Songs Of Love is Mezzo-Soprano Marianna Beate Kielland’s 13th album at NativeDSD Music. On it she is joined by Baritone Halvor Festervoll Melien and Pianist Nils Anders Mortensen on this album from Lawo Classics.

The album is Exclusively Available at NativeDSD in Stereo DSD 512, DSD 256, DSD 128 and DSD 64 plus the recorded format of Stereo DXD.

Composer Kjell Habbestad says “Looking through my songs I discovered that most of them deal with love, often lost or unrequited love; yes, even with the same aspects that one finds in Edvard Munch’s central themes: love, angst and death.

With one exception, the songs in the album are arranged more or less chronologically according to the date of the source, from the Bible to poems by contemporary Norwegian poet Paal-Helge Haugen. Surprisingly, this sequence results in a dramaturgical movement from the love described in the Song of Songs, through the angst-filled life, to death.

In order that the album not end on a negative note, however, I have placed the poem by Olav H. Hauge  after the Haugen oems. And there is one more coincidence: Almost without exception the chronological sequence coincides with the order in which the songs were composed”from “3 Canticles” in 1984 to “It is that Dream” in 2015.– 

Marianna Beate Kielland, Mezzo-Soprano
Halvor Festervoll Melien, Baritone
Nils Anders Mortensen, Piano