Peer Gynt (Complete Incidental Music) Soloists • Malmö Chamber Choir Malmö Symphony Orchestra • Bjarte Engeset
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570871-72 bk Grieg 8/15/08 2:26 PM Page 20 Vaarnatt og seljekall by Nicolai Astrup (1880-1928) GRIEG 2 CDs (©Sparebankstiftelsen DnB NOR, Norway); Photograph: Erik Fuglseth, Norway Peer Gynt (Complete Incidental Music) Soloists • Malmö Chamber Choir Malmö Symphony Orchestra • Bjarte Engeset Get this free download from Classicsonline! Svendsen: Norwegian Folksong: I Fjol gjaett’e Gjeitinn: Andantino Copy this Promotion Code Nax65iW92KhM and go to www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/sve12_main. Downloading Instructions 1 Log on to Classicsonline. If you do not have a Classicsonline account yet, please register at http://www.classicsonline.com/UserLogIn/SignUp.aspx. 2 Enter the Promotion Code mentioned above. 3 On the next screen, click on “Add to My Downloads”. 8.570871-72 20 570871-72 bk Grieg 8/15/08 2:26 PM Page 2 Peer Gynt Also available: Peer Gynt . Hans Jakob Sand Åse (Aase), his mother . Anne Marit Jacobsen Solveig . Isa Katharina Gericke Fiddler (Hardanger fiddle) . Gjermund Larsen Dairymaid (Herdgirl); Witch . Unni Løvlid Dairymaid (Herdgirl); Witch . Kirsten Bråten Berg Dairymaid (Herdgirl) . Lena Willemark The Mountain King (Dovre-King); Senior Troll (Courtier); The Bøyg (Voice in the Darkness); Button-moulder . Erik Hivju Anitra . Itziar M. Galdos Thief . Knut Stiklestad Fence; sings ‘Peer Gynt’s Serenade’ . Yngve A. Søberg Malmö Chamber Choir (Chorus Master: Dan-Oluf Stenlund) Boys’ and Girls’ Choruses of the Lund Cultural School (Chorus Master: Karin Fagius) Malmö Symphony Orchestra Bjarte Engeset Before a Southern Convent (Foran Sydens Kloster) 8.570236 Isa Katharina Gericke, Soprano Marianne E. Andersen, Alto Malmö Chamber Choir (women’s voices) (Chorus Master: Dan-Oluf Stenlund) Malmö Symphony Orchestra Bjarte Engeset Bergliot Bergliot . Frøydis Armand Malmö Symphony Orchestra 8.557991 Bjarte Engeset 8.570871-72 2 19 8.570871-72 570871-72 bk Grieg 8/15/08 2:26 PM Page 18 Lund School of Culture Choruses CD 1 75:58 Act IV The Lund School of Culture in Sweden has extensive choral activities for young people aged nine to nineteen, and is Peer Gynt, Op. 23 ^ Morning Mood (Morgenstemning) 4:14 the base of the lower secondary school choirs Köramellerna and Boys’ Voice. This is not the first collaboration with (Text: Henrik Ibsen) & The Thief and the Fence (Tyven og heleren) 1:25 the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Lund School of Culture; for many years the lower secondary choirs have taken * Arabian Dance (Arabisk dans) 4:47 part in the Nalle Christmas concerts. They have also performed at Malmö Opera and Music Theatre in productions Act I ( Anitra’s Dance (Anitras dans) 3:28 such as Macbeth, Othello and Dead Man Walking. Köramellerna and Boys’ Voice are conducted by Karin Fagius. ) Peer Gynt (spoken) 0:18 1 Prelude – At the Farm Wedding ¡ Peer Gynt’s Serenade (Peer Gynts serenade) 2:47 Malmö Chamber Choir (I bryllupsgården) (Forspill til Akt I) 5:12 ™ Peer Gynt and Anitra (Peer Gynt og Anitra) 3:16 2 The “Buck-ride” (“Bukkerittet”) £ Solveig’s Song (Solveigs sang) 5:11 The first concert of the Malmö Chamber Choir took place in November 1975 and Photo: Andreas Nilsson (spoken dialogue) 4:05 ¢ Peer Gynt at the Statue of Memnon was widely acclaimed in southern Sweden. Since then the choir has given about (Peer Gynt ved Memnonstøtten) 2:05 seven hundred concerts and made recordings for record companies, television and 3 Halling 1:14 radio. Most of the concerts have been given in Skåne, some thirty in Norrland and 4 Springar 2:16 more than a hundred in other parts of Sweden. In all, some hundred concerts have been given during tours in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Act II CD 2 52:06 Switzerland, Hungary, Belgium, Holland, England, Israel and the United States. There have also been a number of first performances of works specially written for 5 The Bridenapping. Ingrid’s Lament Act V Dan-Olof Stenlund and his ensemble. Over the years many choir members have been recruited from the Malmö (Bruderovet. Ingrids klage) 4:18 Academy of Music and from the Copenhagen Royal Academy of Music. After a few years in the choir several of 6 Peer Gynt (spoken) 0:36 1 Peer Gynt’s Homecoming (Peer Gynts hjemfart. them have then pursued their own careers, winning great success as soloists, conductors and church musicians. 7 Peer Gynt and the Dairymaids Stormfull aften på havet) 2:39 (Peer Gynt og seterjentene) 3:44 2 The Shipwreck (Skipsforliset) 1:27 Malmö Symphony Orchestra 8 Peer Gynt and the Woman in Green 3 Solveig sings in the Hut (Peer Gynt og Den grønnkledte) 2:23 (Solveig synger i hytten) 1:43 Founded in 1925, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra is a young and vigorous orchestra. For 9 Great men ride in style! (Peer Gynt: 4 Peer Gynt (spoken) 0:26 many years dividing its energies between opera and concerts, since 1991 the orchestra “På ridestellet skal storfolk kjendes!”) 