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Ole Bull through Arve Tellefsen<\/p>\n
In 2010 it is 200 years since the birth of Ole Bull, and his position is stronger than ever before in modern times. It is no exaggeration to say that this is largely due to the inspired work of one man: Arve Tellefsen. This celebration re-issue is a manifest over two outstanding Norwegian artists.<\/p>\n
Throughout his long carer, Arve Tellefsen has been an ardent advocate of bringing the Ole Bull legacy out to the world wide public. On this recording we hear Tellefsen in the extremely virtuosic, often melancholy melodic shapes that were the trademarks of Bull. With his peerless tone and attention to every nuance in the music, Tellefsen makes the magic happen in his performance.<\/p>\n
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In 2010 it is 200 years since the birth of Ole Bull, and his position is stronger than ever before in modern times. It is no exaggeration to say that this is largely due to the inspired work of one man: Arve Tellefsen. This celebration re-issue is a manifest over two outstanding Norwegian artists.<\/p>\n
It is well known that Grieg had Bull as his inspiration when searching for his own \u2018national tone\u2019 of expression. Still there seems to be only one documented case of the two performing officially together. August 11th 1873 there was a fund raising concert supporting a Leiv Erikson statue that Bull wanted put up in Boston. Two of Grieg\u2019s pieces \u2013 Gavotte and Menuet \u2013 were programmed. As a special feature both these works are a part of this celebratory release. They were later to be found in Griegs\u2019s works as the Ved Mannj\u00e6vningen and the 2nd mvt. of the F major violin sonata.<\/p>\n
\u201cOle Bull was the first international celebrity to come out of Norway. He was the \u2018star\u2019 of the 1800s, admired, despised, ambitious and intense\u201d, says Arve Tellefsen \u201cthe stories are many and separating fiction from fact is not always easy. Just as the pop stars of today, Ole Bull had a good sense for what kind of stories that would stick in the minds of the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
That Tellefsen has succeeded in his work to bring out the name and music of Ole Bull can be experienced in many ways this year. The Norwegian Bank now presents a new 10kr coin with Bull\u2019s portrait as the motif. For the first time the 2010 Menhuin Competition was held somewhere else than London. Not only was it moved to Oslo, but the mandatory Paganini was replaced with Ole. This year the International Festival in Bergen includes a big Ole Bull night June 2nd, with Tellefsen featuring as the performing host of the show.<\/p>\n
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