Sonata Norwegica

Caroline Eidsten Dahl, Ensemble Freithoff

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On “Sonata Norwegica” recorder player Caroline Eidsten Dahl and Ensemble Freithoff present three Norwegian composers and one who is Swedish: Johan Henrik Freithoff, Georg von Bertouch, Johan Daniel Berlin, and Henrik Phillip Johnsen. The ensemble has selected music written in Norway and Sweden around 250 years ago, and it is virtuosic, ardent and original.

Does a clear definition of Norwegian baroque music exist? Can one hear that the compositions on this recording are from Norway and Scandinavia? We believe the answer to both questions must remain ‘no’. This music was composed a hundred years before National Romanticism’s clear definition of national character. Even so, there is little doubt that being outside the centre of things can lead to a certain originality, perhaps more or less deliberately from the side of the composer.

In spring 2007 Caroline Eidsten Dahl (b. 1980) was one of three winners of Concerts Norway’s international programme “Intro-klassisk”. Since then she has distinguished herself as a soloist and chamber musician and has toured in Russia, China, India, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Her debut album on the LAWO Classics label, “Blockbird — Norwegian Recorder Music” (LWC1069), has received glowing reviews. “Sonata Norwegica” is her second album with LAWO.

Ensemble Freithoff is: Christiane Eidsten Dahl, baroque violinist; Kate Hearne, baroque cellist; and Vegard Lund on theorbo and baroque guitar.

Tracklist

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1.
Trio Sonata in G major - I. Allegro
02:42
2.
Trio Sonata in G major - II. Andante
03:11
3.
Trio Sonata in G major - III. Allegro
00:54
4.
Sonata in G major - I. Allegro
04:19
5.
Sonata in G major - II. Adagio
02:10
6.
Sonata in G major - III. Allegro ma non presto
04:49
7.
Trio Sonata No. 8 in G major - I. Vivace
01:32
8.
Trio Sonata No. 8 in G major - II. Adagio
01:40
9.
Trio Sonata No. 8 in G major - III. Andante
03:12
10.
Trio Sonata No. 14 in G minor - I. Largo
03:09
11.
Trio Sonata No. 14 in G minor - II. Andante
03:36
12.
Trio Sonata No. 14 in G minor - III. Adagio
01:08
13.
Trio Sonata No. 14 in G minor - IV. Vivace
01:24
14.
Sonata in E-flat major - I. Andante
03:45
15.
Sonata in E-flat major - II. Allegro
04:24
16.
Sonata in E-flat major - III. Menuet
05:01
17.
Trio Sonata in D major - I. Andante
05:43
18.
Trio Sonata in D major - II. Fuga alla breve. Vivace
02:19
19.
Trio Sonata in D major - III. Vivace
04:38
20.
Sonatina in D minor - I. Capricetto. Presto
02:49
21.
Sonatina in D minor - II. Arietta
01:58
22.
Sonatina in D minor - III. Gavotta
01:07
23.
Sonatina in D minor - IV. Menuet
01:52
24.
Sonatina in D minor - V. Giga
02:00

Total time: 01:09:22

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LWC1165

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Baroque Cello

Baroque Cello by Nicolas Augustin Chappuy, Paris, 1770

Baroque Guitar

Baroque Guitar, French Style, by OIiver Wadsworth, Worchestershire, 1995

Baroque Violin

Baroque Violin by Michael Sturzenhofecker, Cully, Switzerland, 2004. Copy of Baroque Violin Bergonzi Model 1727

Mastering Engineer

Thomas Wolden

Original Recording Format

Producer

Vegard Landaas

Recording Engineer

Thomas Wolden

Recording location

Jar Church, Baerum, February 15-17, 2017

Recording Software

Pyramix

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DXD

Theorbo & Archlute

Theobro & Archlute by Lars Torresen, Bergen, 2005

Release DateMarch 28, 2019

Press reviews

Positive Feedback

I have to admit to a weakness for recorders. I love the “woody” timbre (is that even a proper description) and the variety of all the different tonal ranges in which recorders are made. And, when playing music of the Baroque, there is nothing better than a good recorder, to my tastes. Leave the metal flutes in their cases, please.

