Artists

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Terje Tønnesen artistic leader

Håkon Kornstad tenor saxophone/ tenor

Mats Eilertsen double bass
Frode Haltli accordion

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Programme

 

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber / Iannis Xenakis

Entratra fra Sonata à 6 i B-dur og 'Aroura'

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

O del mio dolce ardor from 'Paris og Helena'

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Béla Bartók

Divertimento for Strings, Sz 113

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Paolo Tosti

Marechiare

Tristezza

L'ultima canzone

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Richard Wagner

Im Treibhaus

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Franz Schubert 

Du bist die Ruh

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Édouard Lalo 

Vainement, ma bien-aiméee fra operaen 'Le roi d'Ys'

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Edvard Grieg 

Jeg reiste en deilig sommerkveld

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What do you call a seamless mix between jazz and classical music, interspersed with Italian folk songs backed by accordion, double bass and string instruments?  In the middle of it all, we find Håkon Kornstad moving effortlessly between his tenor sax and mellifluous vocal.

Kornstad, renowned for his virtuosity, har already enjoyed a successful international career as a jazz saxophonist, before deciding to take up opera singing, earning a master's degree from the Norwegian Opera Academy. Since then, he has paved a way to his unique musical world, where his operatic tenor voice is complimented with lustrous tenor sax combining two vastly different musical expressions. 

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