QCD 9303 - CANTIO

Anne Lise Berntsen - soprano
Carl Høgset - countertenor
Scott B. Campbell - tenor
Pål Rullestad - tenor
Arild Rønsen - tenor
Njål Sparbo - bass

The music on Quattro Stagioni's Cantio spans a period of seventy years, encompassing both David Monrad Johansen's Draumkvædet, published in 1922, and Knut Nystedt's The Conch, completed in 1993. All of the selections are twentieth-century Norwegian vocal pieces, and none has been available on record before.

Producer: Njål Sparbo, Lasse Thoresen
Recording: Erling Jørgensen, Arne Edvard Johnsen
Recorded in Ambience studio and in NRK, Oslo, 1991-93
Released in 1994 by Quattro AS, Oslo, Norway
TOTAL PLAYING TIME 71:52

CONTENTS:

1 Vår i fjellgrenda Carl G. Sparre Olsen:
2 Dagvise Ludvig Irgens-Jensen
3 Draumkvædet David Monrad Johansen
4 Sanningi Klaus Egge
5 Til Sylvan Eivind Groven
6 På hospitalet om natten Eivind Groven
7 Sus, sunnanvind Conrad Baden
8 O store konge, Davids søn Fartein Valen

To Mannskormotetter Fartein Valen
9 O salutaris hostia
10 Quia vidisti me, Thoma

11 Dove la luce Bjørn Kruse
12 The Conch Knut Nystedt
Cantico Sacra Lasse Thoresen
13 I give praise to Thee
14 Make me ready
15 He who was athirst

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