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Henning Kraggerud Christian

Born in in 1973, the Norwegian violinist studied with and Emanuel Hurwitz and is a recipient of ’s prestigious Grieg Prize, the SINDING Prize and the Sibelius Prize. He is a professor at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, and appears as a soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. He has enjoyed successful artistic collaborations with many conductors including Marek Janowski, Ivan Fischer, Paavo Music for Violin and • 2 Berglund, Kirill Petrenko, Yakov Kreizberg, Mariss Jansons, Stephane Denève and Kurt Sanderling. A committed chamber musician, Henning Kraggerud also performs Sonate im alten Stil, Op. 99 • Romances • Waltzes both on violin and on viola at major international festivals, collaborating with musicians such as Stephen Kovacevich, Kathryn Stott, , Jeffrey Kahane, Truls Mørk and . His recordings include an acclaimed release of the Henning Kraggerud, Violin complete Unaccompanied Violin Sonatas of Ysaÿe for Simax, and he is a winner of the Spellemann CD Award. His recordings for Naxos include Grieg’s Violin Sonatas (8.553904) and Norwegian Favourites (8.554497) for violin and orchestra. He plays a Christian Ihle Hadland, Piano 1744 Guarneri del Gesù instrument (violin bow: Niels Jørgen Røine, Oslo 2003), provided by Dextra Musica AS, a company founded by Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR. Christian Ihle Hadland

Christian Ihle Hadland was born in Stavanger in 1983. He received his first lessons at the age of eight and at the age of eleven was enrolled at the Rogaland Music Conservatory, later studying with Jiri Hlinka, the teacher of among others Leif Ove Andsnes, at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo. He has made his mark in both national and international venues, and is today considered one of the finest Norwegian classical pianists. He has played with all the major Norwegian symphony orchestras, and has been invited to play with orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and the Czech Radio Orchestra. Christian Ihle Hadland is a highly sought-after chamber musician, and has appeared several times in prestigious festivals, including the Risør Festival of Chamber Music, the Bergen International Festival and Kissinger Sommer in Bad Kissingen. He has collaborated with, among others, Janine Jansen, Henning Kraggerud, Lars Anders Tomter, Truls Mørk, Clemens Hagen, Christian Poltera, Renée Fleming and Ivry Gitlis.

Thanks to Øyvind Norheim, The Norwegian Music Collection, The National Library of Norway, to Ole Martin Hadland, and to artist manager Laila Nordø for co-ordinating the recording.

