Description
Tracklist:
1: Det Lisle Bnet (The Little Child)
2: So Ro, Godt Barn (Rest Now, Sweet Child)
3: Villemann Og Magnhild (Villemann And Magnhild)
4: Tjovane (The Thieves)
5: Nu Solen Gr Ned (The Sun Is Setting)
6: I Mine Kte Ungdomsdagar (In My Reckless, Youthful Days)
7: Gjendines Bdnlt (Gjendine’s Lullaby)
8: Bruremarsj Fr Gudbrandsdalen (Wedding March From Gudbrandsdalen)
9: Rolandskvadet (The Song Of Roland)
10: Solbnn (Sun-Prayer)
11: Eg Veit I Himmerik Ei Borg (I Know A Stronghold In Heaven)
12: Nu Vilar Hela Jorden (All The Earth Now Rests In Peace)
13: Springdans Fra Vestfold (Dance From Vestfold)
14: Eg Aktar Inkje (I Don’t Think Much Of Those Boys)
15: Den Elskte Jerusalem (Beloved Jerusalem)
16: Till, Till Tove
17: Lova Line
18: Danse, Ikke Grte N (Dance, Do Not Cry Now)
19: Den Signede Dag (The Day Of Joy)
20: Folkefrelsar, Til Oss Kom (Saviour Of The Nations, Come)
Ballads, Hymns and Lullabies
Traditional songs from Norway arranged for voices and percussion
Det Lisle Bnet (The Little Child)
Medieval Ballad, Telemark
So Ro, Godt Barn (Rest Now, Sweet Child)
Vestfold
Villemann Og Magnhild (Villemann And Magnhild)
Medieval Ballad, after Kalenda Maya
Tjovane (The Thieves)
Medieval Ballad, southern Norway
after Kirsten Brten Berg
Nu Solen Gr Ned (The Sun Is Setting)
Telemark, after Sondre Bratland
I Mine Kte Ungdomsdagar (In My Reckless, Youthful Days)
Telemark, after Tiriltunga
Gjendines Bdnlt (Gjendine’s Lullaby)
Written down by Edvard Grieg,
after Kaia Gjendine Slaalien, Jotunheimen
Rolandskvadet (The Song Of Roland)
Medieval ballad
Solbnn (Sun-Prayer)
Telemark, after Berit Opheim
Eg Veit I Himmerik Ei Borg (I Know A Stronghold In Heaven)
Hallingdal, German text before 1600,
translation by Bernt Stylen
Nu Vilar Hela Jorden (All The Earth Now Rests In Peace)
Old Swedish Town, Ukraine, after Tone Krohn
Eg Aktar Inkje (I Don’t Think Much Of Those Boys)
Telemark, after Tiriltunga
Den Elskte Jerusalem (Beloved Jerusalem)
Vestfold, after Arne Be, text by Niels Brorson
Till, Till Tove
Vestfold
Lova Line
Vest-Agder, after Kirsten Brten Berg
Danse, Ikke Grte N (Dance, Do Not Cry Now)
text/mel.: Lillebjrn Nilsen, Oslo
Den Signede Dag (The Day Of Joy)
Vestfold, after Tone Krohn
Folkefrelsar, Til Oss Kom (Saviour Of The Nations, Come)
Melody from Einsiedeln 12th century,
revised 1524 by Martin Luther, words after
Ambrosius (d. 397); “Veni redemptor gentium”,
transl. from German by Bernt Stylen
Recorded February 2007
Propstei St. Gerold
An ECM Production
2007 ECM Records GmbH
2007 ECM Records GmbH