0:19 5 Night Scene (Nattscene) 7:43 has been fully committed to symphonic repertoire, which it performs in its own concert 0 6 Peer Gynt (spoken) 1:51 hall. With a complement of a hundred musicians, the orchestra offers an exciting variety In the Hall of the Mountain King 7 Whitsun Hymn: “O Blessed Morning” of concert programmes to large and enthusiastic audiences. The main focus is on the rich (I Dovregubbens hall) 2:51 (Pinsesalme: “Velsignede morgen”) 1:26 tradition of orchestral music, with the ambition of bringing it into the future. Several ! Dance of the Mountain King’s Daughter recordings have been acclaimed internationally and rewarded with the Cannes Classical (Dans av Dovregubbens datter) 1:44 8 Peer Gynt and Solveig (spoken) 0:50 Photo: Klas Andersson Award and Diapason d’Or, with a recording of the Berwald symphonies with Sixten @ Peer Gynt chased by the Trolls 9 Solveig’s Lullaby (Solveigs vuggevise) 5:51 Ehrling receiving a Gramophone Award. The collaboration of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra with Naxos and BIS (Peer Gynt jages av troll) 3:28 has done much to enhance its international reputation. Among the orchestra’s principal conductors over the years # Peer Gynt and the Bøyg 0 may be mentioned Herbert Blomstedt, Vernon Handley, James DePreist and Paavo Järvi. Vassily Sinaisky was (Peer Gynt og Bøygen) 4:33 Before a Southern Convent appointed principal conductor in 2007. (Foran Sydens Kloster), Op. 20 9:26 (Text: Björnstjerne Björnson) Act III $ Prelude. Åse’s Death (Forspill. Åses død) 3:56 ! Bergliot, Op. 42 18:45 % Åse’s Death (Åses død) 7:47 (Text: Björnstjerne Björnson) 8.570871-72 18 3 8.570871-72 570871-72 bk Grieg 8/15/08 2:26 PM Page 4 Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Erik Hivju Peer Gynt, Op. 23 • Foran Sydens Kloster, Op. 20 • Bergliot, Op. 42 Norwegian actor Erik Hivju has performed over seventy rôles at the National Theatre in Oslo Peer Gynt: Synopsis between 1968 and 2007. In recent years he has played Dagfinn the Peasant in the Nordic co- production The Pretenders (2005) and the Old Man in Sleep (2005). Erik Hivju has also been a Act I guest actor on a host of Norwegian stages, appearing for instance as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman at Rogaland Theatre, Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck, Creon in Antigone, both at Young Peer Gynt has grown up in poverty in a Norwegian inland village. In the opening scene he tells his mother a Agder Theatre, and as the judge in Crime and Punishment at Riksteatret. In 2006 he played the fantastic tale about his dramatic encounter with a buck reindeer when out hunting in the mountains (Prelude CD 1, Dovre-Master (Old Man of the Mountains) in Bentein Baardson’s production of Peer Gynt at the Track 1 and The “Buck-ride” CD 1, Track 2). Their heated dialogue ends with Peer heaving his mother up on to the pyramids in Giza, Egypt, and in autumn 2007 appeared in Erasmus Montanus, directed by roof of the mill-house and rushing off to the wedding at Hægstad (‘Halling’ CD 1, Track 3). There he has his crucial Gábor Zsámbéki. He has also appeared in several film and television productions, including Gåten Knut Hamsun first meeting with a young woman called Solveig (‘Springar’ CD 1, Track 4). Her parents warn her to keep away (1996), Salige er de som tørster/Blessed Are Those Who Thirst (1997), Island of Darkness (1997) and Svarte from Peer, who is already at loggerheads with several of the wedding guests. The act ends with Peer slinging the penger, hvite løgner (2004). He won the ‘Amanda award’ for his contribution to Fjernsynteatret’s production of bride Ingrid over his shoulder and carrying her off into the mountains (The Bridenapping. Ingrid’s Lament CD 1, Molière’s Tartuffe. Track 5). Marianne E. Andersen Act II Born in Oslo, Marianne E. Andersen trained at London’s Royal Academy of Music where she Peer is soon bored with Ingrid; Solveig has touched him much more deeply. The country people try to hunt him graduated with the highest honours, and at the National Opera Studio. Further studies with down, and he revels in the thrill of the chase (CD 1, Track 6). On the run in the mountains, he meets three sexually teachers including Vera Rozsa in London and Ileana Cotrubas in France, have helped her gather provocative cow-girls (Peer Gynt and the Dairymaids CD 1, Track 7), and then a still more seductive creature (Peer prizes and awards of national and international status and to become a finalist in the Belvedere Gynt and the Woman in Green CD 1, Track 8). Peer and the woman in green arrive in the realm of the trolls on the International Singing Competition in Vienna.