(...) The only thing on the program that was not from Sæverud's hand was "Janus", a commissioned work for flute and orchestra by Knut Vaage, one of our best-known, living composers from Western Norway. The reason for the order was that the evening's soloist, Ingela Øien, has been employed by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra for 40 years. Øien and Vaage have long collaborated closely. Øien alternated between C flute, alto flute and bass flute, and Vaage tried out a wide range of timbres in the various flutes and their interaction with the orchestra. It felt as if Vaage gradually opened up several rooms in the orchestra, with mysterious moods in the instrument groups, in parallel with the soloist's individual sound space opening up for us. Gradually, a denser, rhythmic drive with jazzy impulses emerged. Both the flute and the orchestra played with different blue tones, which were stretched further and further down in an enthralling manner. It is not often that one gets to hear works for flute soloist and orchestra, neither older nor newly written music. It was particularly exciting to hear Øien unfold on the bass flute. Towards the end of the work, she and Vaage explored the overtones in this largest of the flutes. These timbres were new to me – hoarse and hollow, but at the same time fascinatingly distinct into overtones.

Maja Sievers Skanding - music reviewer for BT