Sibelius - Songs, Volume 2
Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano), Love Derwinger (piano)
Monica Groop, following her success in the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, has built up a busy career. Communication is her strength, and unevenness of line a relative weakness. Sibelius's...
Sibelius - Songs, Volume 2
Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano), Love Derwinger (piano)
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Monica Groop, following her success in the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, has built up a busy career. Communication is her strength, and unevenness of line a relative weakness. Sibelius's...
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Contents and tracklist
Sibelius:
Kung Kristian II, Op. 27
Work length3:40
IV." Sången om korsspindeln" (Arr. for Voice & Piano by Sibelius)
Track length3:40
Work length13:13
No. 1, Nu står jul vid snöig port
Track length1:50
No. 2, Nu så kommer julen
Track length2:20
No. 3, Det mörknar ute
Track length2:50
No. 4, Giv mig ej glans, ej guld, ej prakt
Track length3:47
No. 5, On hanget korkeat, nietokset
Track length2:26
Sibelius:
Eight Songs, Op. 57
Work length21:54
No. 1, Älven och snigeln
Track length2:52
No. 2, En blomma stod vid vägen
Track length2:12
No. 3, Kvarhjulet
Track length2:57
No. 4, Maj
Track length2:42
No. 5, Jag är ett träd
Track length2:52
No. 6, Hertig Magnus
Track length3:23
No. 7, Vänskapens blomma
Track length2:40
No. 8, Näcken
Track length2:16
Work length2:05
Sibelius:
Six Songs, Op. 72
Work length8:54
No. 3, Kyssen
Track length2:28
No. 4, Kaiutar
Track length3:17
No. 5, Der Wanderer und der Bach
Track length00:51
No. 6, Hundra vägar har min tanke
Track length2:18
Work length11:54
No. 1, Vårförnimmelser
Track length1:17
No. 2, Längtan heter min arvedel
Track length3:17
No. 3, Dold Förening
Track length00:58
No. 4, Och finns det en tanke?
Track length2:19
No. 5, Sångarlön
Track length1:50
No. 6, I systrar, I bröder, I älskande par!
Track length2:13
Sibelius:
Små flickorna, JS 174
Work length3:40
Awards and reviews
2010
Monica Groop, following her success in the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, has built up a busy career. Communication is her strength, and unevenness of line a relative weakness. Sibelius's songs are a rich and still undervalued part of the song repertoire. Still only four or five are really well known, and none of those is included here. Not all are of very special quality: the title is probably the best thing about the 'Fool's Song of the Spider' (from King Christian II), and the Hymnto Thaïs gains interest through being Sibelius's only song in English rather than through intrinsic merit. Yet there are many delights here, including the closing waltz-song, The small girls.
The acoustic is perhaps somewhat too reverberant but has plenty of presence.
