The Light - Songs og love and fear - reviews
The new CD "The Light - Songs of love and fear" with Randi Stene, Lars Anders Tomter and Ketil Björnstad receives good reviews from norwegian and international press.
The work of
the English metaphysical poet John Donne has provided a rich source of
inspiration for Ketil Bjørnstad. … With this new album he returns once more to
the poet’s works, albeit in the more formal setting of a trio than a septet,
setting a further 11 of Donne’s works to music that comprise the song cycle
‘The Light’. Conceived for the voice of Randi Stene … and Lars Anders Tomter’s
viola, Bjørnstad creates an album of wonderfully understated passion. Donne’s
poems are included in the liner notes, and given their depth and complexity, it
is wholly absorbing the way Bjørnstad has gone about his task. … Once again his
melodies allow the voice to invest each word with rich, personal meaning in an
album that, like so much of Bjørnstad’s work, and not be easily set aside.
