VALEN: Complete Songs

Catalog Number: PSC1168
Label: Simax
Format: CD

Categories: Vocal Music
Classical Periods: 20th Century

Composers: Fartein Valen
Directors: Christian Eggen
Performers: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Hakon Austbo, Siri Torjesen

Available: 34
Price: $15.99

Fartein Valen (1887-1952)

Complete Songs

Siri Torjensen, soprano

Tracks 1-9
Håkon Austbø, piano

Tracks 10-16
Christian Eggen
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Valen is a composer worth our attention; one who used classical forms and whose work should be carefully studied, particularly his orchestral pieces and Sonnets of Michelangelo. He was a composer who was independent and did not kow-tow to the acceptable norm. Indeed, he is the first truly original Norwegian composer of note.

	Track Listing	Time
	Gedichte con Goethe, op.6
1	Sakontala	1:29
2	Weiss wie Lilien	1:42
3	Suleika	1:44
	Zwei Lieder, op.31
4	Horch wie Murmeln des Empörten Meeres (Schiller)	1:56
5	Anakreons Grab (Goethe)	2:14
	Zwei Lieder, op.39
6	Denk' es, o Seele (Möricke)	2:47
7	Tretet leise zu meinem Grabe (old epitaph)	1:37
	Mignon. Zwei Gedichte con Goethe, op.7
8	So lasst mich scheinen (with piano)	3:34
9	Heiss mich nicht reden (with piano)	3:02
10	So lasst mich scheinen (with orchestra)	3:35
11	Heiss mich nicht reden (with orchestra)	3:04
12	Ave Maria, op.4	6:57
	Zwei Chinesisches Gedichte, op.8
13	In Erwartung des Freundes (Mong-Kao-Yen/Bethge)	5:18
14	Der Abschied des Freundes (Wang-Wei/Bethge)	3:16
15	Darest Thou Now, O Soul, op.9 (Whitman)	4:33
16	Die Dunkle Nacht der Selle, op.32 (de la Cruz)	7:04