Caroline Eidsten Dahl is a true master of the tenor recorder. In this album we are introduced to baroque composers active in Norway… All are new to me. All proved quite enjoyable. Dahl is joined in collaboration with Ensemble Freithoff for this album. We have pieces featuring recorder, but performed with a ensemble comprised of baroque violin, baroque cello, lute and harpsichord.

This album makes a very attractive addition to my music library and I highly recommended it to any lovers of the Baroque.

Musicweb International

This album is undoubtedly quite interesting, as it sheds light on a part of the musical map of Europe which is little known. These four musicians deliver very fine and stylish performances, with an excellent ensemble. In short, this is a very enjoyable album, which shows once again there is still much to discover outside the mainstream repertoire.

ResMusica

The eighteenth-century composers appearing on this recording present at least one common point: all descended from the Germanic geographical sphere. A second element connects them. Their aesthetic close enough to meet the musical spirit of their time.

To revive these sonatas Caroline Eidsten Dahl (recorder) sometimes joins the violin, the cello, and the Baroque guitar without forgetting the reinforcement of the theorbo and the archiluth. Obviously, the instrumentalists belong to the family of historically informed musicians. They plunge us into a delicate and singing Baroque musical universe, well before the national romanticism, where the respect of forms, the technical mastery of harmony and the melodic control are part of clearly delineated shackles. The four composers selected represent and illustrate the canons of this period without being strictly superposable with their common base resting on Galante music, with sometimes advances towards the Viennese Classicism, always respectful of an accepted academicism.

If Georg von Bertouch represents this definition well, Hinrich Philip Johnsen discreetly recalls Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his Empfindsamkeit, which is new, reveals some personal feelings and unknown dramatic traits. until then. Johan Daniel Berlin represents the Baroque high and Johan Henrik Freithoff expresses himself through more personal writing, richer in melodic and rhythmic nuances enriched with luminous flashes (Allegro of the Trio Sonata in g major) and pages (Adagio of the Sonata in g major).

All except Freithoff (Dano-Norwegian) belonged to the Germanic sphere and went to Scandinavia still young where, while claiming their artistic ambitions, they were obliged to earn their living by exercising other trades.

Caroline Eisdten Dahl, a native of Drammen (Norway), after studying at the Bergen Conservatory in Stockholm, belongs with the artists of the Freithoff ensemble to the best of the European Baroque. They all inspire their love of this music played with virtuosity, but also embellished by gentle melodies and enhanced by a convincing rhythmic verve.

A kind and informative return to a musical past that touched all the nations of the old world in the eighteenth century.

Pizzicato

The Norwegians Johan Henrik Freithoff, Georg von Bertouch, Johan Daniel Berlin, and the Swede Henrik Phillip Johnsen are Composers with whom probably even some Insiders of the Baroque Scene have to fit.

The Music world is still mostly Euro-centrically oriented. What’s going on at the Ends of the Continent, it’s hard to be heard. Wrongly!

This teaches us once again this Recording with Baroque music from the Scandinavian Area. Four composers are hard to locate in purely geo-historical terms, as today we think within limits that did not yet exist in the 18th Century.

This also applies to music, which cannot be unceremoniously labeled as a Scandinavian Baroque. Freithoff, Bertouch, Johnsen, and Berlin have gone through different schools, Inspired in a variety of musical ways.

‘Sonata Norwegica’ thus primarily expands our musical horizon and does so in an excellent, very vital and dynamic way.

The ‘Ensemble Freithoff’ and the Flutist Caroline Eidsten Dahl play the seven Sonatas unpretentiously, without artificial musical face lifting. The Opposite is true. The Performers strike a pleasantly rough tone in places, which is to the advantage of the Music, as it is only in this way that it gets the necessary relief and real edges. This also benefits the slow, lyrical Sentences, which stand out as important dynamic counterpoints.

With works by not well known Norwegian composers Johan Henrik Freithoff, Georg von Bertouch, Johan Daniel Berlin, and the Swede, Henrik Phillip Johnsen, Sonata Norwegica agreeably widens the musical horizon. The performances by Ensemble Freithoff and flutist Caroline Eidsten Dahl are unpretentious, dynamic and provide a wonderful sound.

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