irony of the 90s, via the almost--to quote the composer himself--romantic fervour of the mid-00s, to a microtonally oriented musical language and occasionally ascetic expression in the last 10 years or so. Broadly speaking, there has been a development from the anarchistic maximal to the punctuated minimal (albeit occasionally massive), but as is so often the case, a leopard doesn't always completely change his spots.

Sara Ovinge, violin
Anders Rensvik, viola
Ingvill Hafskjold, clarinet
Gunnar Hauge, cello
Marius Flatby, double bass
Ensemble Ernst

Marion Walker
a graduate of the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Geneva Conservatory of Music, is alternate solo oboist with Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, a former member of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and has played with all the professional orchestras in Norway as well as orchestras in Sweden, Australia and Switzerland.

In 2008, Walker was the first in Scandinavia to introduce special children's oboes that make it possible for children to play the oboe. For a while, she organised annual teacher training courses for oboists and bassoonists, and since then has started teaching children to play bassoon and oboe at cultural schools in all the country's major cities.

After many years as an observant mother of 3 "suzuki children" and about a hundred suzuki classes, Walker was encouraged to develop Suzuki for oboe. She has taken level 1 Suzuki teacher training with trumpeter Ann-Marie Sundberg and cellist Haukur Hannesson and has developed a possible prototype for the oboe's suzuki book 1. This is in a process that after many rounds of approval and peer review will hopefully give us Suzuki method for oboe.

Marion has been a soloist with the SSO, KSO, KORK and various amateur orchestras, had several works composed for him, participated in recordings, and received a number of grants and awards.

As an instructor and teacher, Walker has worked with young wind players for over 20 years in brass bands, cultural schools, talent groups at the Barratt Dues Music Institute, and summer camps across the country.

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