Lament The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen, Ensemble Allegria & Grete Pedersen

• Lars Petter Hagen (b.. 1975):
• 1 Lament: No. 1, Untitled - Void - Untitled 07:25
• 2 Lament: No. 2, Void 01:51
• 3 Lament: No. 3, Lament 06:34
• Nils Henrik Asheim (b. 1960):
• 4 Muohta: No. 1, Ulahat 02:03
• 5 Muohta: No. 2, Čađgit 00:43
• 6 Muohta: No. 3, Áinnádat 00:47
• 7 Muohta: No. 4, Časttas 00:52
• 8 Muohta: No. 5, Muovllahat 01:27
• 9 Muohta: No. 6, Rádnu 00:52
• 10 Muohta: No. 7, Goahpálat 00:41
• 11 Muohta: No. 8, Veađahat 01:15
• 12 Muohta: No. 9, Doavdnji 00:54
• 13 Muohta: No. 10, Seaŋaš 01:41
• 14 Muohta: No. 11, Čiehpa 01:16
• 15 Muohta: No. 12, Skárta 01:03
• 16 Muohta: No. 13, Muohtaruivi 01:11
• 17 Muohta: No. 14, Gaskageardni 00:40
• 18 Muohta: No. 15, Jolas 00:58
• 19 Muohta: No. 16, Sabádat 01:27
• 20 Muohta: No. 17, Sievlla 00:46
• 21 Muohta: No. 18, Njeađggahat 02:05
• Arne Nordheim:
• 22 Aurora 21:27
• Total Runtime 57:58

Info for Lament

The Norwegian Soloists Choir and Grete Pedersen have made acclaimed recordings of music spanning a millennium from chants by Hildegard of Bingen (1098 1179) to the most recent compositions and in styles ranging from folk songs to Bach motets and Berios Coro. On their new album, the focus is on contemporary Norwegian music, with three works which all originate in words and challenge the relation between language and music. For his Lament from 2015, Lars Petter Hagen has chosen to set a short text by E. E. Cummings, written when the poet was 6 years old. The words of the poem are split up and stretched out into pulsating waves of grief, at once mysterious, beautiful and painful. Awarded the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2018, Muohta (Snow) consists of 18 sections, each setting a single word in Sámi, the language of the indigenous people in the north of Norway. The words are all related to snow, and composer Nils Henrik Asheim has found inspiration in how indigenous peoples live with nature, as opposed to seeking to control it.

Hans-Kristian Kjos Sørensen, percussion
Daniel Paulsen, percussion
Terje Viken, percussion
Ensemble Allegria
The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir
Grete Pedersen, conductor

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Booklet for Lament