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NY MUSIKK FOR MANNSKOR Christiania Mannskors nye CD, «Something New», er intet mindre enn historiens aller første CD-utgivelse av ny, norsk musikk for mannskor. Verkene på CD-en er skrevet de siste 40 år, og utgivelsen reflekterer Christiania Mannskors ønske om å fornye norsk mannskorsang og tilgjengeliggjøre norsk mannskor-musikk for flere, både nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Vi blir presentert for musikk som spenner over et vidt spekter; fra melodiøse, gregoriansk-inspirerte hymner via nyskapende korklang, basert på det beste av norsk mannskortradisjon, til et mer moderne og instrumentelt uttrykk. Verkene på CD-en er skrevet av de norske samtidskomponistene Jon Mostad, Bjørn Kruse, Henrik Ødegaard, Kjell Habbestad, Wolfgang Plagge, Knut Nystedt, Carl-Andreas Næss og Kjell Mørk, med tekster av blant andre William Shakespeare, Rolf Jacobsen og Henrik Ibsen. Christiania Mannskor ble startet i 2009 og består av både profesjonelle og semiprofesjonelle sangere under ledelse av dirigent Marius Skjølaas. Koret arbeider målbevisst for å fornye mannskorsangen i Norge, og er en spydspiss i dette arbeidet i samarbeid med norske komponister. Koret har opptrådt både på Nobels fredsprismiddag og på arrangementer for storting og regjering. «Something New» er den første i en serie på fire CD-er på LAWO Classics, hvor titlene henspiller på ordtaket «Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue». Dirigent Marius Skjølaas er utdannet kirkemusiker med hovedfag i kordireksjon fra Norges musikkhøgskole. Han arbeider som kantor i Trefoldighets-kirken i Oslo og er kunstnerisk leder for kammerkoret Oslo Chorale Selskap. NEW MUSIC FOR MALE CHOIR “Something New”, the recent release by Christiania Mannskor, is nothing less than history’s first CD recording of new Norwegian music for male choir. The works on the CD were written over the last 40 years and reflect the desire of Christiania Mannskor to renew the male choir repertoire and make it more easily accessible for more singers, both in Oslo and throughout the country. The recording presents music spanning a broad range: from melodious Gregorian-inspired hymns via innovative choir sounds based on the best of the Norwegian choral tradition to a more modern, instrumental means of expression. The CD features works of Norwegian composers Jon Mostad, Bjørn Kruse, Henrik Ødegaard, Kjell Habbestad, Wolfgang Plagge, Knut Nystedt, Carl-Andreas Næss and Kjell Mørk, with texts by William Shakespeare, Rolf Jacobsen, and Henrik Ibsen, among others. Christiania Mannskor was founded in 2009 and comprises both professional and semi-professional singers under the leadership of conductor Marius Skjølaas. In close association with the country’s leading composers, it is spearheading the effort to revitalize the male choir tradition in Norway. The choir has performed at the Nobel Peace Prize dinner and special occasions arranged by the Norwegian Government and Parliament. “Something New” is the first in a series of four recordings on the LAWO Classics label in which the titles allude to the traditional good-luck rhyme “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.” Conductor Marius Skjølaas studied church music with a major in choral conducting at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He serves as organist and choirmaster of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Oslo and is artistic director of the chamber choir Oslo Chorale Selskap.
ANMELDELSER/REVIEWS Kveikjande klåre Christiania Mannskor: Klang! «This 'a cappella' programme is rich in creativity: poetry, music and performance meld to give a deeply satisfying and moving listening experience. A mix of secular and sacred, the texts range through the Psalms, early Christian Church devotional Latin hymns, Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Shakespeare, the King James Bible, John Northam (English translator of Ibsen) and Norwegian poets Arne Garborg (1851-1924), Ragnhild Foss (1883-1952), Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), (Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) and Egil Elseth (1927-2012). Apart from Knut Nystedt (b.1959), regarded as the grand old man of C20th music in Norway, most of the composers here will be little known outside the country. Fear not, the general harmonic idiom is tonal, and even modern harmonies caress the ears rather than being aggressive The choir has a greater number of soloists than most, and this adds individual characters with their definitive voices, providing extra emotional involvement in the poetic texts. The magnificent sound of Christiania Mannskor is partly due to the friendly acoustics of Ris Church in Oslo, a favourite venue for Norwegian recording engineers. The microphones provide a reasonably close image of the singers in Stereo so that details are not lost, lightly invested with the halo of reverberance from the church, but with 5.0 Multichannel, the venue opens up breathtakingly, with the music enveloping the listener realistically. I give Plagge the last words: "no matter what we humans think and feel about equality and evenness, every thing in us, with us, and around us is in constant flux". An exemplary choral programme which should not be missed. I can't wait for the next volume in this series.»
"El cor està format per un bon nombre de solistes, la qual cosa enriqueix exponencialment el conjunt vocal. Són, en definitiva, una autèntica suma de caràcters individuals, 24 cantants professionals, que, amb la seva impecable expressivitat, proporcionen un plus emocional als textos poètics. Les joioses cançons contagien l’oient amb la contundència d’una interpretació que transpira una voluntat de transmetre un valor líric subjectiu, propi de les seves tradicions. Les diferents obres conflueixen en un punt en comú, l’exquisidesa sonora que llueix el mestratge de Marius Skjolaas, un director que sap guiar els moments delicadament poètics amb fermesa i convicció. Un programa coral exemplar que val la pena escoltar." "This 'a cappella' programme is rich in creativity: poetry, music and performance meld to give a deeply satisfying and moving listening experience. A mix of secular and sacred, the texts range through the Psalms, early Christian Church devotional Latin hymns, Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Shakespeare, the King James Bible, John Northam (English translator of Ibsen) and Norwegian poets Arne Garborg (1851-1924), Ragnhild Foss (1883-1952), Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), (Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) and Egil Elseth (1927-2012). This 'a cappella' programme is rich in creativity: poetry, music and performance meld to give a deeply satisfying and moving listening experience. A mix of secular and sacred, the texts range through the Psalms, early Christian Church devotional Latin hymns, Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Shakespeare, the King James Bible, John Northam (English translator of Ibsen) and Norwegian poets Arne Garborg (1851-1924), Ragnhild Foss (1883-1952), Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), (Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) and Egil Elh (1927-2012). (...) An exemplary choral programme which should not be missed. I can't wait for the next volume in this series "
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