Trio Mediæval / Arve Henriksen

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TRIO MEDIÆVAL
with ARVE HENRIKSEN

DATES ON REQUEST 2019

The mesmerizing voices of Oslo's Trio Mediaeval have captivated the concert world with their breathtaking performances and recordings of a diverse polyphonic repertoire featuring sacred monophonic and polyphonic medieval music from England, Italy and France, contemporary works written for the ensemble, as well as traditional Norwegian, Swedish and Icelandic ballads and songs, mostly arranged by the group members. During their career, the trio has developed exciting collaborations with both individual musicians as well as larger ensembles/orchestras.

The vocal ensemble Trio Mediaeval was founded by Linn Andrea Fuglseth in Oslo in 1997. For sixteen years, the three original members Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth and Torunn Østrem Ossum constituted the trio. In December 2013, Torunn left the group. Linn Andrea and Anna Maria are now joined by Berit Opheim, who has been singing with the ensemble regularly since 2010.

AQUILONIS
It’s tempting to see the idea of Aquilonis as a metaphor – the fresh north wind driving the creative vocal endeavours of three Scandinavian women southwards to Europe and the Americas – and the music in tonight’s concert can indeed be seen as a journey from the cool north to the warm south. But it also represents a snapshot of the trio’s own musical journey through time, an adventure which began with singing the medieval polyphony with which they developed their unique sound world; it was from here that they would explore that mysterious nexus where the medieval meets the present. The genesis of the trio dates from Linn Andrea Fuglseth’s revelatory encounter while a student at the Guildhall School Music with Alleluia a Newe Work, one of three English medieval carols performed tonight - that single piece, with its exotic mixture of modal surprises and spectacular virtuosity, was where it all began.

The music of this album is a clear example of the deep-rooted migrational nature of our local existence. It is music of a remote past, marked by radically different life conditions. It is music from distant areas connected by wandering people in search of better life conditions. It is music handed down by word of mouth for a long time and finally documented in written form during the last century. It is music to be recovered, reconstructed and re-contextualized in an ongoing process of searching, appropriating and re-inventing, of sense making at the intersection of a resonating past and today's breathing. Full review

Photos: Ingvil Skeive Ljones

Forward

According to tradition Norwegian Ingólfr Arnarson was the first Nordic settler in Iceland, founding Reykjavík in 874. In the 20th century a statue of Arnarson was raised in Reykjavík and a copy put up in Rivedal, his home village on the Norwegian west coast. The two statues, facing towards each other across the sea, provided a conceptual starting point for Rímur, Trio Mediaeval’s seventh ECM recording. What music did Arnarson hear in Rivedal? What songs did the Vikings bring with them to Iceland, and what music was new to their ears? These are among the questions pondered here.

Anna Maria Friman Henriksen
Linn Andrea Fuglseth
Jorunn Lovise Husan
with
Arve Henriksen
Trygve Seim
Håvard Lund

Harstad visit.

Over several summers Trio Mediaeval and trumpeter Arve Henriksenspent many days together by the beautiful Dalsfjorden on the Norwegianwest coast, and it was there that most of the music for this recording was
born. Fascinated and inspired by Icelandic sagas, beautiful chants, folksongs, religious hymns and fiddle tunes, the quartet have arranged a unique set of songs where improvisation, mediaeval and traditional musicfrom Iceland, Norway and Sweden meet the present. Henriksen has often performed with Trio Mediaeval in live settings – and the singers and trumpeter appear on Sinikka Langeland’s recent record The Magical
Forest – but Rímur is their first extensive collaboration on disc. It was recorded in February 2016 at Munich’s Himmelfahrtskirche, and
produced by Manfred Eicher.

Trio Mediaeval feat. Arve Henriksen - CHAPTER II (gekürzt) - Trans4JAZZ-Festival 2014

Joined by trumpeter Arve Henriksen, Trio Mediaeval presents a unique programme in which mediaeval and traditional music from Iceland and Norway and improvisation are integrated. Henriksen has often performed with the Trio Mediaeval in live settings – and the singers and trumpeter appear on Sinikka Langeland’s recently issued The Magical Forest – but Rímur is their first extensive collaboration on disc.

Trio Mediaeval feat. Arve Henriksen - Trans4JAZZ-Festival 2014

Trio Mediæval & Arve Henriksen live in Bristol review

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Kjell Kalleklev Management AS
Georgernes Verft 12, N-5011 Bergen Norway
Org.nr. 995637774, tlf:+4755557635
Fax:+4755557631 / mob: +4791103280