Påsketid by Marianne Beate Kielland / Elise Båtnes / Kåre Nordstoga

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Marianne Beate Kielland / Elise Båtnes / Kåre Nordstoga

Påsketid

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Format: CD
Label: Lawo Classics
UPC: 7090020180892
Catnr: LWC 1077
Release date: 16 March 2015
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Label
Lawo Classics

UPC
7090020180892

Catalogue number
LWC 1077

Release date
16 March 2015

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About the album

Easter is the time for the Passions, the sacred music telling the story of Jesus’s suffering and death, each lasting several hours. Along similar lines, we have the Easter hymns. Poets and composers have always found inspiration in the themes of Easter and its many moods and feelings — from awe, festivity, and hope, via humiliation, disappointment, betrayal, anguish, and death, to victory and boundless jubilation. Seen in relation to the Passions, there are few recordings of Easter hymns.
Three of Norway’s finest musicians, mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland, violinist Elise Båtnes, and organist Kåre Nordstoga, have collaborated on the album “Påsketid”, with hymns that convey all the moods of Easter. Featured as well are classical Easter works of Bach, Handel, and Gorecki. The recording aims to illuminate Easter themes and help draw attention to the beautiful Easter hymns, both familiar and lesser known.

Ostern ist die Zeit der Passionen, der geistlichen Musik, die vom Leiden und Tode Jesu berichtet. Dichter und Komponisten haben seit je her Inspiration in den Osterthemen gefunden, seinen verschiedenen Stimmungen und Gefühlen, die von Ehrfurcht, Festlichkeit und Hoffnung über Demütigung, Enttäuschung, Betrug, Pein und Tod bis zu Sieg und grenzenloser Freude reichen.

Im Vergleich zur Zahl der Passionsaufnahmen gibt es nur sehr wenige Einspielungen von Osterchorälen. Drei der besten Musiker Norwegens haben sich dieser Aufgabe nun angenommen und auf Påsketid mit Liedern und Chorälen diese unterschiedlichen Stimmungen des Osterfestes eingefangen. Mit diesen und klassischen Osterwerken von Bach, Händel und Gorecki will diese Aufnahme alle Aufmerksamkeit auch die wunderschönen, wohl- und unbekannten Choräle lenken.

Artist(s)

Elise Båtnes

Elise Båtnes began playing the violin at age four and debuted as soloist with Trondheim Symphony Orchestra four years later. As first concertmaster of Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, she appears as soloist with leading orchestras and conductors around the world. She has five earlier recordings on the LAWO Classics label.

Elise Båtnes began playing the violin at age four and debuted as soloist with Trondheim Symphony Orchestra four years later. As first concertmaster of Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, she appears as soloist with leading orchestras and conductors around the world. She has five earlier recordings on the LAWO Classics label.

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Kåre Nordstoga

Kåre Nordstoga is considered to be one of the foremost concert organists in Europe. He made his debut in 1978 in Oslo Cathedral, where he became Assistant Organist in 1984, and taught for a time at the Norwegian Academy of Music before becoming the cathedral’s full-time Organist in 1994. Nordstoga has released several solo recordings and has participated in a number of releases. As a highly valued accompanist and soloist, he regularly collaborates with some of Norway’s best-known musicians, and is invited to give solo performances on the largest and most renowned organs in Europe. In 2016 Nordstoga was appointed by His Majesty The King of Norway as a Knight (first class) of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olaf...

Kåre Nordstoga is considered to be one of the foremost concert organists in Europe. He made his debut in 1978 in Oslo Cathedral, where he became Assistant Organist in 1984, and taught for a time at the Norwegian Academy of Music before becoming the cathedral’s full-time Organist in 1994. Nordstoga has released several solo recordings and has participated in a number of releases. As a highly valued accompanist and soloist, he regularly collaborates with some of Norway’s best-known musicians, and is invited to give solo performances on the largest and most renowned organs in Europe. In 2016 Nordstoga was appointed by His Majesty The King of Norway as a Knight (first class) of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olaf for his contribution to Norwegian church music.

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Marianne Beate Kielland

“A singer with such charisma challenged her colleagues.” (Dreh-Punkt-Kultur) 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.” She graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music, where she studied with Svein Bjørkøy. Her other teachers have included Oren Brown and Barbara Bonney. Considered today one of Europe’s leading singers, she performs regularly on major concert stages in Europe, America and The East with conductors such as Masaaki Suzuki, Andrew Manze, Petr Popelka, Michel Corboz, Leonardo Alarcon, Herbert Blomstedt, Jordi Savall, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Fabio Biondi and René Jacobs.
In 2012 she received a Grammy nomination in the category ‘Best Classical Vocal Solo’ for her recording of Veslemøy Synsk by the composer Olav Anton Thommessen. In 2021 she received a prestigious OPUS Klassik nomination in the category ‘Female Singer of the Year’ for her recording of Schumann Lieder. With more than sixty other albums in addition to a demanding concert schedule, Marianne Beate Kielland is established as an exceptional performer with a wide-ranging repertoire from baroque to contemporary.
Together with pianist Nils Anders Mortensen she has previously released 12 recordings on the LAWO Classics label: Früh (LWC1033), Sæle jolekveld (LWC1040), Grieg (LWC1059), Young Elling (LWC1072), The New Song (LWC1097), Whispering Mozart (LWC1111), Songs: Kielland/Dørumsgaard (LWC1145), Einsamkeit – Songs by Mahler (LWC1157), Eivind Groven Songs (LWC1178), Schumann Lieder (LWC1197) with baritone Johannes Weisser, and Så kort ein sommar menneska har – Songs by Gisle Kverndokk (LWC1220), and Sigurd Lie Songs, Vol. 1 (LWC1256).
In 2015 she released Påsketid (LWC1077) with violinist Elise Båtnes and organist Kåre Nordstoga, in 2017 Terra Nova (LWC1125) with composer and pianist Jan Gunnar Hoff, in 2020 The Lofoten Oratorio by Ketil Bjørnstad (LWC1202) with Lofoten Voices and MinEnsemblet, in 2022 Lamento (LWC1226), a collection of baroque laments, with Oslo Circles, as well as Jean Sibelius: Orchestral Songs (LWC1239) with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra.