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Into Paradise (Sissel Album)
''Into Paradise'' is a 2006 classical/crossover album by Norwegian soprano Sissel Kyrkjebø released in the US, the UK and Japan. Track listing UK version # In Paradisum # Sancta Maria # Bachianas Brasileiras # Dido's Lament # Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme # Dusk (Velkomne med æra) # Ingen vinner frem # What Child Is This? # Marble Halls # The Sleeping Princess # Vitae Lux # Salley Gardens # Ave Verum Corpus # Like an Angel Passing Through My Room US version # Dusk # Bachianas Brasileiras # Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme # Dido's Lament # In Paradisum # Sancta Maria # Vitae Lux # Ingen vinner frem # Bäreden väg för herran # Marble Halls # Adagio # Like an Angel Passing Through My Room Japan version # In Paradisum # Sancta Maria # Bachianas Brasileiras # Dido's Lament # Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme # Dusk (Velkomne med æra) # Ingen vinner frem # What Child Is This? # Marble Halls # The Sleeping Princess # Vitae Lux # Salley Gardens # Ave Verum Corpus # L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sissel Kyrkjebø
Sissel Kyrkjebø (; born 24 June 1969), also simply known as Sissel, is a Norwegian soprano. Sissel is considered one of the world's top crossover sopranos. Her musical style ranges from pop recordings and folk songs, to classical vocals and operatic arias. She sings mainly in English and Norwegian and has also sung songs in Spanish Swedish, Danish, Irish, Italian, French, Russian, Icelandic, Faroese, German, Neapolitan, Māori, Japanese and Latin. She rose to prominence in Norway in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and her cover version of Ole Paus' song "Innerst i sjelen" gained wide popularity in the 1990s. She is well known for singing the Olympic Hymn (Hymne Olympique) at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway; for duets with Plácido Domingo and Charles Aznavour at the "Christmas in Vienna" concert of 1994, José Carreras, Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel, Josh Groban, Neil Sedaka, Mario Frangoulis, Russell Watson, Brian May, Tommy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adagio In G Minor
Adagio in G minor for strings and organ, also known as Adagio in Sol minore per archi e organo su due spunti tematici e su un basso numerato di Tomaso Albinoni (Mi 26), is a neo-Baroque composition commonly attributed to the 18th-century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni, but actually composed by 20th-century musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto, purportedly based on the discovery of a manuscript fragment by Albinoni. There is continuing scholarly debate about whether the alleged fragment was real, or a musical hoax perpetrated by Giazotto, but there is no doubt about Giazotto's authorship of the remainder of the work. Provenance The composition is often referred to as "Albinoni's Adagio" or "Adagio in G minor by Albinoni, arranged by Giazotto". The ascription to Albinoni rests upon Giazotto's purported discovery of a manuscript fragment (consisting of a few opening measures of the melody line and basso continuo portion) from a slow second movement of an otherwise u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room
"Like an Angel Passing Through My Room" is the closing track on ABBA's 1981 album '' The Visitors''. It was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. History Work began on this track on 26 May 1981 in Polar Music Studios. The first demo recording of the melody was made with Björn Ulvaeus singing a lyric with the title "Twinkle, Twinkle". Then the track was given the title "Another Morning Without You". In later recording sessions it was re-titled "An Angel Walked Through My Room", "An Angel's Passing Through My Room". At one point the song was turned into a disco track but this idea was eventually abandoned as the group felt it sounded too similar to "Lay All Your Love on Me". Initially the track featured vocal parts from both Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad but the final version of the song featured Anni-Frid as soloist. It is notable as being the only ABBA song to feature just one vocalist. Unlike many other ABBA songs, the final mix of the track was sparsely pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart)
''Ave verum corpus'' (Hail, true body), ( K. 618), is a motet in D major composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791. It is a setting of the Latin hymn Ave verum corpus. Mozart wrote it for Anton Stoll, a friend who was the church musician of St. Stephan in Baden bei Wien. The motet was composed for the feast of Corpus Christi; the autograph is dated 17 June 1791. It is scored for SATB choir, string instruments and organ. History Mozart composed the motet in 1791 in the middle of writing his opera ''Die Zauberflöte''. He wrote it while visiting his wife Constanze, who was pregnant with their sixth child and staying in the spa Baden bei Wien. Mozart set the 14th century Eucharistic hymn in Latin "Ave verum corpus". He wrote the motet for Anton Stoll, a friend of his ."Ave Verum Corpus, K 618" '' |
Down By The Salley Gardens
"Down by the Salley Gardens" (''Irish: Gort na Saileán'') is a poem by William Butler Yeats published in ''The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems'' in 1889. History Yeats indicated in a note that it was "an attempt to reconstruct an old song from three lines imperfectly remembered by an old peasant woman in the village of Ballisodare, Sligo, who often sings them to herself." The "old song" may have been the ballad ''The Rambling Boys of Pleasure'' which contains the following verse: :"Down by yon flowery garden my love and I we first did meet. :I took her in my arms and to her I gave kisses sweet :She bade me take life easy just as the leaves fall from the tree. :But I being young and foolish, with my darling did not agree." The similarity to the first verse of the Yeats version is unmistakable and would suggest that this was indeed the song Yeats remembered the old woman singing. The rest of the song, however, is quite different. Yeats's original title, "An Old Song Re-Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marble Halls
"I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls", or "The Gipsy Girl's Dream", is a popular aria from ''The Bohemian Girl'', an 1843 opera by Michael William Balfe, with lyrics by Alfred Bunn. It is sung in the opera by the character Arline, who is in love with Thaddeus, a Polish nobleman and political exile. In popular culture In addition to its regular performance in the opera, and in cast recordings of the opera, the aria, which was very popular in the 19th and 20th centuries, has been recorded many times by a variety of musicians as a stand-alone song. It has also been parodied. * Lewis Carroll's parody of the lyrics was published in ''Lays of Mystery, Imagination and Humour'' in 1855: * The song was recorded several times during the mid-twentieth century by Dame Joan Sutherland. * The opera is mentioned, and the aria referred to several times, in the 1944 novel '' Dragonwyck'', by Anya Seton, which is set in 1844. The song makes a brief appearance in the 1946 film adaptation of the boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Child Is This?
