SKU: HL.50602310
UPC: 840126906530.
Schubert Lounge for Soprano, 2 Baritones and Ensemble was commissioned by Oslo Sinfonietta. Franz Schubert was a singer/songwriter, says Eivind Buene. A Schubertiade as a role model, the composer - who himself grew up with pop music - imagined Schubert in the singer/songwriter pose of the 70s: with a Fender Rhodes and the voice of a pop singer. So, he staged his first Schubert Lounges for his friends in Oslo. Inspired by one of these house concerts, baritone Halvor Mellen suggested Buene that they could work together as singers.Eivind Buene is interested in this friction between different aesthetics and different systems of thought. In the further developed Schubert Lounge, three different musical styles meet: Buene's own recontextualized version of Schubert songs, Halvor Mellen's interpretation of Buene's music composed for his voice based on fragments from Schubert's diary, and Tora Augestad's very personal interpretation of Schubert songs.
SKU: HL.49047293
ISBN 9798350118797.
Who doesn't know the famous Mainz carnival song “Heile, heale Gänsje”. It became a comforting song that is sung on all sorts of occasions. Wolfgang Birtel takes the melody on a humorous journey through music history, transforming it - more or less hidden - into the guise of famous composers. So “Heile, heile Gänsje” appears in the little sentences sometimes with a powdered Bach wig or at the court ball with Johann Strauss, with Haydn at Fürst Esterházy or at the Schubertiade, etc. Humor is the trump card in these parodies, which involve enjoyable music-making in a string quartet - ad libitum with double bass – guaranteed.
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