Norwegian Soloists Choir - Choral Music - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Album Tracks 1. Prelude 2. Allemande 3. Courante 4. Sarabande 5. Menuet I & II 6. Gigue 7. Prelude 8. Allemande 9. Courante 10. Sarabande 11. Bourree I & II 12. Gigue 13. 13/1. Prelude 13/2. Fuga 14. Allemande 15. Courante 16. Sarabande 17. Gavotte 18. Gigue

The first (almost) complete recording of Nielsen's comic masterpiece, plus a previously unreleased fairy-tale rarity, under the inspirational baton of the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra's founder-conductor. Launy Grøndahl knew both Carl Nielsen and Knud Jeppesen personally he conducted their music with unrivalled sympathy and passion. His 1954 recording of Maskarade is full of native wit and simple joys, while Aesop's fable of The Eagle and the Beetle is dramatized as a typically Danish morality-tale of revenge on the high and mighty. Volume 5 is in preparation for a 2021 and will have Grøndahl conducting 4 Danish symphonies and two orchestral suites. Album Tracks 1. Maskarade, FS 39 (1904-1906) - Opera in Three Acts 2. Act 1 3. Act 2 4. Act 3 5. Ørnen Og Skarnbassen, FS 39 (1904-1906) the Eagle and the Beetle

To mark Oslo International Church Music Festival's anniversary in 2020, a new St. Matthew Passion was commissioned from Bent Sørensen, one of northern Europe's most performed and admired composers and winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Music in 2018. The première was postponed owing to the pandemic and had to wait the following year for a streamed world première that reached a large number of listeners and viewers throughout Europe. The libretto [in English] was curated by Jakob Holtze and is made of fragments of the Gospels of Matthew and John, traditional mass texts, as well as poetry by six authors, three of them women. In his work, Sørensen says, 'lies a love passion. Not only Christ's love declaration to all humankind, through crucifixion and resurrection, but also a simple and beautiful love. The passion for the people we love.' Sørensen's St. Matthew Passion is performed by the Norwegian Soloists' Choir and Ensemble Allegria under the direction of Grete Pedersen, a musical partnership that has resulted in several award-winning recordings for BIS over the years. Details 1. I. in Veils of Mist 2. II. Betania 3. III. Psalm 4. IV. Wild Nights 5. V. Crucifixus 6. VI. Lament 7. VII. Tenebrae 8. VIII. Magdalena 9. IX. the Shore Again, Galilee 10. X. Into the Mist