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Geir Botnen and Geirr Tveitt<\/p>\n
Geir Botnen performs three magnificent works by Geirr Tveitt on this album. Raised in Norheimsund \u2013 Geirr Tveitt\u00b4s hometown \u2013 with folk music in his blood, Botnen early acquired an interest in Tveitt\u00b4s music. At a young age, the pianist played all of Tveitt\u00b4s \u201cFifty Folk Tunes from Hardanger\u201d on a double album recording, and he has diligently performed Tveitt\u00b4s music in Scandinavia as well as a number of tours in the US and the Far East. For Simax he has recorded selctions of Grieg\u00b4s \u201cFolkeviser\u201d (folk songs) and \u201cSl\u00e5tter\u201d together with Reigun Horvei and Knut Hamre, and a CD with modern flute music in collaboration with Ingela \u00d8ien. <\/p>\n
Tveitt\u00b4s \u201dFyristudiar\u201d, two-, three- and four-part inventions based on the strict style of the St. Thomas cantor, but freely and uniquely interwoven with Norwegian tonality, are the Nordic counterpart to Bach. They have a Norwegian \u201caccent\u201d based on the old modes Tveitt found in the Norwegian country air or sl\u00e5tt. His sonatas have a special place in his total production. However, few of the sonatas were ever performed in public, and only one has been preserved, \u201cSonata etere No. 29, Op. 129\u201d, which Botnen has recorded for this album. Grand in its dimension, profoundly original, exhaustive and intense, the sonata is of the best Tveitt brand. Closing the album is the piece \u201cDanse du Dieu Soleil, op. 91 no. 15\u201d, a piece from the ballet \u201cBaldur\u00b4s dreams\u201d. The ballet is about the sun god in the Norse universe, with a plot inspired by Edda and Snorre\u00b4s \u201cGylfaginning\u201d. \u201cDanse du Dieu Soleil is a finale and the only preserved, fully developed movement in the prolific works from Tveitt\u00b4s youth.<\/p>\n
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