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Mit vierzig Jahren - Lieder
Johannes Brahms

Håvard Stensvold

Mit vierzig Jahren - Lieder

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Format: CD
Label: Lawo Classics
UPC: 7090020180915
Catnr: LWC 1079
Release date: 10 April 2015
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Label
Lawo Classics
UPC
7090020180915
Catalogue number
LWC 1079
Release date
10 April 2015
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TURNING-FORTY CRISIS À LA BRAHMS
Following the success of “Vinterreise” (LWC1013), featuring a Norwegian version of Schubert’s song cycle, Håvard Stensvold and Tor Espen Aspaas have now released their second album on the LAWO Classics label—“Mit vierzig Jahren”. This time we are offered up the songs of Johannes Brahms with their original German texts. The album title is taken from one of the songs, which gives rise to the turning-forty crisis: “At age forty you are standing on the mountain top, and, before you know it, your life is over.” Stensvold (43) and Aspaas (43) have both made it through this juncture, and on this recording they have collected some of Brahms’s finest, from the
wonderful narrative songs to the more intimate and tender. A favourite is “Mondnacht”, which has a more famous half brother in Schumann’s version.

Artist(s)

Håvard Stensvold

The Norwegian bass-baritone, Håvard Stensvold, began his interest for singing very early. Already at a very early age he was singing soprano with the Norwegian boys choir Sølvguttene. He studied from 1994 at the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen with Professor Susanna Eken, and from 1998 in the soloist class at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory. He graduated in the summer of 2000. Among his teachers were also Ingrid Bjoner and Håkan Hagegård. Håvard Stensvold made his debut at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen as Masetto in Don Giovanni in 1997. Recent opera engagements have included Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo in Così Fan Tutte, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Zuniga in Carmen, and The Wooden Soldier in The Doll Doctor at the Norwegian National Opera, Masetto in Don...
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The Norwegian bass-baritone, Håvard Stensvold, began his interest for singing very early. Already at a very early age he was singing soprano with the Norwegian boys choir Sølvguttene. He studied from 1994 at the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen with Professor Susanna Eken, and from 1998 in the soloist class at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory. He graduated in the summer of 2000. Among his teachers were also Ingrid Bjoner and Håkan Hagegård.
Håvard Stensvold made his debut at the Royal Theater in Copenhagen as Masetto in Don Giovanni in 1997. Recent opera engagements have included Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo in Così Fan Tutte, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Zuniga in Carmen, and The Wooden Soldier in The Doll Doctor at the Norwegian National Opera, Masetto in Don Giovanni at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, the title role in Don Giovanni in staged performances with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Guglielmo in Così Fan Tutte at the Fynske Opera in Odense, Denmark, Figaro in Le Nozze Di Figaro in Copenhagen, and Marullo in Rigoletto at the Nordland Music Festival, Norway.
Håvard Stensvold regularly works with conductors such as Andrew Litton, Michel Plasson, Patrick Fournillier, Fabio Biondi, Paul Goodwin, Roland Böer, Francesco Corti, Bruno Weil and Lars Ulrik Mortensen. He has worked as a soloist with Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra and also held a series of concerts at the Oslo Chamber Music Festival and in Purcell concerts at the Early Music Festival in Bruges in Belgium.
He is a much sought after concert, oratorio, and recital singer. He has a vast repertoire with a wide range of music. He spends considerable time singing contemporary music and we should mention his appearance in world premiers of Kjell Habbestad's opera The Maid Of Norway in Bergen, Norway, Svend Hvidtfelt Nielsen opera The Little Mermaid, and The Soldier in the world premiere of Palmar Johansen's Madonna Furiosa.
He has also sung in the opera Dokkedoktoren by Bengt Perry.
Engagements in the 2007-2008 season include Zebul in George Frideric Handel's Jephta with the conductor Fabio Biondi, Polyphemos in G.F. Handel's Acis And Galatea at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der alten Musik and at the Early Music Festival in Bruges, Mercurio / Famigliaro II / Littore and Tribuno II in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione Di Poppea at the Royal Danish Opera, concerts with opera arias with the Norwegian National Opera, J.S. Bach's St. John Passion (BWV 245) with the conductor Paul Goodwin, J.S. Bach's Mass in G Minor (BWV 232) as well as Jan Dismas Zelenka's Missa Dei Filii in Malaga, Cádiz, Las Palmas, Tenerife and Copenhagen with the conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen, J.S. Bach's Cantata BWV 49 Ich geh und suche mit verlangen at the Fartein Valen Festival, J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor (BWV 232) in Bodoe, G.F. Handel's Messiah in Copenhagen and Sarpsborg, J.S. Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243) and Himmelfahrts Oratorium (BWV 11) in Trondheim.
Other upcoming engagements include Baritone in the world premier of Cecilie Ore's Dead Beat Escapement at the Norwegian National Opera, Fago's Il Faraone Sommerso in Spain, Italy, Poland with the conductor Fabio Biondi, Mozart's Requiem with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and the conductor Muhai Tang, J. Haydn's Theresienmesse with Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the conductor Robin Ticciati, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, David in the world premier of Staale Kleiberg's David And Bathsheba in Trondheim, and concerts with music by Purcell at the Flanders Festival Bruges.

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Composer(s)

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the 'Three Bs' of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.   Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become...
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Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.
Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Within his meticulous structures is embedded, however, a highly romantic nature.

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01.
Treue Liebe, Op. 7, no. 1
02:21
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold
02.
Von ewiger Liebe, Op. 43, no. 1
04:41
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold
03.
Der Gang zum Liebchen, Op. 48, no. 1
01:24
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold
04.
Vergebliches Ständchen, Op. 84, no. 4
01:40
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold
05.
Spannung, Op. 84, no. 5
02:28
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
06.
Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen, Op. 32, no. 2
02:32
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
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Verzagen, Op. 72, no. 4
02:20
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
08.
Salamander, Op. 107, no. 2
00:58
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
09.
In den Beeren, Op. 84, no. 3
01:28
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
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Mondnacht
02:50
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
11.
Wie rafft' ich mich, Op. 32, no. 1
03:58
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
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Schön war, das ich dir weihte, Op. 95, no. 7
01:49
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
13.
O kühler Wald, Op. 72, no. 3
02:06
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
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Der Überläufer, Op. 48, no. 2
01:24
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
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Verrat, Op. 105, no. 5
03:22
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
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Sapphische Ode, Op. 94, no. 4
02:30
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
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Sommerabend, Op. 85, no. 1
02:33
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
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Muss es eine Trennung geben, Op. 33, no. 12
02:20
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
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Mit vierzig Jahren, Op. 94, no. 1
03:18
(Johannes Brahms, Johannes Brahms) Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas, Håvard Stensvold, Tor Espen Aspaas
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