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Grieg: Songs / Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragner Eriksen

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Details

Composer
GRIEG
Artist
Erling Ragnar, Bodil, Eriksen, Arnesen
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Jan 15, 1997
Catalog #
8553781
UPC
730099478120

About

Though Anne Sofie von Otter’s Gramophone Award-winning disc remains the clear choice for a single record devoted to Grieg’s songs, this new one runs it close. Bodil Arnesen is a young lyric soprano with just the right freshness for these open-air songs (as so many of them are) of spring and hope. She is entirely firm, has a healthy glow on the upper notes, shows a nice feeling for nuance, and knows how to make the voice smile. Some limitation is felt in the few darker songs, such as the second of Op. 48, “Dareinst, Gedanke mein”, which von Otter takes at a slower pace, introducing an unearthly pallor into the tone, and providing a more weighty reminder of the link back to Schubert’s Wanderers Nachtlied and forward to Strauss’s Ruhe, meine Seele. Then in the next song, “Lauf der Welt”, von Otter has a style at once bolder and more confiding: she communicates as though to a larger audience and so on a bigger scale, enlarging what one might call the vocal gestures of intimacy to match. Yet for home-listening, especially if you are playing at a good volume, I’m not sure that such large expressiveness isn’t just a little overwhelming: certainly the return, from that, to the soprano’s relatively miniaturist style is no hardship.

The choice of songs is fine, so too the programming, in which the sequence (not chronological) is sensible and satisfying. For a proper conspectus of Grieg’s songs it is necessary to have the Haugtussa cycle, which von Otter includes and Arnesen does not; there is compensation, however, in the charming Bjornson settings (Op. 21), the two songs of Solveig, and others such as The Princess and “With a primrose” which are among the best of all. Erling Eriksen accompanies sympathetically, the balance of voice and piano is well judged and the booklet provides useful and attractive companionship.

-- Gramophone [5/1997]

Tracklist 28 tracks

  1. 1 Fem digte, Op. 26: I. Et Hab (Hope) 02:05
    Track
    1
    Title
    Fem digte, Op. 26: I. Et Hab (Hope)
    Duration
    02:05
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  2. 2 III. Jeg elsker Dig (I Love but Thee) 01:39
    Track
    2
    Title
    III. Jeg elsker Dig (I Love but Thee)
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  3. 3 I. To brune Ojne (Two Brown Eyes) 01:10
    Track
    3
    Title
    I. To brune Ojne (Two Brown Eyes)
    Duration
    01:10
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  4. 4 I. Det forste Mode (The First Meeting) 03:24
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Det forste Mode (The First Meeting)
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  5. 5 II. God Morgen! (Good Morning!) 00:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. God Morgen! (Good Morning!)
    Duration
    00:59
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  6. 6 III. Jeg giver mit digt til varen (To Springtime My Song I'm Singing) 01:48
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Jeg giver mit digt til varen (To Springtime My Song I'm Singing)
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  7. 7 IV. Tak for dit Rad (Say What You Will) 01:23
    Track
    7
    Title
    IV. Tak for dit Rad (Say What You Will)
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  8. 8 Prinsessen (The Princess), EG 133 03:05
    Track
    8
    Title
    Prinsessen (The Princess), EG 133
    Duration
    03:05
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  9. 9 Romancer, Op. 39: I. Fra Monte Pincio (From Monte Pincio) 05:04
    Track
    9
    Title
    Romancer, Op. 39: I. Fra Monte Pincio (From Monte Pincio)
    Duration
    05:04
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  10. 10 XIX. Solveigs Sang (Solveig's Song) 04:42
    Track
    10
    Title
    XIX. Solveigs Sang (Solveig's Song)
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  11. 11 XXVI. Solveigs Vuggevise (Solveig's Cradle Song) 03:53
    Track
    11
    Title
    XXVI. Solveigs Vuggevise (Solveig's Cradle Song)
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  12. 12 No. 1. Gruss (Greeting) 01:03
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 1. Gruss (Greeting)
    Duration
    01:03
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  13. 13 No. 2. Dereinst, Gedanke mein (One day, O heart of mine) 02:55
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 2. Dereinst, Gedanke mein (One day, O heart of mine)
    Duration
    02:55
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  14. 14 No. 3. Lauf der Welt (The way of the world) 01:35
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 3. Lauf der Welt (The way of the world)
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  15. 15 No. 4. Die verschwiegene Nachtigall (The nightingale's secret) 03:14
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 4. Die verschwiegene Nachtigall (The nightingale's secret)
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  16. 16 No. 5. Zur Rosenzeit (The time of roses) 02:41
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 5. Zur Rosenzeit (The time of roses)
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  17. 17 No. 6. Ein Traum (A dream) 02:13
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 6. Ein Traum (A dream)
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  18. 18 4 Songs, Op. 15: No. 1. Margretes Vuggesang (Margaret's Cradle Song) 01:35
    Track
    18
    Title
    4 Songs, Op. 15: No. 1. Margretes Vuggesang (Margaret's Cradle Song)
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  19. 19 II. Jeg reiste en deiling Sommerkvaeld (I Walked One Balmy Summer Eve) 02:21
    Track
    19
    Title
    II. Jeg reiste en deiling Sommerkvaeld (I Walked One Balmy Summer Eve)
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  20. 20 IV. Med en Primula veris (The First Primrose) 02:06
    Track
    20
    Title
    IV. Med en Primula veris (The First Primrose)
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  21. 21 12 Songs, Op. 33: No. 2. Varen (Last Spring) 04:51
    Track
    21
    Title
    12 Songs, Op. 33: No. 2. Varen (Last Spring)
    Duration
    04:51
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  22. 22 Romancer , Op. 39: III. I Liden hojt deroppe (Upon a Grassy Hillside) 02:02
    Track
    22
    Title
    Romancer , Op. 39: III. I Liden hojt deroppe (Upon a Grassy Hillside)
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  23. 23 Elegiske digte , Op. 59: IV. Til En. II (To Her) 01:41
    Track
    23
    Title
    Elegiske digte , Op. 59: IV. Til En. II (To Her)
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  24. 24 Digte, Op. 60: III. Mens jeg venter (On the Water) 02:21
    Track
    24
    Title
    Digte, Op. 60: III. Mens jeg venter (On the Water)
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  25. 25 6 Poems, Op. 25: No. 2. En svane (A Swan) 02:26
    Track
    25
    Title
    6 Poems, Op. 25: No. 2. En svane (A Swan)
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  26. 26 Seks digte, Op 49: VI. Foraarsregn (Spring Showers) 02:38
    Track
    26
    Title
    Seks digte, Op 49: VI. Foraarsregn (Spring Showers)
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  27. 27 12 Songs, Op. 33: No. 9. Ved Rondane (At Rondane) 02:58
    Track
    27
    Title
    12 Songs, Op. 33: No. 9. Ved Rondane (At Rondane)
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen
  28. 28 6 Poems, Op. 25: No. 6. En fuglevise (A Birdsong) 02:18
    Track
    28
    Title
    6 Poems, Op. 25: No. 6. En fuglevise (A Birdsong)
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Performer
    Bodil Arnesen, Erling Ragnar Eriksen