Helene Wold, Eugene Asti - Nordraak: Songs And Piano Music (2017) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Valse-Caprice
02. Aftenstemning
03. Venskabs-Polka
04. Wenn sich zwei Herzen scheiden
05. Melodi
06. Opus 2 I. Tonen
07. Opus 2 II. Tr?et
08. Opus 2 III. Solvejge
09. Opus 2 IV. En underlig Vise
10. Opus 2 V. Killebukken
11. Allegro
12. Scherzo Capriccio
13. Taarnv?gteren
14. Opus 1 I. Jeg har sogt
15. Opus 1 II. Romance – Ingerid Sletten
16. Opus 1 III. Holder du af mig
17. Opus 1 IV. Romance – Liden Gunvor
18. Opus 1 V. Over de hoie Fj?lde
19. Opus 1 VI. Synnoves Sang
20. Fire Dandse for Piano I. Jagt-Polka
21. Fire Dandse for Piano II. Klingenberg-Polka-Mazurka
22. Fire Dandse for Piano III. Nora-Varsoviana
23. Fire Dandse for Piano IV. Flora-Polka
24. Troubadour-Vals
25. Spansk Sang


With but a handful of songs, a few piano pieces and some incidental music, Ricard Nordraak (1842-1866), at the age of twenty-three, succeeded in achieving mythical status in Norwegian cultural life. He lived at a time when an early death had led to such a status, from Goethe’s "Sorrows of Young Werther" via Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn, to our own Henrik Wergeland.

There is so much that remains unexpressed and unrealised in the figure of Rikard Nordraak, so much that has to do with what he could have accomplished. Would he have composed the lofty Norwegian opera of which Bjørnson had dreamed? Might he have written the great Norwegian Romantic symphony? Or, owing to his rather easy-going disposition, might he have slipped steadily into obscurity?

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