In May 1999 Sverre Indris Joner did his first orchestrations in a project
called "Symphonic Tango", a project in Oslo Concert-house with the Oslo
Philharmonic Orchestra, the profiled tango dancer Pablo Verón, conductor
Rolf Gupta and his tango-quartet "Tango for 3" (incl Per Arne Glorvigen).
The concert had near 10 000 espectators in 4 days and the concerts got outstanding critics
in the Oslo newspapers. The arrangements Indris wrote were for symphony orchestra and tango-quartet. The themes were traditional argentine
melodies (tango, milonga, vals).
Zum
Orillera
Tanguera
Pata Ancha
Desde el alma
The next project was a family-concert in february 2000 with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestra commissioned 4 arrangements for full orchestra. Two where Argentine melodies and two where Cuban. The conductor was Ingar Bergby and Sverre Indris Joner played orchestral percussion in the
Cuban themes. They were:
La trampera
Danzarín
Club social de Marianao
Mambo medley (Calculadora, mambo with me, Dile a Catalina)
Trondheim Symphonic Orchestra and the quartet Tango for 3 did
a concert during the Latin music festival
In January 2001. For this ocation Sverre Indris Joner wrote an orchestration of his own composition "Mi viejo dolor". The concert was conducted by Christian Eggen.
Tango for 3s bandoneon-player Per Arne Glorvigen was the host of two tv-programs using The Norwegian Radio Orchestra combined with tango and
other latin genres. The quartet "Tango for 3" was again the center of the
project together with uruguayan singer Daniel Amaro. The two cuban
percussionist Calixto Oviedo and Alfredo Chacón, singer Alexander Fernandez
and bass-player Ole Marius Melhuus contributed in the program with Cuban
profile. Sverre Indris Joner played piano & percussion in both programs and
wrote arrangements of the following themes:
Melodia de Arrabal
Fuga y Misterio
Malena
La Partida
Llorando se fue
Piel canela
Flickan i Havanna
Under the direction of the catalan conductor Josep Pons the Deutsche KammerPhilharmonie invited Tango for 3 + 1 to participate in the always rainy outdoor-arrangement called "Summer in Lesmona". Seldome have a whole orchestra been literally totally drowned in the sound of the rain & hail! But the audience seem to love this event and come every year, and the numbers are growing! Josep Pons used the words of a not too intelligent fellow countryman (toreador) "I have only two words for this - im pressive!"
The repertoir was a selection of arrangements previously written and used in other orchestras + additional material.
The quartet "Tango for 3" did a concert in Dresden may 2003 with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. 10 of the orchestrations where by Sverre Indris Joner. The tango-couple Claudia Codega & Esteban Moreno from Buenos Aires performed 5 dances during the show. The solo bass player in the orchestra was Kilian Forster - one of the people behind the project Classic meets Cuba which consists of the trio "Klazzbrothers" and two cuban percussionists as "Cubapercussion". Kilian Forster commisioned arrangements for the nexts Classic meets Cuba - CD. Indris wrote 9 arrangements of classical themes.Tobias Forster- the pianoplayer in Klazzbrothers - wrote another 6 arrangements. In a concert in may 2004 the arrangements where played for the first time. Conductor was Roger Epple for the opera in Halle.
In July 2004 the recording by Munchner Rundfunk Orchestra started. 7 arrangements of Indris and 7 of Tobias Forster where recorded. The titles by Indris where:
Cuban Sugar (Sugar plum fairy dance from Nutcracker - Tschaikovsky)
Cinco Salsa (Beethovens 5 symphony, first movement.)
Cuban Danube (An Der Schønen Blauen Donau, Johan Strauss jr.)
Salsaria (Air, Bach)
Habanera verdadera (Carmen suites 1 - 3 , Bizet)
The two next are only available on a special edition sold by Amazon.de:
Bata march (march from Nutcracker - Tschaikovsky)
Wedding bells (Wedding-march from Lohengrin, Wagner)
The recording was released by Sony Classic in 2005 and was on a tour in Germany same year. The CD is available at www.amazon.de
The last project of collaboration between Klazz Brothers and Indris is a version of Mahlers first symphony for jazz trio and Symphony orchestra.
It was performed by Dresden Symphony Orchestra and Klazz Brothers in Dresden (twice!) on new years eve 2005 and on first new years day 2006.