Folksongs

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BRITTEN / DVORAK / GRAINGER / HAHN / KODALY / etc
Folksongs
Anne Sofie von Otter (soprano) Bengt Forsberg (piano)

[ Deutsche Grammophon / CD ]

Release Date: Sunday 2 July 2000

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Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg have had their eyes on this repertoire right from the start of their careers. Sometimes the vocal line is authentic, as with Grainger, Kodály and Britten. At others it is more composed in the style of folk music, as with Dvorák, Larsson and Reynaldo Hahn. Folk- or "folk-inspired", Otter and Forsberg found these songs express human emotions in a more straightforward and immediate way than traditional lieder.

"Folk fiddlers playing on gut strings, Corsican and Bulgarian partsongs, the scratchy sound of folksingers' voices on 100-year-old wax recordings - these have always held a fascination for both of us" (Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg). And so does the material on this disc.

- Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg have had their eyes on this repertoire right from the start of their careers. Sometimes the vocal line is authentic, as with Grainger, Kodály and Britten. At others it is more composed in the style of folk music, as with Dvorák, Larsson and Reynaldo Hahn. Folk- or "folk-inspired", Otter and Forsberg found these songs express human emotions in a more straightforward and immediate way than traditional lieder.

Tracks:

Dvorák: Gypsy Songs op.55
Grainger: The Sprig of Thyme (British Folk Song)
Grainger: Died for Love (British Folk Song)
Grainger: British Waterside (British Folk Song)
Grainger: The Pretty Maid milkin' her cow (British Folk Song)
Larsson: Watercolour
Larsson: The Box Painter
Larsson: The Girl with the Divining-Herb
Hahn: A Song from Lapland
Hahn: Sopra l'aqua indormenzada
Hahn: La barcheta
Hahn: L'avertimento
Hahn: La biondina in gondoleta
Hahn: Che pecà
Kodály: Little Apple Fell into the Mudd
Kodály: Drinking Wine on Sunday
Kodaly: Youth is Like a Falcon
Kodály: Let No-One's Bride Bewail
Kodály: All Through the Vineyard
Kodály: Hey, the Price of Wine from Mohovce-Hill
Kodály: Beneath the Csitár Hills
Britten: La Noël passée
Britten: Voici le printemps
Britten: Fileuse
Britten: Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse
Britten: La belle est au jardin d'amour
Britten: Il est quelqu'un sur terre
Britten: Eho! Eho!
Britten: Quand j'étais chez mon père