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NOXAS Saxophone Quartet, Berit Norbakken, Nordic Voices, Kai Grinde Myrann – Amulets (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:07:57 minutes | 2,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lawo Classics
NoXaS Saxophone Quartet was established in 2007 and since then has distinguished itself as a high-quality ensemble with several collaborations with elite Norwegian musicians and ensembles. Its main objective is to perform the best possible repertoire for this type of ensemble format while simultaneously building up a new repertoire together with composers and other performers. Through this work, NoXaS has cemented its position as a significant asset to the Norwegian music scene.
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Nordic Voices – Henrik Hellstenius: ‘Public Behaviour’; Together (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:42 minutes | 518 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
Ever since he was a child, Norwegian composer Henrik Hellstenius has sought to explore music more freely than by simply mastering the classics. His language, which draws its inspiration from the modes of expression of his time, takes shape in the course of his work through sound, movement, rhythm and silence, as well as in his encounters with musicians and their instruments. Here, much of what is expressed is part of an intense inner monologue: a litany of doubt, affirmation and frustration being whispered, said, sung and shouted. Everything about these two works, from their titles to their modes of expression, suggests that they are directed outwards towards society in general and towards individuals in particular. Public Behaviour is about how we act together in an age of extreme individualism. The work presents musical situations in which the soloist, vocal ensemble and orchestra depict encounters and conflicts around the theme of the individual versus the collective space. Together is a meditation on the relationship between ‘me and the other’. The question is how we relate to the people we meet, work with and live with. The versatile vocal ensemble Nordic Voices performs both works and is joined by some of the best musicians on the Norwegian contemporary scene.
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Schola Cantorum, Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl & Nordic Voices – AUDIENS (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 56:35 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2L
What is the music of the Nordic light? Let yourself be transported to a new world of sound as the chamber choir Schola Cantorum and conductor Tone Bianca Dahl, with guest musicians Are Sandbakken and Nordic Voices, grant you an AUDIENCE. Hear one of Norway’s leading choirs in premier recordings and modern classics.
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Nordic Voices, Berit Opheim Versto – HIMMELKVAD (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:49 minutes | 2,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Nordic Council Music Prize 2010 was awarded to the Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen. His “Opus 42” represents a true renewal of Nordic vocal music. This strikingly beautiful piece reveals the common denominators in ancient and ultra-modern sounds, drawing our attention to the similarities between Scandinavian folk traditions and the music we might find in, say, the Middle East or India. Lasse Thoresen not only uses folk sounds to spice up art music, he also integrates its finely tuned microtonality, spectral overtones, harmonies and rhythms into the contemporary, modernist project in a truly pioneering manner. A project like this depends upon close collaboration with skilled musicians who are willing to take risks. Thoresen found them in the vocal ensemble Nordic Voices and folk singer Berit Opheim Versto.
Artistic creativity, versatility and technical precision are the main elements that make up NORDIC VOICES. The six-voice a cappella group was formed in 1996 and comprises graduates from the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Norwegian Academy of Opera, who, in addition to their singing backgrounds, have a broad range of experience from choral conducting to teacher training and composition. It is perhaps this range of interests that leads them to explore a wider than usual spectrum of musical expression, from plainchant to new works commissioned from leading Norwegian composers; from the most sacred of religious texts to the definitely profane. Nordic Voices are an unusual blend of sophisticated music-making and stylish performance, more often than not with more than a dash of humour.
5.0 SURROUND + STEREO produced in DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition 352kHz/24bit) by Lindberg Lyd, Norway 2l.no
Nordic Voices, Berit Opheim Versto – HIMMELKVAD (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:49 minutes | 2,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2L
The Nordic Council Music Prize 2010 was awarded to the Norwegian composer Lasse Thoresen. His “Opus 42” represents a true renewal of Nordic vocal music. This strikingly beautiful piece reveals the common denominators in ancient and ultra-modern sounds, drawing our attention to the similarities between Scandinavian folk traditions and the music we might find in, say, the Middle East or India. Lasse Thoresen not only uses folk sounds to spice up art music, he also integrates its finely tuned microtonality, spectral overtones, harmonies and rhythms into the contemporary, modernist project in a truly pioneering manner. A project like this depends upon close collaboration with skilled musicians who are willing to take risks. Thoresen found them in the vocal ensemble Nordic Voices and folk singer Berit Opheim Versto.
Artistic creativity, versatility and technical precision are the main elements that make up NORDIC VOICES. The six-voice a cappella group was formed in 1996 and comprises graduates from the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Norwegian Academy of Opera, who, in addition to their singing backgrounds, have a broad range of experience from choral conducting to teacher training and composition. It is perhaps this range of interests that leads them to explore a wider than usual spectrum of musical expression, from plainchant to new works commissioned from leading Norwegian composers; from the most sacred of religious texts to the definitely profane. Nordic Voices are an unusual blend of sophisticated music-making and stylish performance, more often than not with more than a dash of humour.
5.0 SURROUND + STEREO produced in DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition 352kHz/24bit) by Lindberg Lyd, Norway 2l.no
Nordic Voices – Victoria: Works for Six Voices (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 55:34 minutes | 1,72 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Six-person a cappella group Nordic Voices presents motets by Spanish composer Toms Luis de Victoria, following their critically praised recording of works by Gesualdo and Palestrina. Approaching the intricate and technically demanding polyphony of Victoria’s music with flair, the Norwegian ensemble’s voices soar in this entrancing recording from Chandos.
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