![Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Eivind Ringstad – Walton: Viola Concerto & Sinding: Suite In Alten Still (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/04/ygz5xft4fwsha_600.md.jpg)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Eivind Ringstad – Walton: Viola Concerto & Sinding: Suite In Alten Still (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Viola player Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad is the latest talent to emerge from a new, golden generation of Scandinavian musicians. He made his debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Eivind Aadland in 2013, and has since been travelling all around the world, performing in prestigious festivals and concert venues; he is a national favourite.
![Engegård Quartet – Johan Kvandal: Complete String Quartets (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/02/20/ccg6uw51t058b_600.md.jpg)
Engegård Quartet – Johan Kvandal: Complete String Quartets (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]
Johan Kvandal’s string quartets nos. 1–3 have already been recorded, but here we are also introduced to his other works for this classical ensemble. The Engegård Quartet are ideal interpreters of these often challenging works spanning almost four decades of the composer’s life. Thus they show the artistic development of one of the foremost Norwegian composers of the post-war generation.
![Engegård Quartet – Mozart: String Quartets – Dedicated to Haydn, Vol. 2 (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/10/f32d2dkwvruma_600.md.jpg)
Engegård Quartet – Mozart: String Quartets – Dedicated to Haydn, Vol. 2 (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]
With this release, the Engegard Quartet completes its recordings of the six string quartets that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dedicated to his paternal friend Joseph Haydn. Written in Vienna in Mozart’s “mature” years – from age 25 until he died 36 years old in 1791 – they are a gift to a friend that hardly has its equal. He worked on them alongside many other works from 1782 to 1785 and proudly presented them to friends and colleagues, often in his own home. His own son believed he would have become immortal had he written nothing else.
![Elisabeth Holmertz – Henrik Hellstenius: Places of Sounds and Words (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/11/om7la0f9mm11a_600.md.jpg)
Elisabeth Holmertz – Henrik Hellstenius: Places of Sounds and Words (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]
Places of Sounds and Words is a work for vocalists, ensemble, and sounds from the “real” world: from parks, squares, stairways, conversations, and arguments. Music, texts and sounds of reality are combined to form brief music–theatrical encounters that touch on the subject of how we are present in the world yet do not participate in it.
![Ensemble Allegria, Maria Angelika Carlsen, Berit Cardas, Marthe Husum – Mozart, Schoenberg (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/10/qkwhquob8je7b_600.md.jpg)
Ensemble Allegria, Maria Angelika Carlsen, Berit Cardas, Marthe Husum – Mozart, Schoenberg (2017) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
Two young composers from what today is Austria are featured on this recording. The works, separated in time by 120 years, are contrasting in many respects — in form, mood and artistic aim. In music history we speak of several Viennese “schools”, and here the differences between them are obvious. They are similar only in wealth of imagination and quality.
![Daniel Sæther – Vintersong – Vaage/Vogt/Karlsen (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/10/19/polivrjem0lka_600.md.jpg)
Daniel Sæther – Vintersong – Vaage/Vogt/Karlsen (2022) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]
All the music on this CD has the countertenor as a common denominator. There is something beautifully unsettling about hearing a male singing in the register of a female singer. It throws us back to a, fortunately, bygone time when the same vocal properties were reached by the barbaric practice that produced the male “castrati”. Nowadays, male singers who wish to sing in this register develop their falsetto and head voice techniques in a natural way.
![Caroline Eidsten Dahl – Telemann: 12 Solo Fantasias (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/05/checjz8047ffa_600.md.jpg)
Caroline Eidsten Dahl – Telemann: 12 Solo Fantasias (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]
Minuets, sarabands, bourrées, gigues, gavottes, hornpipes and polonaises. Like many other composers, Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) used dance as a foundation for his compositions and this is no more evident than in his fantasias for flute, where we find several examples. Although the music is written for neither the ballroom, theatre nor opera, references to the baroque French court dance are clear and abundant. The music therefore invites something more than a pure listening experience, also evoking movement and corporeal responses.
![Caroline Eidsten Dahl, Kate Hearne, Christian Kjos – Telemann Recorder Sonatas (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/11/05/mxj2up6jh4iwb_600.md.jpg)
Caroline Eidsten Dahl, Kate Hearne, Christian Kjos – Telemann Recorder Sonatas (2019) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]
Caroline Eidsten Dahl (b. 1980) is one of Norway’s most active recorder players and specialises in baroque repertoire. She has performed at numerous festivals including the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the Early Music Festival in London and the Stockholm Early Music Festival.
![Berit Norbakken Solset, Gro Bergrabb – Gebete für Mitgefangene (2019) [FLAC 24bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/01/raiav88hb4m9b_600.md.jpg)
Berit Norbakken Solset, Gro Bergrabb – Gebete für Mitgefangene (2019) [FLAC 24bit, 192 kHz]
Is there a connection between the prayers of a German prisoner during the Second World War and the hymns of northern Norway?
Can a person lament her suffering and still trust that God does not place a greater burden on her than she can bear?
How is the building of a cathedral in the far north of Norway related to the great drama of world history?
“Gebete für Mitgefangene” presents a wide range, from Bonhoeffer’s texts and Nystedt’s music to the simple hymn verses with which each movement ends. To exist in the tension between life’s painful side and trust in a caring God is a fundamental experience that is reflected in the religious music on this recording.
