Unravel Tradition Tone Kummervold
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Album-Release:
2024
HRA-Release:
22.11.2024
Label: Simax Classics
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Artist: Tone Kummervold
Composer: Eva Holm Foosnaes (1983), Alf Hurum (1882-1972), John Ireland (1879-1962), Missy Mazzoli (1980), Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936), Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
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- Eva Holm Foosnæs (b. 1983): Indian Love Songs:
- 1 Foosnæs: Indian Love Songs: I. Indian Love Songs 05:08
- 2 Foosnæs: Indian Love Songs: II. In the Bazaar of Hyderabad 04:13
- 3 Foosnæs: Indian Love Songs: III. Song of a dream 04:23
- John Ireland (1879 - 1962): Earth’s Call (A Sylvan Rhapsody):
- 4 Ireland: Earth’s Call (A Sylvan Rhapsody) 05:01
- Alf Hurum (1882- 1972): Blonde nætter:
- 5 Hurum: Blonde nætter 03:47
- Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936): Il Tramonto:
- 6 Respighi: Il Tramonto 14:54
- Missy Mazzoli (b. 1980): Angela’s Confessional from The Listeners:
- 7 Mazzoli: Angela’s Confessional from The Listeners 04:07
- Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950): I’m a stranger here myself:
- 8 Weill: I’m a stranger here myself 03:27
- Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959): Xangô:
- 9 Villa-Lobos: Xangô 01:16
Info for Unravel Tradition
"Die gefeierte norwegische Mezzosopranistin Tone Kummervold, deren bemerkenswertes Talent das Publikum sowohl im eigenen Land als auch auf der internationalen Bühne in seinen Bann gezogen hat, wird ihr mit Spannung erwartetes Debütalbum Unravel Tradition bei Simax veröffentlichen.
Bekannt für ihre unvergesslichen Auftritte an der Norwegischen Nationaloper und dem Norwegischen Ballett, ihre dynamische Zusammenarbeit mit den Osloer Philharmonikern und herausragende internationale Auftritte mit dem Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France und der Prager Staatsoper, bietet Kummervolds Debütalbum ein überzeugendes Schaufenster ihrer künstlerischen Vielseitigkeit.
Ein echtes Highlight des Albums ist eine Weltpremiere, die Eva Holm Foosnæs speziell für sie geschrieben hat. Der neu komponierte Liederzyklus „Indian Love Songs“ der norwegischen Komponistin Eva Holm Foosnæs ist auf Gedichte der indischen Dichterin und politischen Aktivistin Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949) vertont. Mit den Worten der Komponistin selbst: „Dieses Werk ist eine musikalische Hommage an Sarojini Naidu. Es soll den farbenfrohen und singbaren Charakter des Textes widerspiegeln und gleichzeitig Elemente einer traditionelleren Liedform einbeziehen.“
Eine weitere bedeutende Komposition auf dem Album ist Angela's Confessional, eine Arie aus der Oper The Listeners, komponiert von der Grammy-nominierten Missy Mazzoli und dem Librettisten Royce Vavrek. Die Arie entstand in einem Anfall von Kreativität nur drei Wochen vor der Weltpremiere der Oper an der Norwegischen Nationaloper und dem Norwegischen Nationalballett im Jahr 2022 und wurde speziell für Kummervolds Stimme geschrieben. Dieses Stück webt zusammen mit den anderen Stücken des Albums einen lebendigen Teppich aus klassischer Vokalmusik und zeigt Tones Hingabe an das Erforschen und Experimentieren in einer dynamischen Musiklandschaft."
Tone Kummervold, Mezzosopran
Erik Jensen, Klavier
Vertavo String Quartet
Tone Kummervold
made her debut at the Norwegian National Opera in 2009 and became a permanent member of the soloist ensemble in the 2012/2013 season. Here she has sung the title roles in Carmen and La Cenerentola, and a number of other major roles such as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Olga in Eugene Onegin, Mary in The Flying Dutchman, Niklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann, Flora in La Traviata, Varvara in Katia Kabanova, Sonetka in Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk, Polina/Daphne in The Queen of Spades, La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi, Clothilde in Norma, The Abbess in Suor Angelica and Mother in Hansel and Gretel.
Her latest roles include the 1st maid in Elektra, Maddalena in Rigoletto, and Angela in Missy Mazzoli's newly written work The Listeners, which premiered at the Oslo Operahouse in the autumn of 2022. About the latter, Hild Borchgrevink wrote in Dagsavisen: «The orchestra suddenly has to listen and follow, and that opens up both the music, the performance and the role of the psychiatrist's partner Angela.»
For her performance as Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera, she received the following acclaim from NRK's reviewer: "Mezzo-soprano Tone Kummervold, on the other hand, owns the stage from the first note in the role of the scary fortune-teller Ulrica. She convinces with a punch in the deep register and effortless top notes.»
She has also excelled in recent works, such as Le Grand Macabre, Knut Vaage's opera Khairos, Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin, Synne Skouen's opera Ballerina, and Wozzeck.
In 2022, she made her debut at the State Opera in Prague as La Morte in the critically acclaimed opera Flammen by Erwin Schulhoff.
Kummervold sang in the Norwegian National Opera's concert version of Irgens-Jensen's Heimferd, was a vocal soloist with the Opera Orchestra in Mahler's 3rd Symphony and in the collaboration of DNO&B and the Oslo Philharmonic on Mahler's 8th Symphony.
After Verdi's Requiem with the Oslo Philharmonic, Aksel Dalmo Tollåli wrote in Aftenposten: "Mezzo-soprano Tone Kummervold sings the great aria 'Liber scriptus' with Old Testament authority and lots of power in the entire register. She recently made a big impression as the fortune teller Ulrica in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera in the Norwegian National Opera, and continues to impress as a Verdi mezzo."
She has done several other opera roles at home and abroad. Her warm, unique sound has also led her to concert engagements with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Broadcasting Orchestra and the Filarmonica Romana in Italy. In 2021 she made her debut in Paris with the Philharmonique de Radio France in Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
«A warm, unique sound» – this is how Tone Kummervold's voice is described by her former teacher and one of Norway's best-known opera singers, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz.
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