Knut Nystedt - Andrew Smith - Lansing D. McLoskey - Henning Sommerro - Kim André Arnesen - Abraham Kaplan - Yehezkel Braun - Nana Forte - Frank Havrøy - Henrik Ødegaard - Dov Carmel

Of Light and Dust

Kammerkoret NOVA

Label: Lawo Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 7090020181905

Catalog number: LWC 1168
Releasedate: 08-02-19

- The young conductor Yuval Weinberg, has already received many international awards!
- NOVA Chamber Choir endeavours to develop concert programmes that provide its audiences with unforgettable experiences, and provide the ensemble and its individual singers with musical challenges to grow on. They also received many international awards for their performances.
- Mari Askvik (b. 1988) is in much demand, both as a soloist and as an ensemble singer. She holds a position with the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir and with the early music ensemble “Christian IV’s Vokalensemble” in Copenhagen, Denmark

#contemporary music
#religious texts
#folk music
#Scandinavian poetry
#Christian
#Jewish

Much music and poetry has been written around the themes of faith and doubt. This is our point of departure. Throughout the millennia, humankind has fought over differences of religious, as well as non-religious, conviction. Yet hope is a fundamental aspect of any faith, a common resonance in spite of all differences. We have selected a variety of expressions of faith and doubt. Religious pieces from both Jewish and Christian traditions, mainly based on texts from outside the official liturgy and ceremony, are contrasted with pieces declaring faith in humankind and life before death.

Musically we have chosen to focus on contemporary music, through original compositions and new arrangements based on folk music.

In an ever more interwoven world, where cultures and faiths intersect and clash to an ever-increasing degree, we hope to lift up what unites us.

If you receive my words