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Special offer. Light Divine

Baroque music for treble and ensemble

Aksel Rykkvin (treble)

MIN Ensemble, Mark Bennett (conductor), Lazar Miletic (artistic director)

Light Divine
The pieces were all written for soprano, but they suit young Rykkvin’s pure tone and mature musicianship to perfection. A month after the recording, his voice broke and that ethereal sound was...

Special offer. Light Divine

Baroque music for treble and ensemble

Aksel Rykkvin (treble)

MIN Ensemble, Mark Bennett (conductor), Lazar Miletic (artistic director)

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The pieces were all written for soprano, but they suit young Rykkvin’s pure tone and mature musicianship to perfection. A month after the recording, his voice broke and that ethereal sound was...

About

The prodigious Norwegian treble Aksel Rykkvin returns to disc on Signum with a new disc of Baroque works, accompanying the MIN Ensemble under conductor and trumpeter Mark Bennett and their artistic director Lazar Miletic.

Featuring both instrumental pieces and excerpts from operas and other works by Handel, Rameau, Albinoni and Rittler, this disc further documents Aksel’s unique talent as a performer.

Praise for Aksel’s previous release (Aksel! SIGCD435) and performances: “A mature, musical performer [...] an accomplished and adult disc” Gramophone “A remarkable performance - pure,confident, technically perfect and hauntingly beautiful” Classic FM

“Freakishly good, with a musical assurance and richness of tone that are almost superhuman” Financial Times

“A superb debut ... Exceptionally polished performances” BBC Music Magazine

Contents and tracklist

Eternal Source of Light Divine
Track length3:10
III. Passacaille (arr. Mark Bennett)
Track length4:54
V. "What Passion Cannot Music Raise"
Track length8:18
La Marche – Recitative "Alla caccia, alla caccia" – Aria "Foriera la tromba" (arr. Mark Bennett)
Track length6:25
Vien con nuova Orribil guerra
Track length5:33
Act III Scene 1: Ritournelle (arr. Aareskjold & Bennett)
Track length1:50
Act IV Scene 4: Entrée d’Abaris
Track length3:47
Act II Scene 2: "Tristes apprêts" (arr. Aareskjold & Bennett)
Track length6:20
Act IV Scene 5: Ballet figure, Air (arr. Mark Bennett)
Track length2:21
Act I, Scene 6: Orage (arr. Aareskjold & Bennett)
Track length2:33
Act II, Scene 6: “Je ne sais quel ennui me presse” (arr. Stian Aareskjold)
Track length3:37
Act IV Scene 6: Chaconne (arr. Mark Bennett)
Track length5:43

Awards and reviews

10th March 2018

The pieces were all written for soprano, but they suit young Rykkvin’s pure tone and mature musicianship to perfection. A month after the recording, his voice broke and that ethereal sound was lost for ever – but it is now frozen on disc for all time.
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