Track length: | 3:08 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339401 |
Track length: | 7:54 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339402 |
Track length: | 5:43 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339403 |
Track length: | 3:39 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339404 |
Track length: | 2:48 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339405 |
Track length: | 3:48 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339406 |
Track length: | 3:28 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339407 |
Track length: | 8:33 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339408 |
Track length: | 7:31 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339409 |
Track length: | 4:02 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339410 |
Track length: | 2:22 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339411 |
Track length: | 8:20 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339412 |
Track length: | 5:03 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339413 |
Track length: | 2:33 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339414 |
Track length: | 3:50 |
Artist: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Performer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | ECM Records/Verlag GmbH |
Composer: | Ketil Bjørnstad |
ISRC: | DEB333339415 |
Ketil Bjørnstad’s passion for the English metaphysical poet John Donne (1572-1631) is a lifelong affair. His settings of Donne’s verse have led to recordings including The Shadow, Grace and the ECM album The Light. “After working with the texts of John Donne for more than twenty years, I still find new approaches to understanding what he wrote and I find music throughout. It is in the language, in the rhythm, in the silence between the sentences - a passionate quest for meaning and reconciliation. Donne's dramatic life is reflected in the texts and everywhere in them you will find the passion, melodies and sounds”. Bjørnstad wrote A passion for John Donne for the Oslo International Church Festival in the winter of 2011/2012 and the premiere performance – documented here – was at the Sofienberg Kirke in Oslo in March 2012. The Oslo Chamber Choir is sensitively directed by Håkon Daniel Nystedt, and passion is personified in the unique performance of Håkon Kornstad, who makes his ECM debut, as both tenor saxophonist and classical tenor singer.
Personel
Håkon Kornstad saxophone, flute, voice
Ketil Bjørnstad piano
Birger Mistereggen percussion
Oslo Chamber Choir
Håkon Daniel Nystedt conductor
ECM 2014
Described as “a cultural prodigy” by The Guardian’s John Fordham, Ketil Bjørnstad studied piano in Oslo, London and Paris, and was set for a career in classical music before exposure to jazz changed his priorities. Although he did not come to ECM until 1993 with “Water Stories” he was involved with the label’s musicians from the early 1970s; his 1973 debut album featuring Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen as rhythm section. From the outset he was also active as journalist and author. From 1972-1998, he was music and literature critic for Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten. He published his first book of poems in 1972 and his first novel in 1974. Many books have followed since then and translations have appeared in Danish, Swedish, German, Dutch, Finnish, English, French, Czech, Polish, Korean, Russian, Bengali, Greek and Turkish.