| A Night at Salle Pleyel | |
| Type: | live |
| Artist: | Susanne Sundfør |
| Cover: | A Night At Salle Pleyel.jpg |
| Released: | 18 November 2011 |
| Recorded: | 18 August 2011 |
| Venue: | Sentrum Scene |
| Length: | 47:02 |
| Label: | EMI Music Norway |
| Prev Title: | The Brothel |
| Prev Year: | 2010 |
| Next Title: | The Silicone Veil |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
A Night at Salle Pleyel is a live instrumental album by Norwegian singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør, released on 11 November 2011.[1] The album was recorded at Sentrum Scene in Oslo on 18 August 2011, and served as commission piece for the Oslo Jazzfestival's 25th anniversary.[2] It is composed solely of synthesizers with a team of four keyboardists chosen by Sundfør.[3]
The album was commissioned by the Oslo Jazzfestival, which asked Sundfør to write 44 minutes of music: "I didn't have any other restrictions or guidelines or anything. So I decided to make a piece of music for a string quintet. And then, when I started writing, during the process I got more and more convinced that this would sound really cool with just five synths. So at the beginning it sounds more like classical music and then it goes more and more into this synth world."[2] Sundfør said she considers the album to be more of a side project to her main project.[2]
Credits adapted from the liner notes of A Night at Salle Pleyel.[4]