Love Songs Re-Spelled Elisabeth Holmertz & Fredrik Bock

• Susanna K. Wallumrød (1979 - ):
• 1The Forester09:24
• François Le Cocq (1685-1729):
• 2Chaconne04:13
• Barbara Strozzi (1619 - 1677):
• 3Non Occorre, Op. 704:48
• 4Lamento - Lagrime Mie, Op. 708:20
• 5Sete Pur Fastidioso, Op. 704:12
• 6La Travagliata, Op. 205:13
• Benedicte Torget (1971 - ):
• 7Oh, My Tears, What Holds You Back04:07
• Francesco Corbetta (1615 - 1681):
• 8Partie De Chaconne02:41
• Ane Brun (1976 - ):
• 9My Star03:28
• Barbara Strozzi (1619 - 1677):
• 10Sino Alla Morte, Op. 714:59
• Leonard Cohen (1934 - 2016):
• 11Hallelujah04:43
• Total Runtime01:06:08

Info for Love Songs Re-Spelled

A classical soprano/lute duo with a twist… We aim to find our sound, more than doing something new, avant-garde or just historically correct. Authenticity is important, but we are, more than anything else, musicians of today and there are many ways to be authentic. We have released two albums ”Love Songs re-spelled” and ”Sound, sweet Airs and the Art of Longing”.

Elisabeth Holmertz, soprano
Fredrik Bock, theorbe, guitar

Elisabeth Holmertz
The repertoire of Swedish soprano Elisabeth Holmertz spans from medieval to contemporary via Baroque, folk song, experimental musical theatre, and the late Romantic era, but she has worked mostly in early and contemporary music. Elisabeth studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where her principal teacher was Professor Barbro Marklund-Petersône. She also studied with Professor Barbara Schlick at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, Germany. She made her opera debut in 2005, singing the title role in Ophelias: Death by Water Singing by Henrik Hellstenius. Since then she has lent her voice to many strong and passionate female characters with a propensity toward delirious or suicidal behaviour (Dido, Hedda Gabler, Armide, et al), while also singing the roles of happy nymphs and diverse Venus-like figures. Elisabeth has appeared as soloist with the the most important ensembles and orchestras in Scandinavia, among them, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orches-tra, the Oslo Simfonietta, Danish Radio's Underholdningsorkester, and the Cikada Ensemble. She has worked with conductors such as Christian Eggen, Ingar Bergby, Tõnu Kaljuste, and Jonathan Stockhammer in larger concertante works that have included Pierrot Lunaire (Arnold Schönberg), Lonely Child (Claude Vivier), L'Abbé Agathon (Arvo Pärt), and Tre Voci (Arne Nordheim). Together with Cikada Duo and Åke Parmerud she recorded Fem kryptofonier by Arne Nordheim.

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