
Album Info
Album Veröffentlichung:
2025
HRA-Veröffentlichung:
10.10.2025
Label: Lawo Classics
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Interpret: Berit Norbakken, Arctic Philharmonic & Henning Kraggerud
Komponist: George Friedrich Handel (1685-1759), Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Tarquinio Merula (1594-1665), Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Das Album enthält Albumcover Booklet (PDF)
- George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759): Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, HWV 72:
- 1 Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, HWV 72: Verso già l'alma 05:10
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741): Cessate, omai cessate, RV 684:
- 2 Vivaldi: Cessate, omai cessate, RV 684: Ah ch'infelice sempre 05:25
- Anonymous: O Death Rock Me Asleep:
- 3 Anonymous: O Death Rock Me Asleep 04:17
- Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629:
- 4 Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: The Plaint - O let me weep 07:30
- Tarquinio Merula (1595 - 1665): Folle è ben che si crede:
- 5 Merula: Folle è ben che si crede 03:12
- Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643): Scherzi Musicali:
- 6 Monteverdi: Scherzi Musicali: Quel sguardo sdegnosetto, SV 247 02:14
- Ego flos campi, SV 301:
- 7 Monteverdi: Ego flos campi, SV 301 03:21
- Tarquinio Merula: Canzonetta Spirituale sopra alla nanna "Hor ch´è tempo di dormire":
- 8 Merula: Canzonetta Spirituale sopra alla nanna "Hor ch´è tempo di dormire" 08:16
- Henry Purcell: An Evening Hymn, Z. 193:
- 9 Purcell: An Evening Hymn, Z. 193 04:32
- Antonio Vivaldi: Tito Manlio, RV 738:
- 10 Vivaldi: Tito Manlio, RV 738: Sonno, se pur sei sonno 02:22
- George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17:
- 11 Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Piangerò la sorte mia 05:46
- Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626:
- 12 Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Thy hand, Belinda (When I am laid in Earth) 04:55
Info zu Evening Hymn
Berit Norbakken ist eine der führenden Sopranistinnen Skandinaviens. Ihre Vielseitigkeit und Stimmflexibilität ermöglichen ihr ein Repertoire, das vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart reicht und auch Volksmusik einschließt. Hier stellt sie eine Auswahl ihres Repertoires vor, bestehend aus Arien aus verschiedenen Opern und Kantaten des Barock, von denen manche vielen bekannt, andere weniger bekannt sind. Zu dieser Aufnahme sagt sie: „Unser Wunsch ist es, unsere Version, unsere Begegnung mit dieser Musik und miteinander in der Musik zu präsentieren. Die Stücke sind durch unsere künstlerischen Stimmen und Erfahrungen miteinander verwoben und tragen dazu bei, neue Verbindungen zu schaffen.“ Ihre bisherigen Aufnahmen wurden von der Kritik hoch gelobt: „Die Sopranistin Berit Norbakken Solset singt mit einem klaren, reinen Ton, der immer wieder begeistert.“
„Die Sopranistin Berit Norbakken Solset singt mit einem klaren, reinen Ton, der immer wieder begeistert.“ - Charlottesvilleclassical.org
„… und so wunderbar gespielt, und die fabelhafte Sopranistin Berit Norbakken hat genau die richtige Mischung aus Geradlinigkeit, sodass man jede Note hören kann. Aber wenn sie sich entschließt, sich zu öffnen, ist es einfach fabelhaft. Für mich hat es alles…“ – BBC Radio 3
Berit Norbakken, Sopran
Arctic Philharmonic
Hennig Kraggerud, Dirigent
Berit Norbakken
(formerly Berit Solset) is one of Scandinavia’s leading sopranos. With outstanding versatility, she masters a repertoire ranging from Renaissance to contemporary, including folk music.
Berit appears regularly in performances of oratorios, passions, and masses, and continues her work with leading ensembles, orchestras and conductors in major concert halls all over the world. Norbakken has also sung opera with great success, most recently in a new staged production of Bach’s St John Passion directed by Calixto Bieito at Theatro Arriaga in Bilbao. After studies in Tromsø/Norway, Karlsruhe/Germany and graduating from the Norwegian Academy of Music, she won the 2006 INTRO-classical competition, the prestigious launch programme sponsored by Concerts Norway. This led to, among other things, a close collaboration with Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene. Their recording ‘The Image of Melancholy’ received brilliant reviews in Norway and abroad. She collaborates closely with conductor Juanjo Mena, with whom she regularly appears in concert, lately in Bach’s Matthewpassion at the May Festival Cincinnati. For her recording with the BBC Philharmonic of Arriaga’s vocal music, she has received glowing reviews internationally.
In November 2019 she performed the world premiere of Kaia Saariaho’s Quatre Instants – (sinfonietta version) with the Arctic Philharmonic Sinfonietta and Tim Weiss. She appeared in Sydney Opera House together with Anima Eterna Brugge, in Beethoven Symphony no 9, conducted by Jos van Immerseel, in Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall in Grieg’s Peer Gynt with Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra led by Mikhael Pletnev and in several programs touring in Europe.
Other parts include Marzelline (Beethoven/Fidelio), Rosina (Rossini/Il Barbiere de Sevilla) Balkis (Haydn/L’Incontro Improvviso), Aci (Händel/Aci, Galatea e Polifemo), Adonis (Scarlatti/Il Giardino di Amore), Abel (Scarlatti/ Il Primo Omicidio), first soprano in Mozart/Great Mass in C Minor, Mozart/Exultate Jubilate, Haydn: Creation, Haydn: Seasons. Since 2015 she has been a research fellow at the The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme. During her project she has worked closely with the Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist.
Upcoming engagements includes Mozart-program with Lorenzo Coppola, Bach Matthewpassion with Andreas Spering, Händel Saul with Hans-Christoph Rademann, Mozart Great Mass in C minor (soprano 1) with Daniel Reuss, Bach: St Johnpassion with Stephan MacLeod, Händel La Resurrezione with Ottavio Dantone and Arriaga Hermine & Médée with Juanjo Mena.
‘Carrying all of this emotional weight was soprano Berit Norbakken Solset, whose rendition of each song was astonishingly gorgeous, making them deeply moving. Nowhere more so than in the third of the songs, ‘Perfume of the instant’, its enraptured, intimate sensuality practically inducing the sensation of wafts of fragrance in the concert hall. Throughout the work, Solset made the music marvellously tactile, her voice seemingly communicating to each one of us in the audience personally. i can honestly say that if this was the last performance i ever heard, i would have died perfectly happily. Amazing.’
Booklet für Evening Hymn