Dostupnosť:
dodacia doba 7-28 dní
Autori:
Anthony Holborne, Bjarte Eike, Dieterich Buxtehude, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, John Dowland, Jon Balke, traditional, William Byrd
Interpreti:
Berit Norbakken Solset, Bjarte Eike, Jon Balke, Miloš Valent
Tabhair dom do lámh (‘Give me your hand’)
Ruaidri Dáll Ó Catháin / arr. Bjarte Eike
Devising Susanne, pavane with divisions
Johann Sommer / arr. Bjarte Eike
Niel Gow’s lament for the death of his second wife
Niel Gow / arr. Bjarte Eike
Balke:
Introducing Susanne – a meditation on Susanne 'un jour'
Biber:
Die Kreuztragung (‘The carrying of the Cross’): Sonata (1st movement)
Buxtehude:
Klaglied 'Muß der Tod denn auch entbinden', BuxWV 76/2
Byrd:
Ye sacred muses - an elegy for Thomas Tallis
Dowland:
Sorrow, stay
Flow my teares (Lacrimæ)
Suzanna Galliard
Eike:
Savn – a tune for Signe
Holborne:
The image of Melancholly
Wanton
Muy linda
Mr Holborn’s Last Will and Testament
trad.:
Bjørnsons bruremarsj
arr. Bjarte Eike
Gjendines bådnlåt
arr. Jon Balke/Bjarte Eike
Joj Mati (‘Oh, mother, dear mother’)
arr. Milos Valent
Evertsbergs gamla brudmarsch
arr. Bjarte Eike
Bånsull
arr. Jon Balke/Bjarte Eike
cast:
Jon Balke (organ / soundscapes), Berit Norbakken Solset (soprano), Milos Valent (viola) & Bjarte Eike (artistic director & violin)
Conceived by the baroque violinist Bjarte Eike for his period band Barokksolistene, this programme is his very personal ‘image of melancholy’. As he writes in his liner notes, ‘for me, melancholy is not only synonymous with sadness and despair, it is a state also harbouring reflection, meditation and relief.’ The connection between music and melancholy is far from new – at least since the time of the ancient Greeks, and probably long before them, there has been a belief that music has the power to influence our mood, to alleviate sadness or melancholy – or to induce it. Melancholy has at various times been the height of fashion – think of John Dowland, whose motto was: ‘Semper Dowland, semper dolens’ (‘always Dowland, always mourning’). Dowland is of course included here, as is his near-contemporary Anthony Holborne – but there are also a number of later pieces, as well as folk music from Eike’s native Norway and elsewhere. This music, writes Eike, ‘does not belong to any particular style, nationality or period in time; it’s rather a string of tunes that have all had a personal significance to me, and that together form a musical matrimony between a Nordic melancholy, the rich sounds of the Elizabethan consort and a modern approach to music-making.’ Joined by the soprano Berit Norbakken Solset and by the jazz pianist Jon Balke, Eike and his ensemble have created an intensely atmospheric and highly suggestive disc, which richly lives up to its motto – a quote by Victor Hugo: ‘Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.’