Grieg in English!
The first two recordings below are from my 2020 compact disc Edvard Grieg: Songs From the Heart, with pianist Steve Swanson, on the Norway House label. Steve and I collaborated with Norwegian language scholar Bill Halvorson to create the first known full-length English-language recording of Grieg’s art songs.
Edvard Grieg “Cow Call (Ku-Lokk)” EGS 152
Edvard Grieg “A Bird Song (En Fuglesang)” Op. 25, No. 6
More info and CD purchase link can be found at Norway House.
Also please enjoy the concert video we made to celebrate the CD’s release!
A work I commissioned:
This is my friend Josh Shank’s setting of a poem by Rolf Jacobsen.
I commissioned it for my 40th birthday voice recital in October 2016.
“De store symfoniers tid” (The Age of Great Symphonies)
A solo and a duet, both in choir/orchestra settings:
Gabriel Fauré “Pie Jesu” from Requiem
Prior Lake High School Master Works Concert
Randi Erlandson, conductor
Monday October 15, 2018
My solo begins at 17:21 🙂
Handel: Dixit Dominus, mvt 8 “De torrente in via bibet“
with Hannah Armstrong, soprano
and The Singers—Minnesota Choral Artists
Matthew Culloton, conductor
October 2016
My solo begins at 23:45 🙂
My YouTube Channel. Some highlights:
Aaron Copland “At the River“
Antonin Dvorak “Sing Ye a Joyful Song”
with Aaron David Miller, piano
House of Hope Presbyterian, St Paul, Minnesota
May 23, 2020
Enjoy!
Melissa Holm-Johansen 