Folketoner Det Norske Jentekor & Anne Karin Sundal-Ask

• Geirr Tveitt / arr. Linn Andrea Fuglseth / adapted by Anne Karin Sundal-Ask:
• 1 Velkomne med æra 02:52
• Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen / text Anders Vassbotn:
• 2 Å leva 02:05
• Folk melody from Hallingdal / arr. Linn Andrea Fuglseth / text Bernt Støylen / adapted by Anne Karin Sundal-Ask:
• 3 Eg veit i himmerik ei borg 02:52
• This folk melody from Valdres is featured in Knut Nystedt’s Five Songs for Female Choir. e text tells of a fatally ill girl who desperately wants to live:
• 4 Torø liti 02:10
• Folk melody from Seljord / Knut Nystedt / text Magnus Brostrup Landstad:
• 5 Neslandskyrkja 03:28
• Folk song from Vågå / arr. Knut Nystedt. “Jeg lagde meg så sildig”:
• 6 Jeg lagde meg så sildig 02:42
• Edvard Grieg / text Nordahl Rolfsen / arr. Knut Nystedt:
• 7 Fola, fola Blakken (Kveldssang for Blakken) 02:45
• Edvard Grieg / text Aasmund Olavsson Vinje / arr. Carl Bertil Agnestig:
• 8 Ved Rondane 02:44
• Edvard Grieg / text Aasmund Olavsson Vinje / arr. Else Berntsen Aas:
• 9 Våren 04:35
• Gjendine Slålien / Edvard Grieg / text Per Mathisson O vid / arr. Gunnar Eriksson:
• 10 Gjendines bådnlåt 03:36
• Norwegian lullaby / arr. Steinar Eielsen:
• 11 So ro godt barn 01:23
• Lullaby from Vestfold / arr. Tone Krohn:
• 12 So ro stubberusken min 03:11
• Dance tune from Vestfold / arr. Tone Krohn:
• 13 Springdans 01:41
• Comic ballad from the Middle Ages / arr. Tone Krohn:
• 14 Det lisle bånet 03:52
• Trad. from Vestfold / arr. Tone Krohn:
• 15 Lokkerop og laling 03:25
• Total Runtime 43:21

Info for Folketoner

In this recording, we have chosen Norwegian folk songs, music from the national romantic tradition and hymns that we love to sing. Some of the songs have been specially arranged for this album, while others have been part and parcel of the choir's repertoire for a long time — in fact from before some of the choir's present members were even born. You can hear beautiful lullabies and some of the choir's favourite Grieg songs; you can hear songs full of charm and songs full of gravity, songs of love and songs of sorrow, songs of birth and songs of death.

Det Norske Jentekor
Anne Karin Sundal-Ask, conductor

Det Norske Jentekor
The Norwegian Girls Choir is a choir with proud traditions as an independent continuation of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s girl choir, which was established in 1947. In addition to singing the core repertoire for equal voices, the choir has always specialized in contemporary music and folk music. Several of Norway’s foremost composers have created music for it, and few other choirs get to premier so many pieces. The choir also shows its strong social and global engagement through its repertoire and choice of locations, and it is also initiating many genre-eliminating musical encounters. It has released 5 albums and its recording Folketoner from 2018 was Grammy-nominated for Best Immersive Album.

The Norwegian Girls Choir has always been, and still is, an important institution in Norwegian cultural life, and has fostered a large number of professional singers and artists, many of them well known. The choir’s main ambition is to act as a choir school enabling girls to develop independent musicianship and to reach a level of musical expression that touches themselves as much as their audiences. This gives them, as musicians, understanding, experience and curiosity – qualities which serve them well in their professional lives as singers, and in other capacities contributing to cultural life.

Anne Karin Sundal-Ask
has been conductor and artistic leader of the Norwegian Girls Choir since the spring of 2005. She studied conducting, flute and music pedagogy at the Music Conservatory in Trondheim and at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Sundal-Ask has received many honours for her direction of choirs, and she has led many choirs to notable results in international competitions. She received the “Performer of the Year” award for 2019 from the Norwegian Society of Composers. As artistic director of the Norwegian Girls Choir she has commissioned new music, and collaborated closely with many Norwegian composers. She is willing to let young people in their most formative years participate in the creative process of performing new works and thus contribute directly to the quality of their music-making. This approach also helps young people develop a broad musicianship. She is described as an inspiring leader who, while always striving after quality, also conveys her musical goals to the singers so that each and every one of them can perform optimally. Her focus on intonation, timbre and ensemble work is one of her hallmarks, and she works continuously to develop the choir’s musical expression.

Booklet for Folketoner