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Aksel! Arias by Bach, Handel & Mozart
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Aksel Rykkvin

Aksel! Arias by Bach, Handel & Mozart

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212043523
Catnr: SIGCD 435
Release date: 07 October 2016
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Signum Classics
UPC
0635212043523
Catalogue number
SIGCD 435
Release date
07 October 2016
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Norwegian boy-soprano Aksel Rykkvin has quickly built a reputation as a rare talent, combining an intelligent musicality with a beautifully resonant treble voice. On his debut recording he is accompanied by The Orchestra of the Age on Enlightenment under Nigel Short (leader of award-winning chamber choir Tenebrae), in a selection of arias by JS Bach, Handel and Mozart. Many of the arias performed are considered too technically demanding for boy singers in the present day – in particular Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate which was composed for the castrato Venunzio Rauzzini, and several of Bach’s Cantatas which were written at a time when singers often maintained their treble voices until the ages of 16 or 17.

Noorse jongenssopraan met een prachtige stem zingt ongewoon repertoire
De Noorse jongenssopraan Aksel Rykkvin heeft snel een reputatie als zeldzaam talent opgebouwd, en combineert intelligente muzikaliteit met een prachtig weerklinkende sopraanstem. Op zijn debuutalbum wordt hij begeleid door The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment onder leiding van Nigel Short in een selectie aria’s van Johann Sebastian Bach, Händel en Mozart.

Veel van de aria’s die worden uitgevoerd worden tegenwoordig als te veeleisend beschouwd voor jonge zangers, in het bijzonder Mozarts Exsultate Jubilate, dat gecomponeerd werd voor de castrato Venunzio Rauzzini, en verschillende cantates van Bach, die gecomponeerd werden in de tijd dat jongens vaak tot aan hun zestiende of zeventiende hun sopraanstem behielden.

De twaalfjarige Aksel Rykkvin laat echter horen dat hij in staat is om de technische zekerheid en muzikale rijpheid die Bach van zijn tienersolisten vereiste te bereiken, en dat hij geen probleem heeft om in Exsultate Jubilate zowel het enthousiasme van de jonge Mozart als de technische prestaties van de oudere Rauzzini te vangen!

Artist(s)

Aksel Rykkvin (vocals)

Norwegian treble Aksel Rykkvin (b. 2003) recorded his debut album with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at just twelve years old. Aksel! Arias by Bach, Handel & Mozart (2016) was awarded a DIAPASON ‘d'Or découverte’, and BBC Music Magazine named him as one of the ‘six best child prodigies’ in classical music. Aksel was nominated as ‘Newcomer of the year’ at the Spellemannprisen awards in Norway in 2017. Aksel has performed at numerous concerts and festivals all over Norway, including Fjord Classics and Oslo Chamber Music Festival. In 2017, he opened the Stockholm Early Music Festival and performed at the Klassiek op het Amstelveld in Amsterdam. He has performed several times on radio or tv in Norway, Sweden,...
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Norwegian treble Aksel Rykkvin (b. 2003) recorded his debut album with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at just twelve years old. Aksel! Arias by Bach, Handel & Mozart (2016) was awarded a DIAPASON ‘d'Or découverte’, and BBC Music Magazine named him as one of the ‘six best child prodigies’ in classical music. Aksel was nominated as ‘Newcomer of the year’ at the Spellemannprisen awards in Norway in 2017. Aksel has performed at numerous concerts and festivals all over Norway, including Fjord Classics and Oslo Chamber Music Festival. In 2017, he opened the Stockholm Early Music Festival and performed at the Klassiek op het Amstelveld in Amsterdam. He has performed several times on radio or tv in Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK, including Scandinavia’s biggest talkshow, ‘Skavlan’, and BBC Radio 3 ‘In tune’. Aksel has sung for the Norwegian Royal family on several occasions, including at the 80 years anniversary party of the King and Queen with a host of European royalty present. He has worked with the Oslo Philharmonic, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Arve Tellefsen, Henning Kraggerud, Håvard Gimse, Christian Ihle Hadland, Lars Anders Tomter, Rolf Lislevand, Sigmund Groven and many more of the most prominent Norwegian orchestras, classical musicians and conductors. Aksel is something of an international phenomenon in social media, with millions of video views on YouTube and Facebook.
At 13 years old Aksel won the Norwegian Music Competition for Youth, which is open to classical musicians and singers up to age 22.
Aksel is already a merited soloist at the Norwegian National Opera. The Financial Times described him as “freakishly good” in his first main stage role as ‘the Boy’ in Rolf Wallin’s Elysium. He dazzled critics further as ‘Yniold’ in Debussy’s Pélleas et Mélisande, a performance that ResMusica called ‘unsurpassable’. In September 2017 Aksel made his international opera debut at Opéra Comique in Paris, as ‘Anthony’ in Katie Mitchell and Raphaël Pichon’s Miranda.
Aksel still sings in Oslo Cathedral Boys’ Choir where he started out receiving training as a five-year-old from voice teacher Helene Haarr. When he started singing in the Children’s Chorus of the Norwegian National Opera at the age of ten, Aksel began singing studies with his present main voice teacher Marianne Lewis both in the opera and in the classical music talent class at Majorstuen school in Oslo. Aksel’s voice changed in the autumn of 2017 and he now continues to sing as a baritone, training to pursue a career as a classical and opera singer.

