Kvindelige Studenters - Kom Regn (Come Rain) [CD]

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Kvindelige Studenters Sangforening (The Womens' Choral Society of the University of Oslo), although not being a name which automatically rolls off the tongue, is the world\u2019s oldest academic female choir.\r
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For this recording, it has sought out choral music for women by five male Norwegian composers \u2014 compositions that challenge and expand conceptions of Norway\u2019s cultural heritage.\r
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'Kom Regn', the title of this recording, translates as 'Come Rain' and is comprised of music by Valen, Nordheim, Hovlad, Nystedt and Kruse.\r
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There is scarcely a trace of a mountain or fjord or traditional folk music on this recording, or of Grieg, Kjerulf and Nordraak. The gentlemen composers chose other routes to the concert hall, cathedral and the cultural canon. \r
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One of them had as strong a faith in his uncompromising counterpoint as in the Almighty Creator, while sitting alone between the mountains and fjords of Western Norway. Another was a central figure of European contemporary music and musical life in the capital city, but his work was dismissed as \u201cPling-Plong\u201d by Norwegian cultural conservatism\u2019s self-appointed generals.\r
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Fartein Valen, Arne Nordheim, Egil Hovland, Knut Nystedt and Bj\xf8rn Kruse, each in his own way and with either the Bible or world poetry in his inside pocket, created sounds that convey a different history of Norwegian music. Placed in women\u2019s voices, they provide the possibility of entering worlds of sound, words and lines that for many remain undiscovered, unanticipated and unprecedented.\r
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Kvindelige Studenters Sangforening/KSS) as well as being the oldest academic female choir in the world, is currently ranked as the world's best female choir (Interkultur 2017).\r
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Although an old choir, it is one that has always surrounded itself with new music. At the time of its founding in 1895, choral life in Norway was distinguished chiefly by male choirs, and the choir\u2019s earliest repertoire was often music for male choir. Works for female choir, in particular works of Norwegian origin, were in short supply.\r
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Conductor Marit T\xf8ndel Bodsberg Weyde (b. 1981) was born in Byneset, S\xf8r-Tr\xf8ndelag. She became permanent conductor of Kvindelige Studenters Sangforening/KSS in 2009, after having substituted as conductor from the autumn of 2008. \r
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In the autumn of 2012 she was awarded the Conductor\u2019s Prize for KSS\u2019s performance at Norway\u2019s national choral competition, and in 2015 she led KSS to victory in the European Choir Games and Grand Prix of Nations.

FARTEIN VALEN - Motet For Female Choir, Op. 25 (1936) Kom Regn Fra Det H\xf8ie

Two Motets For Female Choir, Op. 14 - No. 1, Quomodo Sedet Sola Civitas

No. 2, Regina Coeli Laetare

ARNE NORDHEIM - Music To Two Fragments By Shelley - Silver Key

No, Music

EGIL HOVLAND - Gloria Patri, Op. 137, No. 2

Se, Dager Kommer (1975)

KNUT NYSTEDT - Shells (1973)

Sansene (2002

I Am My Brother\u2019s Keeper (1982)

Mary\u2019019s Song

BJ\xd8RN KRUSE - Music To Hear, Why Hear\u2019st Thou Music Sadly? (2000)

Renn Over Meg Som Regn (1993)