Katarina Karnéus, Julius Drake - Edvard Grieg: Songs (2008)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 67:54 | 270 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: CDA67670
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 67:54 | 270 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Hyperion | Catalog: CDA67670
The musical world has not lacked for singers to interpret the songs of Edvard Grieg, starting with the composer's wife Nina and moving through the sublime Kirsten Flagstad to the sensual Anne Sofie von Otter. Grieg's songs have been well served by sopranos and mezzo-sopranos. In her second disc for Hyperion, Swedish mezzo Katarina Karnéus performs 25 of Grieg's 180 songs. Some are nearly folk songs sung in Norwegian; some are true art songs in German; but all are deeply expressive, highly emotional, and, in these performances, entirely successful.