Beautiful playing, thank you!
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Beautiful playing, thank you!
https://youtu.be/pxrRvD3uAGg
for the mandolin.
I play this on a Brescian "Cremonese" mandolin, made by Albert & Müller in 2008, that I have tuned down to approximatly E for a bit richer sound. Of course I could have used...
Thank you, Victor.
I heard some of Nils Vigeland sketches, live here in Trollsalen in Bergen, next to Edvard Griegs home. Fascinating impressions.
Cheers!
This instrument doesn´t quite look like a traditional Hardingfele, but the sound is quite good! I live in the western part of Norway, with my roots in Telemark, and I know several players of the...
I've just made some recordings in the Emanuel Vigeland mausoleum in Oslo, Norway. It's one of the most special concert scenes in Scandinavia, with 15-20 seconds of reverb. I'm sharing this to show...
The 8th of September, on monday, I will play my Peer Gynt-suite in the Ibsen museum in Oslo, Ibsen's last home. The suite has 9 parts, and is based on scenes from the great romantic play by Ibsen;...
Hi Bartk1448
I will point out my own opinions here. The duration of the note can be read from the score over it. In "pure" tab it was usual from the late 15th century to the end of the baroque to...
Bach was actually the reason that I got myself a mandolin. I learned to play the first sonata and the second partita on the violin, and wanted to study the complexity of the polyphony on a plucked...
Oh, I would like to try one of those!
Very well played!
Thanks for sharing.
In November this year I will play in this very special place in Oslo:
"Emanuel Vigeland's Museum at Slemdal is one of Oslo's best kept secrets. The museum's main attraction is a dark,...
Thank you both! The Vikings were travellers, so the instrument could - I guess - be of any kind. I've got a pupil that read Arabian, maybe he can solve this - and maybe not. As you say, Jim, there...
Here is one of my pieces, "Maria in tears", composed in 2007. I usually start my church concerts with this one. Here is a simple recording from Korskirken ("The Curch of the cross") in Bergen, March...
...The english translation: "Then they disinterred the chieftain and gave him new clothes. In his grave, he received intoxicating drinks, fruits and a stringed instrument. The chieftain was put into...
Today I read the famous description of a Viking funeral, by the Arabian writer Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, from the 10th century. The Norwegian translation says that the King was buried with a “mandolin” that...
So much poetry is written about the violin, the guitar, even the mandolin - but nothing that I've found about our new friend, the colascione. So I tried, and the result was quite good, according to...
I just love the sound of that instrument. And the playing is marvelous. So inspiering.
The place I live is known for all kinds of birds - even eagles. But to see seagulls I have to go down to Bergen - where there are plenty. (They don't come alone, do they!) I'm looking forwards to...
I see that one of my words in the last post has been "sensored". The word was a description of "blend of races", and I din't know that it was a "bad" word to use. (It would have passed in my country,...
Thank you for your kind reply! Yes, this is one of my own pieces, and my compositions are of course as made for this type of mandolin. I think you will be very happy with your new mandolin - remember...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDbAp9f4ChQ
Despite poor quality of sound and image I hope some will enjoy this.
Rolf Lislevand - Vivaldi. Because of the combination of "historical" performance, great playing and wonderful feeling of the age and it's music (most important). His recordings for lute are even...
My Sibelius-program is down now due to a virus (arrrgh!) but I will see if I can scan in the handwritten score during a day or two. Me and my computer are not best friends right now...
Here is a Good Friday hymn I wrote some years ago.
http://www.box.net/shared/q7iz8eve5a
Lichenberg has always been my favourite player of the classical mandolin, and the duo with Marshall is as good as they come. You are sure a very lucky composer! On the other hand they are also very...