Gjeilo - Dreamweaver
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Label: Decca
Cat No: 4854635
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 29th September 2023
Contents
Works
Agnus DeiAutumn
Dreamweaver
Ingen Vinner Frem Til Den Evige Ro
Stone Rose
The North
The Road
Winter Light
Artists
Grace Davidson (soprano)Ola Gjeilo (piano)
The Choir of Royal Holloway
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Rupert GoughWorks
Agnus DeiAutumn
Dreamweaver
Ingen Vinner Frem Til Den Evige Ro
Stone Rose
The North
The Road
Winter Light
Artists
Grace Davidson (soprano)Ola Gjeilo (piano)
The Choir of Royal Holloway
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Rupert GoughAbout
In this new album built around two new multi-movement works titled The Road and Dreamweaver, Gjeilo pays homage to his home country of Norway.
The centrepiece of the album, Dreamweaver is inspired by one of the best known Norwegian medieval folk poems, Draumkvedet. The album features soprano soloist Grace Davidson, texts by Charles Anthony Silvestri, and showcases Gjeilo's versatility as it also includes instrumental and solo piano tracks: ‘I love that contrast, between the intimacy of solo piano and the bigger sound world with choir’ (Ola Gjeilo).
Ola grew up in a musically eclectic home listening to classical, film music, jazz, pop and folk, a broad background that he later incorporated into his classical composition studies at The Juilliard School and the Royal College of Music in London. The ‘Dreamweaver’ album includes an arrangement of one of the composer’s favourite folk songs, which later became part of the Norwegian hymnal, in Ingen Vinner Frem Til Den Evige Ro.
The Road embarks the listener on a musical journey through one of Norway’s most stunning stretches of road. Each track is named after significant places that are close to the composer’s heart. It begins near Hallingskarvet, below the regal mountain and close to Ola’s family hometown of Geilo. From there it continues through the breathtaking landscapes of the Hardangervidda mountain plateau, before turning steeply downward towards Hardangerfjorden, ultimately completing the journey by ascending again from the village of Kinsarvik, along the mighty waterfalls of Husedalen.
The album features Ola Gjeilo on the piano, the Choir of Royal Holloway (University of London) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The conductor is Rupert Gough, Director of Choral Music and College Organist at Royal Holloway since 2005.
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