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Schubert\u2019s Schwanengesang as you\u2019ve never heard it before!<\/p>\n
A new approach to Schubert\u2019s Schwanengesang by frank\u00e5gunnar<\/p>\n
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This autumn Frank Havr\u00f8y (voice) and Gunnar Flagstad (piano) release their highly personal version of Schubert\u2019s song cycle Schwanengesang on the Norwegian label Simax. This collection (which was not intended as a cycle at all by the composer, but became one after his death) is one of Schubert\u2019s most iconic works. Many of the 14 songs in the collection, including \u201cSt\u00e4ndchen\u201d, Der Doppelg\u00e4nger\u201d and \u201cDas Fischerm\u00e4dchen\u201d, are among Schubert\u2019s most well-known. Frank Havr\u00f8y and Gunnar Flagstad, a duo who go by the name of frank\u00e5gunnar<\/em>, challenge the tradition of classical Lieder<\/em> performance with their fresh approach, creating an entirely new interpretation of the material. Theirs is a multi-genre approach, allowing every musical idea to be exploited and examined. The result is a musical landscape in which everything is allowed, but which never loses sight of the original songs. So, although the songs have been tweaked and tampered with, there is no doubt that we are still dealing with the beautiful music of Franz Schubert.<\/p>\n Frank Havr\u00f8y and Gunnar Flagstad both work as associate professors at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. They are also busy freelance artists, each involved in a large number of musical ventures: Frank as a singer, actor, writer, composer and a long-time member of the vocal ensemble Nordic Voices; Gunnar as a passionate and versatile pianist and chamber musician, regularly performing with leading Norwegian musicians at major festivals and concert venues in Norway and abroad. This is their first recording together.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tchaikovsky: Serenade, Violin Concerto. Kraggerud: Ragnarok \/The sun\u2019s daughter – Arctic Philharmonic \/ Christian Kluxen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[180],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39328","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-simax-classics","7":"product_shipping_class-cddvd-shipping","8":"uni_artist_tag-frank-havroy","9":"uni_artist_tag-gunnar-flagstad","10":"uni_main_artist_tag-frankagunnar","11":"uni_artist_genre-classical","12":"uni_artist_genre-cross-over","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"taxable","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/39328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=39328"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=39328"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grappa.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=39328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}