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Christian Sinding (1856-1941) to Sinding. A major event during his career, attracting Why is Sinding’s music no longer performed? Music for Violin and Piano • 2 huge attention, was his début as a a cabaret composer at Together with Grieg, he was Norway’s most famous the age of almost seventy. The song bearing the highly composer, played and celebrated all over Europe. upper-class homes were common. This created a market incorrect title “Kokain” fully revealed that Sinding was The explanation is obvious. Thanks to the for piano pieces, songs and similar compositions. not stuck in old conventional ways, and still possessed Norwegian baritone Per Vollestad’s superb Sinding Sinding’s publishers realised this, and strongly an obstinate, rebellious attitude. biography, the official view has been revised. This encouraged him to increase the production of songs and It was, indeed, only a few years earlier, that Sinding version claims that after 9th April 1940, Sinding short instrumental works. Sinding disliked this, and this for the very first time acquired a permanent address. volunteered his services to the occupying German can also explain the great fluctuations in his work, but at Having spent most of his life in hotels and boarding- forces, paying tribute to the German invasion of least provides more than enough material to fill two CDs houses, he now moved to a Norwegian grace-and-favour Norway, and that he applied to be a member of the with fine music. residence, Grotten. Owned by the Norwegian state, it is German National Socialist Party. In view of his stay of The Prelude in G major, Op. 43, No. 3, reveals given as a permanent residence to a person specifically some forty years in , this certainly could make Sinding’s ability to create an unbroken chain of melody bestowed this honour by the King of Norway. sense, but the reality is quite different. On the day of the played by the violin, accompanied by a sparkling piano A glance at Eastern Europe might be traced in German invasion, Sinding was interviewed on Swedish part. Perhaps these were written in the aftermath of Sinding’s Elegie in D minor, Op. 61, No. 2, composed radio. Being nearly deaf and suffering from senile Frühlingsrauschen (The Rustle of Spring). Sinding’s simultaneously with the already mentioned Ballade. The dementia, he was still severely upset by the events of the most famous work was published a few years earlier, but full and expressive piano part brings to mind Russia and day; he could hardly believe the Germans were stayed popular for years. This composition was Sergey Rachmaninov. responsible for the invasion. The application was never published by a great range of publishing houses both in The last piece included is Sinding’s final work for signed by Sinding himself, and Reichscommisar Europe and America, and was widely performed. Owing violin and piano, Abendstimmung, Op. 120a. Similar to Terboven was supposed to take care of the payment. to the absence of satisfactory laws of copyright, Sinding the Romance mentioned above, this is a refined piece, Consequently Sinding was registered as a member, made little from all these performances and sales, and in originally written for orchestra. New forms can be heard without his conscious assent. consequence became a spokesman for the rights of – the slow introduction reveals a hint of impressionism, The time has come to be rid of historical delusions, composers to derive income from their work. followed by musical colours similar to those of his and to restore Sinding to fame and honour. He remains, All his life Sinding composed in a late-romantic contemporaries Gabriel Fauré and Gustav Mahler, but without doubt, one of Norway’s most prominent style. This was heavily criticized, and he was blamed for the distinguishing features of Sinding are easily personalities and it is hoped this recording will help to not developing or expanding his musical language. recognisable, sensitive and sweet unbroken melodic place him again in his proper position in the history of Perhaps he wished to avoid this when he wrote his lines and lively harmonies. his country and its music. Sonate im alten Stil, Op. 99. Except the title, little of this piece reminds us of earlier times. It contains an Christian Ihle Hadland The Norwegian composer was born in innovative fourth movement with the main part in 5/4 English translation: Christine Ihle in Southern Norway in 1856, but moved at and a middle part in 7/4. Simultaneously, Sinding wrote the age of five to Oslo, where he lived until he headed one of his many Romances. The Romance in D major, for the famous Conservatory at the age of Op. 100, was originally for violin and orchestra, but the eighteen. Sinding spent several periods in Germany, and arrangement for piano and violin is by the composer. though he was considered as a more than fair performer Sinding returns to melancholy in Abendlied, Op. 89, both as a violinist and a pianist, he realised at an early No. 3, and Romance in E minor, Op. 30. They both have stage that being a performer would lead nowhere. As his an element of folk style, but are more Nordic in career as a conductor also failed, Sinding became one of expression than purely Norwegian. The first part of the the very few composers subsisting purely from writing Ballade in C minor, Op. 61, No. 3, brings us nearer to music. This can also be seen in his compositions, which the Balkans than the peaceful Scandinavia. are perfectly suited to a time when private concerts in Experimenting with new forms, however, was not new

