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Norwegian opera singer (1889-1936)
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2023-12-15 00:00:00
Another miscellany of orchestral and vocal music (Bostock, Corp, Davan Wetton, DePaul Wind Ensemble, Dreier, Elder, Pesek, The Albion Ensemble)
[…] scans]Recording venue: Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, LondonRecording engineer: Tony Faulkner; Producer: Arthur JohnsonNorwegian Rhapsody:01 - 04 Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No.1, op.46 [14'17]05 Edvard Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies, op.34 - II. The Last Spring [5'42]06 Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dances, op.35 - II. Allegretto tranquillo e grazioso [2'29]07 Johan Svendsen: Polonaise [8'17]08 Johan Svendsen: Variations on a Norwegian Folk Tune [6'29]09 Halfdan Kjerulf: The Wedding in Hardanger [2'57]10 Ole Bull: Solitude [3'07]11 Rikard Nordraak (orch: Halvorsen): From Maria Stuart - Purpose [4'01]12 Rikard Nordraak (orch: Halvorsen): From Maria Stuart - Valse Caprice [2'20]13 Rikard Nordraak (orch: Halvorsen): Olav Trygvason [2'58]14 Johan Halvorsen: Entry of the Boyars [5'06]15 Johan Halvorsen: Danse Visionaire [7'51]16 Johan Svendsen: Norwegian Artists' Carneval [6'46]17 Rikard Nordraak (orch: Halvorsen): Norwegian National Anthem [1'12]Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Per DrierCD RPO 8015 [recorded January 1989; CD issued 1989][digital download; flacs, cover scan - lo-res inlay and booklet from […]
2023-11-03 11:59:00
Fairy Tales: Elisabeth Turmo and Elena Toponogova explore lesser-known Norwegian and Russian repertoire
Norwegian violinist Elisabeth Turmo and her duo-partner Elena Toponogova are releasing a new disc on the Quartz label, Fairy Tales, featuring a range of rarely performed fairy-tale-inspired pieces by Norwegian and Russian composers. The two are launching the disc at the 1910 Arts Club on 16 November 2023 [further details] when they will be performing music from the album. The Norwegian and Russian repertoire represents the interests of the two performers and means that Turmo will not just be playing the violin but also the Hardanger fiddle, Norway's national instrument.The disc features Norwegian music by Ole Bull (1810-1880), Johan Halvorsen (1864-1965), Trygve Madsen (born 1940), and Anders Viken (1898-1977) mixing classical repertoire with that of folk fiddlers. The interest of the Russian strand must inevitably centre two pieces by Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) based on Rimsky Korsakov's Scheherazade, but there is also the Fantasy on themes from Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Golden Cockerel by Efrem Zimbalist (1889-1985), […]
2023-02-17 00:00:00
Grieg, Halvorsen, Rangstrom, Ravel, Saeverud, Selmer, Svendsen & Tveitt: Orchestral Works (Michail Jurowski & Sigurd Slåttebrekk)
Norwegian Heartland:1.01, 1.06, 2.06 & 2.11 Four Traditional Songs * [3'32]1.02, 1.07, 1.14, 2.04, 2.05, 2.07, 2.08, & 2.12 Geirr Tveitt: 100 Folk-tunes from Hardanger, op.151 - No.1, No.14, No.60, No.26, No.66, No.12, No.9 & No.47 [22'44]1.03 Johan Svendsen: Norwegian Rhapsody No. 4, op.22 [12'19]1.04 Harald Saeverud: Rondo Amoroso, op.14a no.7 [4'45]1.05 Johan Halvorsen: Norwegian Rhapsody No. 2 in G major [11'35] 1.08 - 1.13 Harald Saeverud: Peer Gynt. Suite No. 1, op.28 ^ [36'46]1.15 Johan Halvorsen: Bergensiana. Rococo Variations on an Old Tune from Bergen [11'10]2.01 - 2.03 Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, op.16 ~ [29'05]2.09 Johan Halvorsen: Bojarenes Intogsmarsj 'Entry of the Boyars' [4'44]2.10 Johan Svendsen: Norsk Kunstnerkarneval 'Norwegian Artist's Carnival', op.14 [6'18]2.13 Harald Saeverud: Her Last Cradle Song, op.22a no.3 [3'10]2.14 Harald Saeverud: Canto Rivoltoso, op.22a no.5 [6'27]Arve Moen Bergset- vocal*; Isa Katharina Gericke- soprano^; Sigurd Slåttebrekk- piano~; Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michail JurowskiSimax PSC1260 […]
2022-05-12 00:40:46
Colour of Music Festival at I’On Chapel Mount Pleasant Return to I’On for a Special Evening of Chamber Music Saturday, May 21 May 11, 2022, Charleston SC —In tandem with a concert event at the Charleston Library Society May 19, the Colour of Music Festival will return to I’On Village in Mount Pleasant SC at I’On Village Chapel, Saturday, May 21, 2022, at 7:30 p.m. for a special performance showcasing leading Black classical artists. German-born violinist Anyango Yarbo-Davenport will be featured as part of an evening of duos and quartets in I’On’s picturesque village community east of the Cooper. The evening will include a duo for violin and viola by John Halvorsen,Zoltán Kodály’s Duo for Violin and Cello Op. 7 and works by two black composers―Valerie Coleman’s Umoja for String Quartet and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s String Quartet […]
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