Bjarte Engeset
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Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Guro Kleven Hagen (violin)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset
A delight to be acquainted with the name and performance of a very impressive young musician, her interpretations entirely confident and full of character. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Engeset’s new account is a delight from start to finish, revealing Tveitt’s delicate yet robust invention without a hint of the twee, though with a suggestion of Khachaturian in the finale….... —
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Special offer. Krigsseilerrekviem
Royal Norwegian Navy Band, The Norwegian National Opera Chorus, Bjarte Engeset
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Grieg: Complete Orchestral Works
Malmö Symphony Orchestra & Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset
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Geirr Tveitt: A Hundred Hardanger Tunes Suites Nos. 2 & 5
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset
Only four of Geirr Tveitt's suites from his unique, folk-inspired collection, A HundredHardanger Tunes, survive. The two presented here exhibit the same principal characteristics as Nos 1 and... —
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there's an edge to their tone that belies unfavourable comparisons with salon music. They also capture the vocal quality underpinning the Two Elegiac Melodies, and the folk music background... —
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Halvorsen & Nielsen: Violin Concertos
Henning Kraggerud (violin)
Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset
Kraggerud plays with a sense of lithe buoyancy in the faster music, although his double stops are not always infallible. But he has a wide tonal palette, and the langorous slow movement, with... —
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Grieg: Olav Trygvason
Magne Fremmerlid (bass-baritone), Nina Gravrok (soprano), Marianne E. Andersen (mezzo-soprano), Yngve Søberg (bass-baritone) & Helge Rønning (tenor)
Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera Orchestra, Malmö Chamber Choir, Lund Student Singers & Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset
Engeset secures committedly live-feeling performances from his Swedish players and choirs. Recommended for that, and for the convenience of hearing the Bjornson/Grieg repertoire as a unit. —
