Å her møter mangt - Songs by Johan Kvandal Isa Katharina Gericke & Joachim Knoph

• Johan Kvandal (1919 - 1999): Sanger, Op. 9:
• 1 Sanger, Op. 9: No. 9. Attersyn 01:38
• To Garborg-sanger:
• 2 To Garborg-sanger: Veslemøy ved rokken 01:31
• 3 To Garborg-sanger: Kvelding 01:33
• Sanger, Op. 9:
• 4 Sanger, Op. 9: No. 1. Helsarmål 01:32
• 5 Sanger, Op. 9: No. 2. Hugen leikar 01:20
• 6 Sanger, Op. 9: No. 3. Mørk er min Sjæl 02:47
• 7 Sanger, Op. 9: No. 4. Til min Gyldenlak 03:06
• 8 Sanger, Op. 9: No. 5. Mot mørketid 01:49
• 9 Sanger, Op. 9: No. 6. Klage 01:54
• To Fröding-sanger, Op. 9:
• 10 To Fröding-sanger, Op. 9: Min stjärnas songer, No. 1 01:39
• 11 To Fröding-sanger, Op. 9: Min stjärnas songer No. 2 01:27
• Norske stevtoner, Op. 40:
• 12 Norske stevtoner, Op. 40: I. Mine visur 01:36
• 13 Norske stevtoner, Op. 40: II. Då eg va liti 01:28
• 14 Norske stevtoner, Op. 40: III. Eg var meg ut på Gladheimsbergi 01:24
• 15 Norske stevtoner, Op. 40: IV. Hjuringvise og lokk 01:58
• 16 Norske stevtoner, Op. 40: V. Å hugen min 01:29
• 17 Norske stevtoner, Op. 40: VI. Å her møter mangt 02:39
• 18 Norske stevtoner, Op. 40: VII. Liti-mor 00:58
• 19 Norske stevtoner, Op. 40: VIII. Då eg va liti eg sprang utivi 01:18
• 20 Norske stevtoner, Op. 40: IX. Sjugurd og kjerringi 02:21
• 21 Norske stevtoner, Op. 40: X. Å med soli kan eg 02:09
• 22 Norske stevtoner, Op. 40: XI. Guten og jenta 01:52
• Syv sanger, Op. 4:
• 23 Syv sanger, Op. 4: I. Hugleik 02:39
• 24 Syv sanger, Op. 4: II. Hadulaikar 02:29
• 25 Syv sanger, Op. 4: III. Stridsmannen og Dauden 02:18
• 26 Syv sanger, Op. 4: IV. Vårvon 01:21
• 27 Syv sanger, Op. 4: V. Or Skirnesmål 02:09
• 28 Syv sanger, Op. 4: VI. Or Helge Hundingsbane 02:43
• 29 Syv sanger, Op. 4: VII. Barnerim 01:27
• 7 små barnesanger:
• 30 7 små barnesanger: I. Gråpus 02:10
• 31 7 små barnesanger: II. Hosten 01:06
• 32 7 små barnesanger: III. Naboens hund 00:59
• 33 7 små barnesanger: IV. Gresshoppen 01:04
• 34 7 små barnesanger: V. Fødselsdagsfest 00:48
• 35 7 små barnesanger: VI. Vuggevise 01:17
• 36 7 små barnesanger: VII. Tyven og gjessene 00:43
• To kjærlighetssanger, Op. 58:
• 37 To kjærlighetssanger, Op. 58: No. 1. En rose 03:51
• 38 To kjærlighetssanger, Op. 58: No. 2. I berget 01:27
• Total Runtime 01:07:59

