Sunday 19 March at 2 p.m.:
Experience great songs at Siljustøl!
Mezzo soprano Astrid Nordstad and pianist Pål Eide present a magnificent program written by two of the great romance composers of Romanticism: Mahler and Grieg.
Buy ticketIn "Haugtussa" Grieg and Garborg have created one of the most beautiful portraits of women in music literature.
This Sunday we get to experience these well-known and beloved songs together with "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen", a song cycle by Gustav Mahler with his own texts.
The song cycle consists of four Lieder and was written around 1884-1885 in the wake of Mahler's unhappy love affair with the soprano Johanna Richter.
About the artists
Astrid Nordstad is a Norwegian mezzo-soprano from Trondheim. In the spring of 2014, she completed her bachelor's degree in opera at the Norwegian Academy of Music and Opera College in Oslo, and completed her studies at the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen in 2017, where she sang the title role in The Rape of Lucretia and Dorabella in Così fan tutte.
She is considered one of Norway's foremost singers and is known for her startlingly beautiful sound and ability to move the audience.
Pål Eide was born in Bergen in 1970 and has lived in Denmark since his debut in Copenhagen. He is educated at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, with further studies with Jiri Hlinka.
He has garnered great recognition for his powerful and insightful playing, and for his innovative concert programmes. With brilliant technique and a particularly poetic expression, he creates an interpretation that makes the audience experience familiar works anew.
Program
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
The Mountain Maid. Song Cycle from Arne Garborg's "Haugtussa", Op. 67
Practical information
The concert ticket also includes entrance to the museum.
Duration: 60 minutes.
Foto: Per Dreyer