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Benedicte Maurseth - Benedicte Maurseth (2019) [Hi-Res]

Benedicte Maurseth - Benedicte Maurseth (2019) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Benedicte Maurseth

  • Title: Benedicte Maurseth
  • Year Of Release: 2019
  • Label: Heilo
  • Genre: World, Folk
  • Quality: MP3 320 kbps; 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC
  • Total Time: 47:16 min
  • Total Size: 248; 110; 483 MB
  • WebSite:
Hardanger fiddle player and vocalist Benedicte Maurseth (1983) is a well-established and esteemed performer and composer on Norway’s folk music scene. While born in the beautiful Hardanger Fjord region in Western Norway, today her home is in the city of Bergen where she works as a freelance musician. Maurseth studied with Hardanger fiddle master Knut Hamre for more then 20 years, and has traditional music from Hardanger as her specialty. She is an alumna of the prestigious Ole Bull Academy for Norwegian Folk Music, and in recent years, Maurseth has expanded her work to include Norwegian traditional folk singing (kveding). In 2007 she came to wider attention as Norway’s ‘Young Folk Musician of the Year. Maurseth has toured extensively as a soloist and in collaboration with others both in Norway and internationally. She works closely with many of the leading artists across genres, especially within early music and improvised music. She has also focused on work with writers and actors including Jon Fosse, Svein Tindberg and Anne Marit Jacobsen as well as musicians Knut Hamre, Nils Økland and Berit Opheim Maurseth has a deep interest in baroque instruments and has for several years worked with fiddles dating back to the 1700s. She use gut strings and Baroque bows and has lately also begun to explore the viola d’amore. Maurseth has also for many years composed new material for the Hardanger fiddle, both for solo performances, solo-recordings, and for he stage version of Jon Fosse's Andvake at Norwegian Theater in 2009, and Morgon og kveld at The National Theater, in 2015. Her latest commissioned work titled Tidekverv, was premiered at Oslo International Church Music festival in 2017, together with Berit Opheim, Rolf Lislevand and Håkon Mørch Stene. 2014 saw the international release of her new album Over Tones with singer Åsne Valland Nordli, on Germany’s ECM Records label. Same year Maurseth debuted also as author on Samlaget, with the book: Å vera ingenting – Samtalar med spelemannen Knut Hamre (To be nothing. Conversations with fiddle player Knut Hamre).

Tracklist:
01. Benedicte Maurseth - Huldre mi (4:05)
02. Benedicte Maurseth - Huldreslått I & I, as played by Eirik Medås (7:40)
03. Benedicte Maurseth - Huldreslått, as played by Olav Håstabø (9:03)
04. Benedicte Maurseth - Etterdønning (4:25)
05. Benedicte Maurseth - Den 4. Gorrlausen, as played by Andres K. Rysstad (3:59)
06. Benedicte Maurseth - Og fargane skiftar på fjorden (6:27)
07. Benedicte Maurseth - Nøringen, as played by Per Berge (2:58)
08. Benedicte Maurseth - Bygdatråen, as played by Nils Mørkve (8:41)

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