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Description
Ketil Bjørnstad's passion for the English metaphysical poet John Donne (1572-1631) is a lifelong affair. The Norwegian pianist-composer's settings of Donne's verse have led to recordings including The Shadow, Grace, the ECM album The Light, and now this important disc."After working with the texts of John Donne for more than twenty years, I still find new approaches to understanding what he wrote and I find music throughout. It is in the language, in the rhythm, in the silence between the sentences - a passionate quest for meaning and reconciliation. Donne's dramatic life is reflected in the texts and everywhere in them you will find the passion, melodies and sounds".
Bjørnstad wrote 'A Passion for John Donne' for the Oslo International Church Festival in the winter of 2011/2012 and the premiere performance - documented here - was at the Sofienberg Kirke in Oslo in March 2012. The Oslo Chamber Choir is sensitively directed by Håkon Daniel Nystedt, and passion is personified in the unique performance of Håkon Kornstad, who makes his ECM debut, as both tenor saxophonist and classical tenor singer.
Over the years, Bjørnstad has been a highly prolific creator, with more than 50 albums and 40 books to his name. The Oslo-born pianist, composer, improviser, novelist, poet and essayist, described by The Guardian as "a cultural prodigy", has been an ECM recording artist since 1993, when his 'Water Stories' album was issued. Other ECM recordings include 'The Sea', 'The River', 'The Sea II', 'Epigraphs', 'Life In Leipzig', 'The Light', 'Remembrance', 'Night Song', 'Vinding's Music - Songs From The Alder Thicket', 'La notte', his tribute to film director Antonioni, and 'Sunrise', a cantata on texts by Edvard Munch.
Personnel: Ketil Bjørnstad (piano), Håkon Kornstad (saxophone, flute, voice), Birger Mistereggen (percussion), Oslo Chamber Choir, Håkon Daniel Nystedt (conductor)
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Tracklisting
- 1. Introitus - a passion for John Donne
- 2. Thou hast made me
- 3. A fever
- 4. Death, be not proud
- 5. Interlude no.1
- 6. The legacy
- 7. Batter my heart, three personed God
- 8. A nocturnal upon St.Lucy's day
- 9. Farewell to love
- 10. Interlude no.2
- 11. Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt
- 12. A valediction, forbidden mourn
- 13. Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in
- 14. Interlude no.3
- 15. There we leave you
Disc 1
Side 1
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La notte
Ketil Bjornstad
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Nightwalker
Ketil Bjornstad
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Hun Som Kjenner Tristheten Ved Ting
Ketil Bjornstad, Eva Bjerga Haugen & Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold
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The Sea II
Ketil Bjornstad, David Darling, Jon Christensen & Terje Rypdal
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Between Hotels and Time
Ketil Bjornstad, Lars Saabye Christensen, Anneli Drecker
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New Morning
Ketil Bjornstad
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The World I Used To Know
Ketil Bjornstad
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Rainbow Sessions - New Edition
Ketil Bjornstad
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Angel Song
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland & Bill Frisell
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Silent, Listening
Fred Hersch
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Azimuth
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Luminessence - Music for String Orchestra and Saxophone
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Afric Pepperbird
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Words Unspoken
John Surman
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The Blue Land
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