Agathe Backer Grøndahl: Songs & Piano Works Karen Vourch & Anne Le Bozec

• Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847 - 1907): 12 Folkeviser og melodier, Op. 51:
• 1 Grøndahl: 12 Folkeviser og melodier, Op. 51: No. 6, Lasta tundittaessa 01:11
• 8 Songs, Op. 17:
• 2 Grøndahl: 8 Songs, Op. 17: No. 2, Saa lagde jeg ud 01:14
• Barnets vaardag, Op. 42:
• 3 Grøndahl: Barnets vaardag, Op. 42: No. 6, Duggdråper 00:47
• 5 Songs, Op. 46:
• 4 Grøndahl: 5 Songs, Op. 46: No. 1, Höststemning 02:24
• 10 Songs, Op. 29:
• 5 Grøndahl: 10 Songs, Op. 29: No. 3, Høst på heien 01:38
• Sydover, Op. 54:
• 6 Grøndahl: Sydover, Op. 54: No. 5, Sydens kvæld 01:23
• 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36:
• 7 Grøndahl: 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36: No. 1, Klage 01:38
• 8 Grøndahl: 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36: No. 2, Friskt Mot! 00:56
• 9 Grøndahl: 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36: No. 3, Vals 01:25
• 10 Grøndahl: 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36: No. 4, Vuggevise 01:46
• 11 Grøndahl: 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36: No. 5, Ballade 03:54
• 5 Songs, Op. 46:
• 12 Grøndahl: 5 Songs, Op. 46: No. 3, Der står en Sorg 02:00
• 4 Songs, Op. 65:
• 13 Grøndahl: 4 Songs, Op. 65: No. 1, Den vildene fugl 01:26
• 8 Songs, Op. 17:
• 14 Grøndahl: 8 Songs, Op. 17: No. 7, Sildig 02:17
• 4 Songs, Op. 65:
• 15 Grøndahl: 4 Songs, Op. 65: No. 4, Skyggekys 02:08
• 10 Sange til digte af Vilhelm Krag, Op. 31, Book I:
• 16 Grøndahl: 10 Sange til digte af Vilhelm Krag, Op. 31, Book I: No. 5, Storm 01:09
• 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36:
• 17 Grøndahl: 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36: No. 6, Ungdomssang 00:48
• 18 Grøndahl: 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36: No. 7, Laendler 01:34
• 19 Grøndahl: 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36: No. 8, Aftenvind 01:35
• 20 Grøndahl: 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36: No. 9, Sang ven Rokken 01:55
• 21 Grøndahl: 10 Fantasistykker, Op. 36: No. 10, Alfeleg 02:35
• 10 Songs, Op. 29:
• 22 Grøndahl: 10 Songs, Op. 29: No. 7, Efter storm 01:46
• Sydover, Op. 54:
• 23 Grøndahl: Sydover, Op. 54: No. 3, I passaten 01:00
• 7 Folkeviser og romanser, Op. 18:
• 24 Grøndahl: 7 Folkeviser og romanser, Op. 18: No. 2, Hvad tænker du, du stolte Høg 01:31
• 10 Sange til digte af Vilhelm Krag, Op. 31, Book II:
• 25 Grøndahl: 10 Sange til digte af Vilhelm Krag, Op. 31, Book II: No. 8, Valborgsnat 02:30
• 8 Songs, Op. 17:
• 26 Grøndahl: 8 Songs, Op. 17: No. 5, Lyse Nætter 01:43
• 6 Études de Concert, Op. 11:
• 27 Grøndahl: 6 Études de Concert, Op. 11: No. 2, in D-Flat Major 04:23
• 4 Songs, Op. 65:
• 28 Grøndahl: 4 Songs, Op. 65: No. 2, Forsilde 01:33
• 10 Songs, Op. 29:
• 29 Grøndahl: 10 Songs, Op. 29: No. 10, Sommerkveld 01:08
• 2 Sange fra havet, Op. 48:
• 30 Grøndahl: 2 Sange fra havet, Op. 48: No. 2, Underdønning 03:51
• 10 Sange til digte af Vilhelm Krag, Op. 31, Book I:
• 31 Grøndahl: 10 Sange til digte af Vilhelm Krag, Op. 31, Book I: No. 4, Middelhavsnat 02:11
• Norsk Folkeviser, Op. 34:
• 32 Grøndahl: Norsk Folkeviser, Op. 34: No. 2, Baadnlaatt 01:12
• Total Runtime 58:31

