Olav Kielland: Chamber Works - Her vil eg kvile Tor Johan Bøen, Eirik Haug Stømner, Fragaria Vesca

• Olav Kielland (1901 - 1985): String Quartet (Quartetto per due violini, viola e violoncello), Op. 22:
• 1 Kielland: String Quartet (Quartetto per due violini, viola e violoncello), Op. 22: I. Allegro moderato 07:14
• 2 Kielland: String Quartet (Quartetto per due violini, viola e violoncello), Op. 22: II. Adagio sostenuto 06:33
• 3 Kielland: String Quartet (Quartetto per due violini, viola e violoncello), Op. 22: III. Allegro impetuoso 06:56
• 7 Fiddle Tunes, Op. 12:
• 4 Kielland: 7 Fiddle Tunes, Op. 12: a. Raudmyr-hallingen, Poco pesante 01:42
• 5 Kielland: 7 Fiddle Tunes, Op. 12: b. Tjøstul Blesterbakken, Allegro moderato 03:23
• 6 Kielland: 7 Fiddle Tunes, Op. 12: b. Eskvam-halling 01:05
• 7 Kielland: 7 Fiddle Tunes, Op. 12: c. Tussane i Raudmyr, Allegro capriccioso 02:23
• 8 Kielland: 7 Fiddle Tunes, Op. 12: d. Vetlvonsbruri 01:16
• 9 Kielland: 7 Fiddle Tunes, Op. 12: f. Halling 02:28
• 10 Kielland: 7 Fiddle Tunes, Op. 12: g. Krokbakkjen 01:57
• Tvileikar, 5 cacce per 4 strumenti ad libitum, Op. 19:
• 11 Kielland: Tvileikar, 5 cacce per 4 strumenti ad libitum, Op. 19: No. 1, Andante con moto 01:18
• 12 Kielland: Tvileikar, 5 cacce per 4 strumenti ad libitum, Op. 19: No. 2, Moderato 01:05
• 13 Kielland: Tvileikar, 5 cacce per 4 strumenti ad libitum, Op. 19: No. 3, Allegro moderato 01:08
• 14 Kielland: Tvileikar, 5 cacce per 4 strumenti ad libitum, Op. 19: No. 4, Adagio 02:21
• 15 Kielland: Tvileikar, 5 cacce per 4 strumenti ad libitum, Op. 19: No. 5, Allegro 00:58
• Air for violin and piano:
• 16 Kielland: Air for violin and piano: Andante con moto 01:49
• Serenade for violin and piano:
• 17 Kielland: Serenade for violin and piano: Allegretto 02:03
• Porbjörgs melodi for violin and piano:
• 18 Kielland: Porbjörgs melodi for violin and piano: Poco allegro 01:25
• Ernas melodi for violin and piano:
• 19 Kielland: Ernas melodi for violin and piano: Andante 01:04
• Melodia per strumenti a corda, Op. 15b:
• 20 Kielland: Melodia per strumenti a corda, Op. 15b: Poco adagio 04:44
• Total Runtime 52:52

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This release brings seven world premieres of chamber music and Hardanger fiddle compositions by Olav Kielland, one of Norway’s most significant yet rarely performed composers. Inspired by myths and poetry, his works have been rediscovered through the meticulous research of violinist and musicologist Tor Johan Bøen, who has prepared new editions from Kielland’s manuscripts. Now, these long-hidden musical “wild seeds” are finally reaching a wider audience, marking a major event in the international music world.

Seven world premieres appear on this release with the Norwegian composer Olav Kielland’s chamber music works and compositions for Hardanger fiddle. The compositions for Hardanger fiddle were rediscovered in 2019. Kielland was an exceptional orchestra conductor and one of Norway’s most important composers. His music is often inspired by myths and poetry and is rarely performed. This recording is based on the violinist and musicologist Tor Johan Bøen’s research, and he has made most of the new editions used for this recording based on the composer’s manuscripts, making Kielland’s unknown musical «wild seeds» much more accessible to a wider audience. The release of these works is a major event in the international world of music.

Fragaria Vesca
Tor Johan Bøen, violin
Eirik Haug Stømner, piano

Fragaria Vesca
Founded by Tor Johan Bøen in 2006, Fragaria Vesca is a flexible chamber music ensemble dedicated to the performance of music from a variety of styles and periods on original instruments, spanning repertoire from the Baroque to the 20th century. The motivation behind this approach is that historically informed performances on appropriate instruments place the music in its natural context. The ensemble's projects are also often related to new musical research. June 2010

Tor Johan Bøen
b. 1971) has a unique position in the world of Norwegian music, combining his career as concert violinist with musical research. He won the Norwegian competition for young violinists at age 13, and at 17 he joined the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. He studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music and continued his studies in the United States with Camilla Wicks at Louisiana State University and San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Sergiu Luca at Rice University in Houston, Texas where he graduated with a Doctorate of Musical Arts in 2005. Tor Johan Bøen is noted for his performances of music from the Baroque era to the early 20th century on original instruments as well as performances on modern violin. He is the founder of Fragaria Vesca, an ensemble dedicated to musical performance on original instruments. He is frequently guest concert master of different European orchestras. His research on the music of the Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe has resulted in numerous recordings and radio programs.

Olav Kielland
was born in Trondheim and studied architecture there from 1919–1921. From 1921– ca. 1923 Kielland studied composition and theory with Stephen Krehl and Otto Wittenbecher, and conducting with Otto Lohse at the Leipzig Conservatory of Music. He continued his conducting studies with Felix Weingartner, and Kielland gradually developed into an exceptionally skilled orchestral conductor, more appreciated outside Norway than from within.

Kielland mainly conducted the music of other composers. He composed for his friends and role models, drawing inspiration from composers, writers, philosophers and visual artists with whom he felt a spiritual connection. His early compositions were written in a late Romantic musical language, and gradually he developed a flexible modernist musical language with dissonant polyphony. From the mid-1920s his work with Norwegian contemporary music by composers such as Fartein Valen, Eivind Groven, Bjarne Brustad and David Monrad Johansen gave impulses to his own musical language. Around 1930 he began to study the traditional Hardanger fiddle tunes from the various Hardanger fiddle districts in Norway. He wanted to develop a personal musical language based on the modal harmonies of the folk music and the polyphonic possibilities of the Hardanger fiddle. Kielland moved to Bø in Telemark in the late summer of 1941, where he came into close contact with writers, storytellers, folk singers, fiddlers and nature. In this environment he found the inspiration for most of the works on this release.

Kielland developed a unique musical language, sitting as it does at the intersection between folk music and European musical modernism.

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