Hardanger

Janice has put together a collection of small Christmas designs that would also make wonderful suncatchers and box tops. In addition to the photograph of the finished item and chart, she also provides the finishing instructions to make ornaments, cones, crackers, tree skirt, stockings, angels, and santas. Janice provides in depth diagrams on how to do the Lacy Edge and Greek Cross.

The spirit of adventure, braggadocio and tall stories… for her second album on the Berlin Classics label, the Norwegian violinist and Hardanger fiddler Ragnhild Hemsing has chosen to focus on one of Norway’s best known and most legendary characters: Peer Gynt. Although her solo instruments are not part of the original orchestra formation, she chose various sections of the incidental music to the stage play of Peer Gynt op. 23 and had them arranged for her Hardanger fiddle and the violin with string orchestra accompaniment – thereby creating a link to the traditional story of Peer Gynt in the context of Norwegian folk music.

VA - For Borgere Og Bønder (Folkelig Musikk Fra Gamle Norske Notebøker)
VA - For Citizens & Peasants - Popular Tunes from the 18th Century Music Books
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 301 MB | Full Artwork: 116 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: PolyGram # NKFCD 50025-2 | Country/Year: Norway 1989
Genre: World, Folk, (Classical) | Style: Scandinavian Folk, (Secular, Baroque)

"…Before 1840, there were limited written sources of folk music in Norway. Originally these historical attainments were believed to have a distinct Christian influence. As research continued, there was also mythical and fairy tale connections to the folk music. Overall the purpose of folk music was for entertainment and dancing. Norwegian folk music may be divided into two categories: instrumental and vocal. As a rule instrumental folk music is dance music (slåtter). Norwegian folk dances are social dances and usually performed by couples, although there are a number of solo dances as well, such as the halling. Norway has very little of the ceremonial dance characteristic of other cultures. Dance melodies may be broken down into two types: two-beat and three-beat dances. The former are called halling, gangar or rull, whereas the latter are springar or springleik…"

Tales from Norway transforms musical stories from Norwegian folk traditions into new compositions that defy genre-related labelling and envision a broader, bolder concept of “contemporary music”.