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The Image of Melancholy
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The Image of Melancholy
Composers
Balke, Jon
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von
Buxtehude, Dietrich
Byrd, William
Dowland, John
Eike, Bjarte
Gow, Niel
Holborne, Anthony
Sommer, Johann
Traditional
Ó Catháin, Ruaidri Dáll
Performers
Norbakken Solset, Berit
Orchestras / Ensembles
Barokksolistene
Label
BIS
Catalogue number
BIS-2057 SACD
Release date
2013-09-10
Discs
1
Orig. sample rate
192000Hz
Total time
66:28
Please note: The 24-bit version of this album is large: 2,7 GB. It has been recorded using a sample rate of 192 kHz. If you can't take advantage of these high res files, you might be better off choosing the 16-bit download instead.
“With its authenticity of atmosphere and quiet ability to move, it is one to lose yourself in on long winter nights.”
Gramophone
Conceived by the baroque violinist Bjarte Eike for his period band Barokksolistene, this programme is his very personal ‘image of melancholy’. As he writes in his liner notes, ‘for me, melancholy is not only synonymous with sadness and despair, it is a state also harbouring reflection, meditation and relief.’ The connection between music and melancholy is far from new – at least since the time of the ancient Greeks, and probably long before them, there has been a belief that music has the power to influence our mood, to alleviate sadness or melancholy – or to induce it. Melancholy has at various times been the height of fashion – think of John Dowland, whose motto was: ‘Semper Dowland, semper dolens’ (‘always Dowland, always mourning’). Dowland is of course included here, as is his near-contemporary Anthony Holborne – but there are also a number of later pieces, as well as folk music from Eike’s native Norway and elsewhere. This music, writes Eike, ‘does not belong to any particular style, nationality or period in time; it’s rather a string of tunes that have all had a personal significance to me, and that together form a musical matrimony between a Nordic melancholy, the rich sounds of the Elizabethan consort and a modern approach to music-making.’ Joined by the soprano Berit Norbakken Solset and by the jazz pianist Jon Balke, Eike and his ensemble have created an intensely atmospheric and highly suggestive disc, which richly lives up to its motto – a quote by Victor Hugo: ‘Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.’
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Composer: Eike, Bjarte
01
Savn - a tune for Signe
02:59
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Composer: Holborne, Anthony
02
The image of melancholy, pavane
05:33
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Composer: Dowland, John
03
Sorrow, stay
02:58
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04
Bjørnsons bruremarsj
02:46
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Composer: Holborne, Anthony
05
Wanton, galliard
01:08
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06
Gjendines bådnlåt
04:25
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Composer: Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von
07
Die Kreuztragung
02:43
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Composer: Buxtehude, Dietrich
08
Klag-Lied
03:46
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Composer: Holborne, Anthony
09
Muy linda, galliard
02:06
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10
Joj Mati
03:00
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11
Evertsbergs gamla brudmarsch
01:39
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12
Bånsull
02:53
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Composer: Holborne, Anthony
13
Last will and testament, pavane
03:30
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Composer: Ó Catháin, Ruaidri Dáll
14
Tabhair dom do lámh
05:25
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Composer: Dowland, John
15
Flow my tears / Lachrimae antiquae
04:24
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Composer: Balke, Jon
Suite Susanne
16
Introducing Susanne - a meditation on Susanne un jour
01:51
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Composer: Sommer, Johann
17
Devising Susanne
02:46
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Composer: Dowland, John
18
Gaillard ‘Susanna’
01:11
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Composer: Byrd, William
19
Ye sacred muses
04:18
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Composer: Gow, Niel
20
Niel Gow’s lament for the death of his second wife
05:35
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Album total
66:28
Composer
Balke, Jon
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von
Buxtehude, Dietrich
Byrd, William
Dowland, John
Eike, Bjarte
Gow, Niel
Holborne, Anthony
Sommer, Johann
Ó Catháin, Ruaidri Dáll
Conductor
Eike, Bjarte
Ensemble
Barokksolistene
Arranger
Balke, Jon
Eike, Bjarte
Valent, Milos
Organ
Balke, Jon
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