Info for Agathe Backer Grøndahl: Songs & Piano Works

Agathe Backer Grondahl is one of the most interesting figures of Norwegian Romanticism. A friend of Edvard Grieg, she was an accomplished concert performer and gave performances throughout Europe before deafness, which struck her at the age of thirty, pushed her towards teaching and composition. In this field, her favourites were the voice and the piano, to which she offered miniatures of refined song texts in which nature and the landscapes of her native Norway are often the reflection of states of mind. Her very personal imagination, imbued with a Scandinavian melancholy that is both harsh and sensitive, permeates all the pieces that Karen Vourc'h and Anne Le Bozec have brought together here.

Karen Vourc’h, soprano
Anne Le Bozec, piano

Karen Vourc’h
followed a Masters Science course in Quantum Physics at McGill / Montreal, DEA Theoretical Physics ENS Paris, before devoting herself entirely to singing (Zürich Opera-studio, CNSMDP).

She is the winner of numerous international competitions and in 2009 she won the Victoire de la Musique de la Révélation Lyrique award.

She has been invited to the greatest international stages: Royal Albert Hall (London), NHK (Tokyo), Santa Cecilia (Roma), Philarmonic of Paris, Helsinki, Köln, Saint-Petersburg, Casa da Musica (Porto), Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisboa), Palau de Arte (Barcelona), Beaux-arts (Brussels)…, Operas of Paris, Lyon, Amsterdam, Köln, Hamburg, Geneva, Lausanne, Modena, Tokyo…

She has sung under the direction of Louis Langrée, Sir John Eliott Gardiner, Kazuchi Ono, Daniel Harding, Kent Nagano, Alain Altinoglu, Michel Plasson and directors R. Carsen, K. Warlikowski, S. Braunschweig, Katie Mitchell, Barbe et Doucet…

Karen Vourc’h began her career singing Mozart, in roles such as: Pamina, Elvira, Fiordiligi, Comtessa, followed by Bizet (Micaela), Puccini (Musetta), Massenet (Manon), Verdi (Violetta), Monteverdi… She then moved to singing the repertoire of the 20th and 21st Centuries that she particularly appreciates.

She has sung and performed the role of Melisande all over the world, as well as roles in Poulenc, La Voix Humaine and Blanche de la Force (Dialogues des Carmelites), Zemlinski (Der Zwerg / L’Infante), Emilie (Saariaho)…

In concerts, she has ofter performed Ravel, Debussy, Honneger, Messiaen, Berg, Shostakovich…

She frequently collaborates with contemporary composers: particularly Kaija Saariaho (La Passion de Simone, Emilie, Quatre Instants) and Pascal Dusapin (Romeo et Juliette, Wenn du dem Wind, Canto, Wolken) but also Guillaume Connesson (Medea, Elégie de l’amour obscur), Peter Eötvös (Le Balcon), Philippe Fenelon (JJR), Mathis Nitschke (Happy! Happy!), Chaya Cernowim (Infinite Now, Award Critic 2017 Opernwelt), Pierre Bartholomée (We are eternal), Franck Krawczyk (Fosse).

Future projects include Sheherazade by Ravel, with the Orchester de Lille (J.C Casadesus), Emilie suite by K. Saariaho, in Bremen (M.Letonja), La Passion de Simone de Saariaho, with the Orchestra Filarmonica de Galicia , a recording project of previously unreleased pieces by Guillaume Connesson….

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