Marianne Beate Kielland, Halvor Festervoll Melien & Nils Anders Mortensen – Kjell Habbestad: Songar om kjærleik (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:06 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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Songs Of Love is Mezzo-Soprano Marianna Beate Kielland’s 13th album at NativeDSD Music. On it she is joined by Baritone Halvor Festervoll Melien and Pianist Nils Anders Mortensen on this album from Lawo Classics.
Composer Kjell Habbestad says “Looking through my songs I discovered that most of them deal with love, often lost or unrequited love; yes, even with the same aspects that one finds in Edvard Munch’s central themes: love, angst and death.
With one exception, the songs in the album are arranged more or less chronologically according to the date of the source, from the Bible to poems by contemporary Norwegian poet Paal-Helge Haugen. Surprisingly, this sequence results in a dramaturgical movement from the love described in the Song of Songs, through the angst-filled life, to death.
In order that the album not end on a negative note, however, I have placed the poem by Olav H. Hauge after the Haugen oems. And there is one more coincidence: Almost without exception the chronological sequence coincides with the order in which the songs were composed”from “3 Canticles” in 1984 to “It is that Dream” in 2015.”
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Marianne Beate Kielland & Nils Anders Mortensen – Sigurd Lie: Songs, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:02 minutes | 2,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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The songs on this release – volume 2 – continue the chronological list from volume 1.The album begins with the remarkably special cycle Wartburg, encompassing an enormous range of singing pathos. The text by Theodor Caspari has to do with Wartburg Castle, with its sweeping history. Martin Luther sought refuge there from May 1521 to March 1522. Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia resided there from 1211 to 1228, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe visited the castle several times, and, notably, the famous “minstrel contest” at the castle was an inspiration for Wagner when he composed his opera Tannhauser. So it is not so unusual that Theodor Caspari was also inspired by the castle’s history and reputation when he wrote his Wartburg texts.
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Marianne Beate Kielland, Nils Anders Mortensen – Sigurd Lie: Songs, Vol. 1 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:19:20 minutes | 2,77 GB | Genre: Classical
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It is an adventure to immerse oneself in the Norwegian treasury of song. There is so much magnificent music, and so much of it bears witness to the time in which it was written. Sigurd Lie was one of the eminent and gifted composers at the end of the nineteenth century. His body of work includes instrumental music and music for male choir and, above all, around 75 songs seldom performed after his death. The song texts were written by Norwegian poets, among them Vilhelm Krag, Sigbjørn Obstfelder and Per Sivle. This is the first of two releases in which Kielland and Mortensen illuminate all the songs and let them shine.
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Marianne Beate Kielland – Så kort ein sommar menneska har – Songs by Gisle Kverndokk (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 54:51 minutes | 1,72 GB | Genre: Classical
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Melody is something I have been passionate about throughout my career as a composer. Crafting a melody that is captivating yet simultaneously original and unpredictable. What, exactly, makes a melody “good”? I’ve been looking into this for years. From studying Palestrina’s strict rules, all the way to studying the American songwriters who created the great “Evergreens” catalogue. Writing for the voice is of great interest to me – especially musical drama. Throughout my years as a composer, I’ve composed songs. Everything from opera arias to simple songs. This album unites several of the genres I’ve worked on. The songs are based on opera, musicals, theatre, folk song programs and poetry evenings. What unites them is my love for poetry. And on this album, you will make the acquaintance of some of the poets I admire the most.
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Marianne Beate Kielland, Nils Anders Mortensen – The New Song (2016)
DSF Stereo DSD128, 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time – 53:18 minutes | 4,22 GB | Genre: Classical, Vocal
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We know many of them — the German Lied, the French chanson, the Scandinavian song — works for voice and piano. Countless such musical pieces have been written throughout history, mainly from Mozart’s time on. But after a couple of hundred years, this form of composition fell “out of fashion”, and composers often used other ways to accompany singers.
How do we think of classical song today? I challenged three composers to each write his “Lied”, a piece of music for voice and piano, and received three remarkably different results. Two hundred years ago, the format was predictable; today, boundaries have dissolved, and the composer turns out whatever the heart desires. What these composers write about their own works appears later on.
In addition, we wished to include five wonderfully distinctive songs of Edvard Hagerup Bull — a composer of our own time, but one who was and remained controversial, and, as such, was essentially deprived of recognition and fame in Norway. Edvard Hagerup Bull was a grandnephew of Edvard Grieg, he studied with Messiaen and Milhaud, among others, and he lived a large part of his life in Paris.
Many are familiar with the short aphoristic poems of Piet Hein known as “grooks” — artful, thought-provoking texts with their unconventional way of looking at life. Coupled with Hagerup Bull’s playful, humoristic music, they become musical gems deserving of attention and performance. We are pleased to have these songs on the recording! To be on the safe side, I wish to point out that the “grooks” are written in Danish, but I have chosen to sing the texts with Norwegian pronunciation. –Marianne Beate Kielland
Marianne Beate Kielland, Norwegian Radio Orchestra & Petr Popelka – Sibelius: Orchestral Songs (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:18 minutes | 1,55 GB | Genre: Classical
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Mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland is famous for her strong stage presence and musical integrity. Gramophone Magazine writes about her: The mezzo-soprano is quite outstanding: strong, firm, sensitive in modulations, imaginative in her treatment of words, with a voice pure in quality, wide in range and unfalteringly true in intonation. Considered today one of Europes leading singers, she says of this new recording: “As my career has progressed, I have had the chance to make numerous recordings featuring a variety of repertoires, and I have always felt the desire to record the songs of Sibelius. A wonderful opportunity presented itself when the Norwegian Radio Orchestra with Chief Conductor Petr Popelka expressed its willingness to be part of such a recording. Virtually all Sibelius songs are written for voice and piano, but many of them seem as though made for orchestral sounds and instrumental subtlety. Therefore a number of his finest songs have fortunately been orchestrated, and it is these editions we have used for this recording. A few of the orchestrations were done by Sibelius himself, one by his contemporary, Simon Parmet (n Pergament), while several were orchestrated by his own son-in-law, conductor Jussi Jalas. This album presents orchestrated songs of Sibelius from four opus numbers: 17, 36, 37 and 38.
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Oslo Circles, Marianne Beate Kielland – Lamento (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:04:04 minutes | 2,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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‘OSTINATI LAMENTI’ is a literary genre that developed with various names in Roman languages in the Middle Ages, which typically involves a character complaining in the first person about unrequited love, loss or even their own death. It became very popular in Italy during the Renaissance, due predominantly to the expansion of the publishing industry and renewed interest in the Greek and Latin classics, for example the laments Ludovico Ariosto borrowed from Ovid, including the weeping Olympia.
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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Daniel Reuss, Athena Poullos, Lucie Chartin, Marianne Beate Kielland, Thomas Walker, Christophe Balissat, Ensemble Vocal De Lausanne – Honegger: Le Roi David (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:35 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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With Le Roi David, written when he was less than 30 years old, Honegger produced one of his first great masterpieces. In 27 numbers overflowing with astonishing musical invention, the oratorio brilliantly recreates a distant biblical past in a resolutely modern language. It enjoyed immediate and lasting popular success.
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