Soprano Lise Davidsen and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, two Norwegian artists who’ve risen to the highest of the classical tune global, have collaborated for the primary time on their new album, that includes songs through Norway’s largest composer Edvard Grieg, out now. Gramophone described the album, which is their Recording of the Month for January 2022, as, “A surprising show of vary and technical regulate …An impressive liberate.” Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes will carry out songs from their Grieg album on their Ecu excursion in January.

The soprano with a “one-in-a-million voice”

Few younger singers have won such important acclaim as Lise Davidsen who has been hailed through The New York Occasions because the soprano with a “one-in-a-million voice”. Since successful Plácido Domingo’s Operalia and Queen Sonja competitions in 2015, she has starred in main roles on the global’s largest opera homes and has launched two UK Classical Number one albums – her self-titled debut album of Strauss and Wagner songs and her 2nd studio album, Beethoven • Wagner • Verdi. Her compatriot, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, has been praised through The Wall Boulevard Magazine as, “one of the proficient musicians of his era.”

Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes immersed themselves in tune this is central to their nation’s musical id and recorded their album, Edvard Grieg, within the Norwegian the town of Bodø within the Arctic Circle. “Everybody in Norway is aware of this tune,” defined Lise Davidsen. “I’m very acutely aware of the conventions of the way it ‘must’ be finished and through whom. This venture was once about being attentive to the tune on our personal phrases, looking for our Grieg sound.”

Options Grieg’s best track cycle Haugtussa

Haugtussa, Grieg’s best track cycle, bureaucracy the centrepiece of the album and the pivotal track is ‘Møte’ (which kind of interprets as a gathering, or an come across). “My running identify for the album was once Møte,” defined Lise Davidsen. “The track exemplifies the entire venture: Leif Ove and I assembly musically for the primary time, finding this repertoire and dealing in combination on Grieg’s tune was once itself a singular, emotional assembly for me.”

The album additionally comprises Six Songs, the place the affect of Norwegian people melodies is obviously heard, and the German-language 5 Poems which demonstrates Grieg’s mastery of a extra continental option to Lied in addition to his expressive vary.

Lise Davidsen mentioned, “I’m very pleased with this all-Norwegian album. I am hoping other people experience being attentive to it, and I look ahead to sharing it with audiences world wide.”

Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes will carry out repertoire from their Grieg album, at the side of songs through Strauss and Wagner, on their Ecu excursion in January 2022:

6 January: Berlin (Staatsoper Unter den Linden)
8 January: Madrid (Teatro Actual)
9 January: Munich (Bayerische Staatsoper)
11 January: Vienna (Wiener Konzerthaus)
13 January: London (Barbican)

Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes’ new album Edvard Grieg may also be purchased right here.

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