"What Child Is This?" is a Christmas carol with lyrics written by William Chatterton Dix in 1865 and set to the tune of "Greensleeves", a traditional English folk song, in 1871. Although written in Great Britain, the carol today is more popular in the United States than its country of origin. Lyrics Composition The first verse poses a rhetorical question in the first half, with the response coming in the second half. The second verse contains another question that is answered, while the final verse is a universal appeal to everyone urging them "to accept Christ". The carol's melody has been described as "soulful", "haunting and beautiful" in nature. Context The context of the carol centres around the Adoration of the Shepherds who visit during the Nativity of Jesus. The questions posed in the lyrics reflect what the shepherds were possibly pondering to themselves when they encountered Jesus, with the rest of the carol providing a response to their questions. Background ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme
"" (literally: Awake, the voice is calling us) is a Lutheran hymn written in German language, German by Philipp Nicolai, first published in 1599 together with "". It appears in German hymnals and in several English hymnals in translations such as "Wake, Awake, for Night Is Flying" (Catherine Winkworth, 1858), "Wake, O wake! with tidings thrilling" (Francis Crawford Burkitt, 1906), and "Up! Awake! From Highest Steeple" (George Ratcliffe Woodward, 1908). Johann Sebastian Bach based a Chorale cantata (Bach), chorale cantata on the hymn, , one of its many musical settings. Nicolai Philipp Nicolai wrote the hymn in 1598, a time when the Plague (disease), plague had hit Unna where he lived for six months as a preacher after studies in theology at the University of Wittenberg. The text is based on the Parable of the Ten Virgins (). Nicolai refers to other biblical ideas, such as from Book of Revelation, Revelations the mentioning of marriage () and the twelve gates, every one of pear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordisk Vinternatt
''Nordisk Vinternatt'' is a 2005 folk/traditional album by Norwegian singer Sissel Kyrkjebø released in Scandinavia. This album includes folk- and traditional songs in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic. Track listing # :no:Astrid, mi Astrid, Denti, du Astri (Norwegian) # :sv:Vårvindar friska, Vårvinder friska (Swedish) # :sv:Visa från Utanmyra, O tysta ensamhet (Swedish) # :da:Der er ingenting i verden så stille som sne, Det er ingenting i verden så stille som sne (Danish) # Om kvelden (Norwegian) # :sv:Romance, Du är den ende (Swedish) # :no:Jeg lagde meg så silde, Jeg lagde meg så silde (Norwegian) # :sv:Bereden väg för Herran, Bereden väg för Herran (Swedish) # Musens sang (Danish) # :sv:Den första gång jag såg dig, Den första gång jag såg dig (Swedish) # Bruremarsj (Norwegian) # Koppången (song), Koppången (Swedish) # Sofðu ungá astín min (Icelandic) Critical reception Norwegian newspaper ''Vårt Land'' wrote: "Sissel sings better and better. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dido's Lament
Dido's Lament is the aria "When I am laid in earth" from the opera ''Dido and Aeneas'' by Henry Purcell (libretto by Nahum Tate). It is included in many classical music textbooks on account of its exemplary use of the passus duriusculus in the ground bass. The conductor Leopold Stokowski wrote a transcription of the piece for symphony orchestra. It is played annually in London by the massed bands of the Guards Division at the Cenotaph remembrance parade in Whitehall on Remembrance Sunday, the Sunday nearest to November 11 (Armistice Day). The ''Aeneid'' The text, and Purcell's opera, alludes to the ''Aeneid'', the Roman legend of the Trojan warrior Aeneas, travelling to Italy from the betrayed and fallen Troy in order to settle there and secure his son Ascanius's lineage. Their ship is blown off course from Sicily, and they land on the shore of North Africa, in Carthage, a town newly settled by refugees from Tyre. Aeneas falls in love with their queen, Dido, but dutifull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bachianas Brasileiras
The ''Bachianas Brasileiras'' () (an approximate English translation might be ''Bach-inspired Brazilian pieces'') are a series of nine Suite (music), suites by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945. They represent a fusion of Brazilian folk and popular music on the one hand and the style of Johann Sebastian Bach on the other, as an attempt to freely adapt a number of Baroque music, Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music. Most of the Movement (music), movements in each suite have two titles: one "Bachian" (Preludio, Fuga, etc.), the other Brazilian (Embolada, O canto da nossa terra, etc.). In the Bachianas, Villa-Lobos employs the counterpoint and harmonic complexity typical of Bach's music and combines it with the lyrical quality of operatic singing and Brazilian song. The listener experiences the charm of the Brazilian landscape; the energy of Brazilian dance; the color, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
