Harp music of sublime beauty
Listen to a clip from Ellen Sejersted Bødtker's disc here
Åm
SONaR: Concerto for harp and strings (Be the Purpose); I Awoke (for soprano and harp); Concerto for harp and angels (Dette Blanke no)
Ellen Sejersted Bødtker (harp); with Berit Norbakken Solset (soprano); Oslo Kammersolister; Grex Vocalis/Carl Høgset
2L 51 SABD (hybrid CD/SACD plus Blu-ray) 58:11 mins (2 discs)
‘Harpist Ellen Sejersted Bødtker in three sublimely beautiful works by Magnar Åm.’ Christopher Dingle
For more, see our full Blu-ray audio review in our July ‘09 issue
Audio clip: Magnar Åm: I Awoke (for soprano and harp)
Related links:
Shostakovich's daring first opera
Original Mozart from René Jacobs
Matthias Goerne's compelling Schubert cycle
A rare opportunity to hear Argerich play solo