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Christian Sinding (1856-1941) to Sinding. A major event during his career, attracting Why is Sinding’s music no longer performed? Music for Violin and Piano • 2 huge attention, was his début as a a cabaret composer at Together with Grieg, he was Norway’s most famous the age of almost seventy. The song bearing the highly composer, played and celebrated all over Europe. upper-class homes were common. This created a market incorrect title “Kokain” fully revealed that Sinding was The explanation is obvious. Thanks to the for piano pieces, songs and similar compositions. not stuck in old conventional ways, and still possessed Norwegian baritone Per Vollestad’s superb Sinding Sinding’s publishers realised this, and strongly an obstinate, rebellious attitude. biography, the official view has been revised. This encouraged him to increase the production of songs and It was, indeed, only a few years earlier, that Sinding version claims that after 9th April 1940, Sinding short instrumental works. Sinding disliked this, and this for the very first time acquired a permanent address. volunteered his services to the occupying German can also explain the great fluctuations in his work, but at Having spent most of his life in hotels and boarding- forces, paying tribute to the German invasion of least provides more than enough material to fill two CDs houses, he now moved to a Norwegian grace-and-favour Norway, and that he applied to be a member of the with fine music. residence, Grotten. Owned by the Norwegian state, it is German National Socialist Party. In view of his stay of The Prelude in G major, Op. 43, No. 3, reveals given as a permanent residence to a person specifically some forty years in Germany, this certainly could make Sinding’s ability to create an unbroken chain of melody bestowed this honour by the King of Norway. sense, but the reality is quite different. On the day of the played by the violin, accompanied by a sparkling piano A glance at Eastern Europe might be traced in German invasion, Sinding was interviewed on Swedish part. Perhaps these were written in the aftermath of Sinding’s Elegie in D minor, Op. 61, No. 2, composed radio. Being nearly deaf and suffering from senile Frühlingsrauschen (The Rustle of Spring). Sinding’s simultaneously with the already mentioned Ballade. The dementia, he was still severely upset by the events of the most famous work was published a few years earlier, but full and expressive piano part brings to mind Russia and day; he could hardly believe the Germans were stayed popular for years. This composition was Sergey Rachmaninov. responsible for the invasion. The application was never published by a great range of publishing houses both in The last piece included is Sinding’s final work for signed by Sinding himself, and Reichscommisar Europe and America, and was widely performed. Owing violin and piano, Abendstimmung, Op. 120a. Similar to Terboven was supposed to take care of the payment. to the absence of satisfactory laws of copyright, Sinding the Romance mentioned above, this is a refined piece, Consequently Sinding was registered as a member, made little from all these performances and sales, and in originally written for orchestra. New forms can be heard without his conscious assent. consequence became a spokesman for the rights of – the slow introduction reveals a hint of impressionism, The time has come to be rid of historical delusions, composers to derive income from their work. followed by musical colours similar to those of his and to restore Sinding to fame and honour. He remains, All his life Sinding composed in a late-romantic contemporaries Gabriel Fauré and Gustav Mahler, but without doubt, one of Norway’s most prominent style. This was heavily criticized, and he was blamed for the distinguishing features of Sinding are easily personalities and it is hoped this recording will help to not developing or expanding his musical language. recognisable, sensitive and sweet unbroken melodic place him again in his proper position in the history of Perhaps he wished to avoid this when he wrote his lines and lively harmonies. his country and its music. Sonate im alten Stil, Op. 99. Except the title, little of this piece reminds us of earlier times. It contains an Christian Ihle Hadland The Norwegian composer Christian Sinding was born in innovative fourth movement with the main part in 5/4 English translation: Christine Ihle Kongsberg in Southern Norway in 1856, but moved at and a middle part in 7/4. Simultaneously, Sinding wrote the age of five to Oslo, where he lived until he headed one of his many Romances. The Romance in D major, for the famous Leipzig Conservatory at the age of Op. 100, was originally for violin and orchestra, but the eighteen. Sinding spent several periods in Germany, and arrangement for piano and violin is by the composer. though he was considered as a more than fair performer Sinding returns to melancholy in Abendlied, Op. 89, both as a violinist and a pianist, he realised at an early No. 3, and Romance in E minor, Op. 30. They both have stage that being a performer would lead nowhere. As his an element of folk style, but are more Nordic in career as a conductor also failed, Sinding became one of expression than purely Norwegian. The first part of the the very few composers subsisting purely from writing Ballade in C minor, Op. 61, No. 3, brings us nearer to music. This can also be seen in his compositions, which the Balkans than the peaceful Scandinavia. are perfectly suited to a time when private concerts in Experimenting with new forms, however, was not new