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Nigel Short (conductor)

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01.
Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
04:14
Aksel Rykkvin, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
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Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
04:14
Aksel Rykkvin, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
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Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68: Mein gläubiges Herze
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Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, BWV 68: Mein gläubiges Herze
03:00
Aksel Rykkvin, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
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Joshua, HWV 64: Happy, oh thrice happy we
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Joshua, HWV 64: Happy, oh thrice happy we
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Aksel Rykkvin, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
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Alcina, HWV 34: Chi m'insegna il caro padre?
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Alcina, HWV 34: Chi m'insegna il caro padre?
03:25
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Alcina, HWV 34: Barbara! io ben lo so
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Alcina, HWV 34: Barbara! io ben lo so
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Rinaldo, HWV 7: Lascia ch'io pianga
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Rinaldo, HWV 7: Lascia ch'io pianga
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St. John Passion, BWV 245: Ich folge Dir gleichfalls
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St. John Passion, BWV 245: Ich folge Dir gleichfalls
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Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74: Eternal Source of Light Divine
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Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74: Eternal Source of Light Divine
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Bist du bei mir, BWV 508
02:39
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Bist du bei mir, BWV 508
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Messiah, HWV 56: How beautiful are the feet of Him that bringeth glad tidings of salvation
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Messiah, HWV 56: How beautiful are the feet of Him that bringeth glad tidings of salvation
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Messiah, HWV 56: Thou art gone up on high
02:58
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Messiah, HWV 56: Thou art gone up on high
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Samson, HWV 57: Let the bright Seraphim in burning row
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Samson, HWV 57: Let the bright Seraphim in burning row
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Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Quia Respexit
02:44
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Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: Quia Respexit
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Der zufriedengestellte Äolus, Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft, BWV 205: Angenehmer Zephyrus
04:12
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Der zufriedengestellte Äolus, Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Gruft, BWV 205: Angenehmer Zephyrus
04:12
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Joshua, HWV 64: Oh! Had I Jubal's lyre
02:44
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Joshua, HWV 64: Oh! Had I Jubal's lyre
02:44
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Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Voi, che sapete che cosa e amor
02:46
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Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Voi, che sapete che cosa e amor
02:46
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Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Aria Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio
02:39
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Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Aria Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio
02:39
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Exsultate jubilate, K. 165: Alleluia
02:28
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Exsultate jubilate, K. 165: Alleluia
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