Something Blue by Christiania Mannskor

Various composers

Christiania Mannskor

Something Blue

Format: CD
Label: Lawo Classics
UPC: 7090020181196
Catnr: LWC 1107
Release date: 11 November 2016
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Label
Lawo Classics

UPC
7090020181196

Catalogue number
LWC 1107

Release date
11 November 2016

"The group’s bright, forward sound might leave you wanting something darker and more plaintive for Pärt, but everthing else is hard to find fault with."

American Record Guide, 26-6-2017

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About the album

Christiania Mannskor was established in 2009 and is dedicated to the renewal and revitalization of men’s choir singing in Norway. The ensemble works closely with several of the country’s leading composers, and works with both old and new compositions for men’s choir in an attempt to make the genre more accessible to the people of Oslo and across the country. The group is made up of eighteen professional singers. “Something Blue” is the ensemble’s second recording of Norwegian music on the LAWO Classics label. Their first release, “Something New,” was the first in the series of what will be four albums and consists only of works by Norwegian composers written in the past twenty years.

Christiania Mannskor wurde 2009 gegründet und widmet sich der Erneuerung und Revitalisierung des Männerchorgesangs in Norwegen. "Something Blue" ist die zweite Aufnahme des norwegischen Ensembles auf dem Label LAWO Classics.

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Christiania Mannskor

Christiania Mannskor, established in 2009, is Norway’s professional men’s choir. It is made up of 18 singers under the direction of conductor Marius Skjølaas. The ensemble has regular engagements in Oslo and countrywide and has performed at the invitation of, among others, the Norwegian government and parliament. Christiania Mannskor is dedicated to the renewal and revitalisation of men’s choir singing in Norway. “Like Father, Like Son” is the ensemble’s fifth release on the LAWO Classics label. Previous releases are “Something New” (2014), “Something Blue” (2016), “Norge, mitt Norge” (2017), together with the Royal Norwegian Air Force Band, and “Something Borrowed” (2019).

Christiania Mannskor, established in 2009, is Norway’s professional men’s choir. It is made up of 18 singers under the direction of conductor Marius Skjølaas. The ensemble has regular engagements in Oslo and countrywide and has performed at the invitation of, among others, the Norwegian government and parliament.
Christiania Mannskor is dedicated to the renewal and revitalisation of men’s choir singing in Norway. “Like Father, Like Son” is the ensemble’s fifth release on the LAWO Classics label. Previous releases are “Something New” (2014), “Something Blue” (2016), “Norge, mitt Norge” (2017), together with the Royal Norwegian Air Force Band, and “Something Borrowed” (2019).

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Marius Skjølås (conductor)

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Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions put the music of Norway in the international spectrum, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius and Antonín Dvořák did in Finland and Bohemia, respectively. Grieg is regarded as simultaneously nationalistic and cosmopolitan in his orientation, for although born in Bergen and buried there, he travelled widely throughout Europe, and considered his music to express both the beauty of Norwegian rural life and the culture of Europe as a whole. He is...

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions put the music of Norway in the international spectrum, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius and Antonín Dvořák did in Finland and Bohemia, respectively.
Grieg is regarded as simultaneously nationalistic and cosmopolitan in his orientation, for although born in Bergen and buried there, he travelled widely throughout Europe, and considered his music to express both the beauty of Norwegian rural life and the culture of Europe as a whole. He is the most celebrated person from the city of Bergen, with numerous statues depicting his image, and many cultural entities named after him.

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The group’s bright, forward sound might leave you wanting something darker and more plaintive for Pärt, but everthing else is hard to find fault with.
American Record Guide, 26-6-2017

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