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Henning Kraggerud Christian

Born in Oslo in 1973, the Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud studied with Camilla Wicks and Emanuel Hurwitz and is a recipient of Norway’s prestigious Grieg Prize, the SINDING Ole Bull Prize and the Sibelius Prize. He is a professor at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, and appears as a soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. He has enjoyed successful artistic collaborations with many conductors including Marek Janowski, Ivan Fischer, Paavo Music for Violin and Piano • 2 Berglund, Kirill Petrenko, Yakov Kreizberg, Mariss Jansons, Stephane Denève and Kurt Sanderling. A committed chamber musician, Henning Kraggerud also performs Sonate im alten Stil, Op. 99 • Romances • Waltzes both on violin and on viola at major international festivals, collaborating with musicians such as Stephen Kovacevich, Kathryn Stott, Leif Ove Andsnes, Jeffrey Kahane, Truls Mørk and Martha Argerich. His recordings include an acclaimed release of the Henning Kraggerud, Violin complete Unaccompanied Violin Sonatas of Ysaÿe for Simax, and he is a winner of the Spellemann CD Award. His recordings for Naxos include Grieg’s Violin Sonatas (8.553904) and Norwegian Favourites (8.554497) for violin and orchestra. He plays a Christian Ihle Hadland, Piano 1744 Guarneri del Gesù instrument (violin bow: Niels Jørgen Røine, Oslo 2003), provided by Dextra Musica AS, a company founded by Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR. Christian Ihle Hadland

Christian Ihle Hadland was born in Stavanger in 1983. He received his first lessons at the age of eight and at the age of eleven was enrolled at the Rogaland Music Conservatory, later studying with Jiri Hlinka, the teacher of among others Leif Ove Andsnes, at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo. He has made his mark in both national and international venues, and is today considered one of the finest Norwegian classical pianists. He has played with all the major Norwegian symphony orchestras, and has been invited to play with orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and the Czech Radio Orchestra. Christian Ihle Hadland is a highly sought-after chamber musician, and has appeared several times in prestigious festivals, including the Risør Festival of Chamber Music, the Bergen International Festival and Kissinger Sommer in Bad Kissingen. He has collaborated with, among others, Janine Jansen, Henning Kraggerud, Lars Anders Tomter, Truls Mørk, Clemens Hagen, Christian Poltera, Renée Fleming and Ivry Gitlis.

Thanks to Øyvind Norheim, The Norwegian Music Collection, The National Library of Norway, to Ole Martin Hadland, and to artist manager Laila Nordø for co-ordinating the recording.

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ui o Violin and Piano • 2 Music for (1856-1941) Violin and Piano • 2 Music for Music for Violin and Piano • 2 1 Prélude, Op. 43, No. 3 3:57 Sonate im alten Stil, Op. 99 17:32 2 Romance in D major, 6 I. Marcato 3:01 Op. 100 9:10 7 II. Andante doloroso 3:58 8 III. Menuetto 3:28 9 3 Abendlied, Op. 89, No. 3 2:30 IV. Allegretto 3:34 www.naxos.com Disc made in Canada. Printed and assembled USA. Booklet notes in English Naxos Rights International Ltd. ൿ 0 V. Un poco maestoso 3:31 2008 & 4 Rustle of Spring (piano solo), ! Elegy in D minor, Op. 32, No. 3 2:56 Op. 61, No. 2 3:17 Ꭿ @ Ballade, Op. 61, No. 3 7:00 2009 5 Romance in E minor, # Abendstimmung, Op. 30 4:57 Op. 120a 7:04 Henning Kraggerud, Violin • Christian Ihle Hadland, Piano

Recorded at Old Fredrikstad Church, Fredrikstad, Norway, from 20th to 25th November, 2006 8.572255 Producer: Krzysztof Drab • Engineer: Arne Akselberg 8.572255 Booklet notes: Christian Ihle Hadland • Publishers: Wilhelm Hansen, Leipzig (tracks 1, 3); Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig (tracks 2, 6-10, 13); C.F. Peters, Leipzig (tracks 4, 5, 11, 12) Cover photograph: Red Sunset in the Fjords by Laila Roberg (iStockphoto.com)