Edvard Grieg Kor sings Grieg
Audun Iversen (baritone)
Edvard Grieg Kor, Paul Robinson, Håkon Matti Skrede
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
Lang’s Last Spring is a beautiful, distilled and resonant work after Grieg and is nobly sung by the Bergen-based Edvard Grieg Choir here, as is the Norwegian composer’s own choral arrangement...
Edvard Grieg Kor sings Grieg
Audun Iversen (baritone)
Edvard Grieg Kor, Paul Robinson, Håkon Matti Skrede
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
Lang’s Last Spring is a beautiful, distilled and resonant work after Grieg and is nobly sung by the Bergen-based Edvard Grieg Choir here, as is the Norwegian composer’s own choral arrangement...
About
The Norwegian vocal ensemble Edvard Grieg Kor is the resident acappella ensemble at Troldhaugen, the home of Edvard Grieg. Displaying versatility across all musical genres, they perform regularly with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and also form the core of the Chorus for Bergen National Opera. They have had numerous works and arrangements written specially for them by leading composers including Jonathan Rathbone, and David Lang, both of whom are represented here on this the choir’s debut recording. Greig’s Fire Salmer, (Four Psalms) after Norwegian folk tunes (his final opus) and his shorter Ave Maris Stella (performed here in an a cappella arrangement made by the composer) are two rare examples of religion in Greig’s output. Works by fellow Norwegian composers Ole Bull and Agathe Backer Grøndahl, and a sensational and virtuosic arrangement of Greig’s Holberg Suite complete the programme.
Contents and tracklist
- Audun Iversen (baritone)
- Edvard Grieg Kor
- Håkon Matti Skrede
- Turid Moberg (alto)
- Edvard Grieg Kor
- Hilde Veslemøy Hagen (soprano), Ørjan Hartveit (baritone)
- Edvard Grieg Kor
- Edvard Grieg Kor
- Håkon Matti Skrede
- Edvard Grieg Kor
- Håkon Matti Skrede
- Edvard Grieg Kor
- Paul Robinson
Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceMay 2019
July 2019
Lang’s Last Spring is a beautiful, distilled and resonant work after Grieg and is nobly sung by the Bergen-based Edvard Grieg Choir here, as is the Norwegian composer’s own choral arrangement of his Ave maris stella…A passable start, but this album alienates itself quickly thereafter.
July 2019
I would certainly like to hear more of them in their eight-voice formation. The documentation in the booklet is excellent while the Chandos sound in both formats is in the best traditions of the house…
May 2019
A characterful arrangement of the Holberg Suite closes this lovely album from the fresh-voiced Norwegian choir, the sopranos blithely taking the stratospheric writing in their stride. The Four Psalms are another winner, especially the rustic, very secular-sounding Guds Søn har gjort mig fri, which sounds like it’s strayed in from the early stretches of Peer Gynt.