Tveitt: 100 Folk-Tunes From Hardanger, Suite No. 4: Wedding Suite / Suite No. 5: Troll Tunes
7/1/2004, 31 Tracks, 1:14:08
Featuring
Ole Kristian Ruud
Stavanger Symfoniorkester
Geirr Tveitt
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Performer Biography
Ole Kristian Ruud, the conductor, has received several prestigious awards, including the Grieg Prize (1992) and the Norwegian Critics Prize (1993).
Composer's Artistic Vision
Tveitt's Op. 151, 'Hundrad hardingtonar' (A Hundred Folk-tunes from Hardanger), reflects the Hardanger people's close relationship with their landscape and nature, including its dark aspects.
Compositional Technique
The 'Troll Tunes' (Trolltonar) suite features the Hardanger fiddle, which can be 'troll-tuned' (trollstemt) to produce very mournful notes, especially noticeable in this suite.
Compositional Technique
In the 'Wedding Suite' (Brudlaups-suiten), the movement 'Fyllesnakk' (Drunken talk) is a grotesque expression of Geirr Tveitt's contempt for atonal music.
Composition History
The composer's home in Hardanger, along with his musical treasures, including the rest of Op. 151 and his original melody notations, was destroyed in a fire in 1970.
Compositional Technique
Geirr Tveitt sometimes composed his own 'folk melodies' for the collection when no provenance was indicated, and these fit seamlessly into the overall work.
Composer Biography
Geirr Tveitt, the composer, began collecting and notating folk melodies from Hardanger at the age of sixteen, sung by elderly people in his neighborhood.
