Bønn for drømmen – Sigmund Groven

Newly composed music by Sigmund Groven with lyrics by Hans Børli

The album ”Bønn for Drømmen" is released December 17th, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the widely loved Norwegian poet Hans Børli.
A couple of years ago, mezzosoprano Marianne Bye Granheim and soprano Maren Myrvold contacted composer and harmonica player Sigmund Groven with a selection of poems by Hans Børli. The result is the album ”Bønn for drømmen”. It contains 12 songs with text by Hans Børli and music by Sigmund Groven. Alongside the two singers, Groven contributes on the harmonica, Aage Kvalbein on cello and Ivar Anton Waagaard on piano.
On the album you will find early poems with rhyme and rhythm that gives notes to the folk song format, as well as later poems in free form that invites a more modern musical style.