Release Date: 01 October 2018
Label: Bis / BIS Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7318599923413
Composer/Series: The Wind Blows
Description
Born in 1937, Alfred Janson was a key figure among the young Norwegian composers who emerged at the beginning of the 1960s. With a background in jazz and popular music he seemed to represent a new era, and this was confirmed by works such as Construction and Hymn and Nocturne. And ever since then Janson has continued to write his own music, seemingly independently of the current ‘-isms’. One of the cornerstones of his production has been vocal music, and this disc from the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir and Grete Pedersen presents an opportunity to listen to his choral works from five decades. The programme includes settings of poems by Shakespeare (Sonnet No. 76), Nietszche and Emily Dickinson, but also a lyrical hymn to Mother Earth and politically charged texts by contemporaries of the composer.
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire; Sascha Goetzel
Oliver Barlow; Arlo Murray; Sergej Merkusjev; Joonas Ahonen; Barbara Kozelj; London Philharmonic Or
Masaaki Suzuki
Miklos Spanyi
Mahler
Malmo Brass:Stockholm Pb
Madrid Atrium Musicae
Madge
Norwegian Soloists Choir
Norwegian Soloists Choir
Norwegian Soloists Choir
Norwegian Soloists' Choir
Norwegian Soloists Choir
Norwegian Soloists Choir
Norwegian Soloists Choir