She is accompanied by organist Gro Bergrabb (b. 1979) who received a degree in church music from the Norwegian Academy of Music as a student of Professor Jon Laukvik and who is very active in her native Norway as a performer.
![Beate Mordal, Jeremy Carpenter, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner – Arne Nordheim: The Tempest (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/03/29/ybgr3omq5ajca_600.md.jpg)
Beate Mordal, Jeremy Carpenter, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner – Arne Nordheim: The Tempest (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]
Arne Nordheim was Norway’s most significant and respected composer until his death in 2010, and one of the few figures in contemporary western music who proved himself able to move beyond traditional harmonic relationships while maintaining a distinct ability to communicate widely through his striking, physical music.
![Bragernes kirkes ungdomskor – Colours of Christmas (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/09/10/w95xdqc7tztyc_600.md.jpg)
Bragernes kirkes ungdomskor – Colours of Christmas (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]
The first recording of the very new SSAA version of “I Will Light Candles This Christmas” is released today!
It’s the first single from the upcoming album with Bragernes Kirkes Ungdomskor (Bragernes Church’s Youth Choir) and conductor Beate Strømme Fevang on LAWO Classics.
![Bjørn Boysen – César Franck: Organ Works (2017) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/01/15/dh7w99rj1nrac_600.md.jpg)
Bjørn Boysen – César Franck: Organ Works (2017) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]
At the time César Franck was born in Liège, Belgium, on 10 December 1822, Beethoven had not yet composed his 9th symphony, or his last string quartets. When Franck died at the age of 67 in 1890, Claude Debussy had already made his mark with works including the Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire; it is perhaps not surprising, therefore, that a composer whose life spanned such extremities, had trouble finding his own voice.
![Audun Sandvik – Trace of Lament (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/06/26/i8xbpj2fbyzfb_600.md.jpg)
Audun Sandvik – Trace of Lament (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 192 kHz]
Trace of Lament features 5 new compositions for Cello and Orchestra by Gaute Storaas, Henrik Skram and Ginge Anvik. The album from Lawo Classics features cellist Audun Sandvik, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra conducted by Thomas Klug and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Per Kristian Skalstad.
![Atle Sponberg – Tango 4 Strings (2021) [FLAC 24bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/07/10/sidwqpfzs53ia_600.md.jpg)
Atle Sponberg – Tango 4 Strings (2021) [FLAC 24bit, 192 kHz]
“Tango: a dance from the heart – Tango is a man and a woman in the search for each other, in the search for an embrace, a way of being together.” “The tango comes from inland areas and the coast, from seaman’s shanties. It comes from the African slaves and the Andalucian Gypsies. It has incorporated the guitar from Spain, the accordion from Germany, and the mandolin and the aria from Italy.
![Anders Eidsten Dahl – Mozart and the Organ (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/09/15/dg70rvrr7fr7a_600.md.jpg)
Anders Eidsten Dahl – Mozart and the Organ (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]
In a letter to his father Leopold, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote of his relationship to the organ: “In my eyes and ears, the organ is the queen of instruments.” In spite of his enthusiasm for the instrument and the fact that Mozart himself liked to play the organ, he did not compose much music for “the queen of instruments”. The organists of the day improvised when they played for mass, and the organ at that time was not a concert instrument in need of a wide-ranging repertoire.
![Anders Eidsten Dahl – Herman Vogt: Light Shall Shine (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/04/19/vmgl8queqfqmb_600.md.jpg)
Anders Eidsten Dahl – Herman Vogt: Light Shall Shine (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 192 kHz]
On the CD “Light Shall Shine” organist Anders Eidsten Dahl performs three works of Herman Vogt on the magnificent Carsten Lund organ in Bragernes Church. The release is the result of a collaboration over more than ten years between the performer and the composer. The music spans a wide palette in its tonal language, everything from simple and naivist music to complex polyphony.
![Amalie Stalheim, Christian Ihle Hadland – Stravinsky, Poulenc & Debussy: Works for Cello and Piano (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/09/15/jzrdflvcfn8jc_600.md.jpg)
Amalie Stalheim, Christian Ihle Hadland – Stravinsky, Poulenc & Debussy: Works for Cello and Piano (2023) [FLAC 24 bit, 192 kHz]
Award winning cellist Amalie Stalheim (b. 1993) is known for her technical brilliance, personal expression and unique tone and has appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Oulu Symphony Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Christian Ihle Hadland has estab-lished himself as a true craftsman of the piano, a musician whose del-icate, refined playing and individu-al touch have led him to the most prestigious stages in the world. Christian came to international at-tention in 2011 as a BBC New Gen-eration Artist. As an NGA he per-formed with all four of the BBC’s symphony orchestras and broad-cast solo and chamber recitals for the corporation in London. He also made his debut at the BBC Proms in London where he was praised by critics for his ‘pearly’ and ‘otherwordly’ sound.
![Alpaca Ensemble – Rehnqvist & Lindquist (2021) [FLAC 24bit, 192 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/06/12/txp6dl9ilzwla_600.md.jpg)
Alpaca Ensemble – Rehnqvist & Lindquist (2021) [FLAC 24bit, 192 kHz]
This recording is a result of Alpaca Ensemble’s close collaboration with two living composers. Both write music that reflects on humanity’s place in a world profoundly greater than us. In the first work on the recording, Karin Rehnqvist takes the listener into outer space, while on the last track Ellen Lindquist paints us a vast landscape.