Grieg
Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th January 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2022, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 15th January 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
Davidsen’s grandly sized soprano is headed for Wagner and other dramatic operas, but we know from recital appearances that she is also a very appreciable artist in solo song. Everything here...
Grieg
Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th January 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2022, Recording of the Month
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Record Review, 15th January 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
Davidsen’s grandly sized soprano is headed for Wagner and other dramatic operas, but we know from recital appearances that she is also a very appreciable artist in solo song. Everything here...
About
Two of Norway’s most celebrated musicians come together to perform the music of the country’s most celebrated composer. Lise and pianist Leif Ove will be touring the repertoire around Norway, Germany, Spain, Austria and the UK. Recorded in the Arctic Circle in Bodø – Lise describes ‘magical’ time recording this music with a special team in rural Norway.
Contents and tracklist
- Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-09-08
- Recording Venue: Stormen Konserthus, Bodø
- Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-09-08
- Recording Venue: Stormen Konserthus, Bodø
- Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-09-08
- Recording Venue: Stormen Konserthus, Bodø
- Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-09-08
- Recording Venue: Stormen Konserthus, Bodø
- Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-09-08
- Recording Venue: Stormen Konserthus, Bodø
- Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-09-08
- Recording Venue: Stormen Konserthus, Bodø
- Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-09-08
- Recording Venue: Stormen Konserthus, Bodø
- Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-09-08
- Recording Venue: Stormen Konserthus, Bodø
- Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-09-08
- Recording Venue: Stormen Konserthus, Bodø
- Lise Davidsen (soprano), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-09-08
- Recording Venue: Stormen Konserthus, Bodø
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week7th January 2022
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Gramophone MagazineJanuary 2022Recording of the Month
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Record Review15th January 2022
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International Classical Music Awards2023Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the YearWinner 2022
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Gramophone MagazineCritics' Choice 2022
7th January 2022
Davidsen’s grandly sized soprano is headed for Wagner and other dramatic operas, but we know from recital appearances that she is also a very appreciable artist in solo song. Everything here is beautiful, the voice gleaming and lyrical, the style unforced but communicative...it is a bonus to have Norway’s leading pianist, Leif Ove Andsnes, on hand to add accompaniments of sparkling precision.
January 2022
In purely vocal terms, it's a stunning display of range and technical control...Andsnes’s role cannot be overestimated, either. His playing is supremely refined and sensitive…An outstanding release.
7th January 2022
This is one of those albums where the synergy between the two artists and their mutual affinity with the repertoire combine to truly spellbinding effect. Davidsen may be destined for Isolde and Brünnhilde, but she’s also capable of extraordinary delicacy when painting on a smaller canvas – and Andsnes backs her to the hilt throughout, revelling in the passages where she unleashes the full firepower but never obscuring the vocal line in the many magical moments where she tapers the sound to a fine silvery thread.
9th January 2022
she is at her best when she lightens the tone for the two comic folk songs, and she is most affecting in the well-known Ibsen setting, En Svane (A Swan), Jeg Elsker Dig! (I Love You!) and Varen (Spring), delivered with remarkable delicacy for such a big voice. In Andsnes she has an ideal pianist and champion for Norway’s national composer.
7th January 2022
Whatever the register, Davidsen’s vibrant voice knows no kinks, and easily holds us in an iron grip. Even so, it’s a special pleasure when the songs allow her to dim the headlights and restrain the volume. The recording throughout is uniformly good.
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