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Track Listings
| 1. Illalle (To evening), op. 17 no. 6 |
| 2. Den judiska flickans sang (The Jewish girl's song), from "Belshazzar's Feast", op. 51 |
| 3. Six Songs, op. 36 |
| 4. Jag ar ett trad (I am a tree), op. 57 no. 5 |
| 5. Necken (The watersprite, or The elf-king), op. 57 no. 8 |
| 6. Five Songs, op. 37 |
| 7. Vem styrde hit din vag? (Who has brought you here?), op. 90 no. 6 |
| 8. Norden (The north), op. 90 no. 1 |
| 9. Six Songs, op. 50 |
| 10. Varen flyktar hastigt (Spring is flying), op. 13 no. 4 |
| 11. Under strandens granar (Under the fir-trees), op. 13 no. 1 |
On this CD:
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(6) Songs
Composed by Jean Sibelius
with Julius Drake, Katarina Karnéus
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Belshazzar's Feast
Composed by Jean Sibelius
with Julius Drake, Katarina Karnéus
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(6) Songs
Composed by Jean Sibelius
with Julius Drake, Katarina Karnéus
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(5) Songs
Composed by Jean Sibelius
with Julius Drake, Katarina Karnéus
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(6) Songs
Composed by Jean Sibelius
with Julius Drake, Katarina Karnéus
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
By rights, Sibelius should be up there with the big boys--Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf--in the song stakes. He has such a formidable ability to convey the meaning of a text through his music, transporting the listener into another world. Here we find the young Swedish mezzo, Katerina Karnéus, tackling some of his greatest offerings in the genre (the op. 50 set in particular). Karnéus first made waves when she won Cardiff Singer of the World in 1995 and in this repertoire she's entirely at home, particularly as most of Sibelius's songs use Swedish texts, the language of his childhood.
By rights, Sibelius should be up there with the big boys--Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf--in the song stakes. He has such a formidable ability to convey the meaning of a text through his music, transporting the listener into another world. Here we find the young Swedish mezzo, Katerina Karnéus, tackling some of his greatest offerings in the genre (the op. 50 set in particular). Karnéus first made waves when she won Cardiff Singer of the World in 1995 and in this repertoire she's entirely at home, particularly as most of Sibelius's songs use Swedish texts, the language of his childhood.
Her rich, creamy mezzo is expressive but never overbearing, and particularly effective in such numbers as "Sigh, sedges, sigh" which demands brilliance on the part of the pianist as well as the singer. That she's versatile is demonstrated by her mastery of songs as dissimilar as the pent-up, glowering "Watersprite", the stately grandeur of "The March Snow" and the rapturous "First Kiss". And in those later, German-texted op. 50 songs, where Sibelius's language has become even more economical, even more potent, Karnéus is at one with the tone of supposed lost love in "In the field a maiden sings" and the sparse, Schubertian "The Silent Town". Throughout, Julius Drake is splendid, and the recording brings the performers comfortably into your living room. --Harriet Smith
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