Date & time
30.05.2025
kl. 19.30
Venue
Korskirken
Bergen
Performers
The Norwegian Soloists' Choir
About
Grete Pedersen is a Bergen International Festival musician in 2025 and will lead two projects with The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir. Under the title “A musical conversation on consolation” The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir revisits “Laughing my head off / Singing your heart in”‘!
About the concert from The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir’s website:
In this concert, Bach’s motets serve as the foundation for a musical conversation on consolation. The motets brim with life and hope for an existence in the next world and will be performed by the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir. Grete Pedersen is known for her original concert programmes and will conduct the performance.
The Soloists’ Choir has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Diapason d’or de l’année for their interpretations of Bach’s motets. ‘It is done with such extraordinary alertness. The singing makes your skin tingle,’ wrote Norwegian newspaper Vårt Landabout the album Bach – The Motets, while BBC Magazine hailed it as ‘A real tour de force!’
In contrast to Bach’s baroque sound world, the concert also includes Mahler’s poetic Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen, Helmut Lachenmann’s Consolation, where a medieval prayer is fragmented into syllables and sounds, and a work by Bente L. Thorsen marked by sorrow, euphoria, and fits of laughter.