Info for Å her møter mangt - Songs by Johan Kvandal

"Kvandal heading for stardom" proclaimed local northern newspaper Helgeland Arbeiderblad when Johan Kvandal's name first materialised in a radio program in August of 1940. The backdrop for this announcement was that several of Kvandal's songs were performed on the radio program "Young and New". Listeners were promised to expect a precocious talent in the following show, and the Haugtussa songs found on this recording confirm that this 20-year-old clearly knew his craft and the music has proven to withstand the test of time. Throughout the 1950s and 60s, Kvandal focused on composing chamber music, concerts and symphonic music. He continued to compose music for lyrics, but taking on the position of organist at and Oslo church iinspired him to embrace biblical and religious texts. However, his tonal constancy was the bedrock for everything he wrote. Not even during the mid-1960s avant-gardism was he led off-track. It can therefore be said that there is a common thread in his vocal music, from the very first songs of 1939 up until the Knut Hamsun opera Mysteries in 1993, by which time his many years of experience in writing melodies for voice had reached its peak. Isa Katharina Gericke is known as a versatile and colourful artist in concert, chamber music and opera; her solo engagements have included collaborations with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Akademie fur alte Musik Berlin, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with conductors Sir Andrew Davies amongst others. She is accompanied by pianist Joachim Knoph, an active soloist and chamber musician who has performed in a number of countries.

Isa Katharina Gericke, soprano
Joachim Knoph, piano

Isa Katharina Gericke
was born in Berlin and grew up in the middle part of Norway, and studied at the Norwegian Music Academy in Oslo and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.

Her debut was as Gretel in Humperdinck’s ”Hänsel and Gretel” at the Norwegian National Opera in 2003.

She won the 1st Prize in the national part of the Queen Sonja International Music Competition 2001 in Oslo and has since then proven to be a versatile and colorful artist that is acclaimed for her programming-, interpretation- and communication skills. Gericke is a true musician and presenter in its most genuine sense. Recently she showed new sides in the self produced cabaret ”Frauen sind keine Engel”, presenting music from Berlin in the nineteen thirties and forties.

She has visited all of Norway’s most important classical music festivals, as well as music festivals in Greece, Germany and Canada. In the spring of 2008 she sang Eurydice in Monteverdi’s ’Orfeo’ with musical director Rinaldo Alessandrini at the Norwegian National Opera. 2010 she did it again in Hannover with musical director Olof Boman, and in 2012 she sang Eurydice in Potsdam, this time in Gluck’s opera.

Isa sang Gudrun in the Saint Olav drama ”Spelet om Heilag Olav” in 2010 and 2011 at one of Norway’s biggest outdoor happenings in Trøndelag.

Isa has a special interest in the Lied- and romance repertoire and has been praised for her concert performances about Eva Sars Nansen, Jenny Lind and Kirsten Flagstad. After her Lied recital in Edvard Grieg’s home Troldhaugen during the Bergen International Festival in June 2007, Aftenposten wrote: ’Beautiful beyond words’.

In 2008 she made her UK debut with a recital at London’s Wigmore Hall. She has sung with the Oslo Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic, under the batons of such maestros as Sir Andrew Davies, Manfred Honneck, Franz Brüggen, Rinaldo Alessandrini and Philipe Herreweghe.

For the record label Naxos Isa sang Solveig in a recording of Grieg’s ”Peer Gynt” with Bjarte Engeset, conductor, and Malmö Symphony Orchestra. In 2003 her recording titled ’Waldabendlust’ caught considerable interest. It was the result of her research in the field of the German Lied in Norway: Songs by Kjerulf, Irgens-Jensen, Backer-Grøndahl and Winter Hjelm. As Die Tonkunst wrote: ’This is a CD all Lieder-lovers ought to listen to’.

In 2009, she followed up with a new recording of Lieder together with the acclaimed pianist Christian Ihle Hadland. The recording is a tribute to the soprano Eva Nansen – married to world famous explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel laureate Fritjof Nansen – with Lieder from Eva Nansen’s repertoire by Kjerulf, Nordraak and Backer Grøndahl. Then, together with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Isa joined the trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth for the CD ”My Heart is Always Present” (Simax Grappa). This CD quickly went on to sell gold.

She also figures as soloist with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in Simax’ special CD project ’Norwegian Heartland’, to mark Norway’s independence 1905 – 2005.

Stellis Polaris Management represents Isa Katharina Gericke worldwide.

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