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Mats Eilertsen Trio & Trio Mediaeval: Memorabilia

Read "Memorabilia" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
August 25, 2020

Talk of an album sounding highly reminiscent of something that could be released on Manfred Eicher's ECM label is quite common. But it does not come as a surprise anymore that much of today's music shares similar melancholic and minimalist contemporary leanings with the aesthetic found on the pioneering Munich-based label. However, this debut date, led between bassist Mats Eilertsen, his trio and Trio Mediaeval, screams ECM. Not only have both Eilertsen and the vocal trio recorded extensively with ECM, ...

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Trio Mediaeval: Rímur

by Mario Calvitti
August 30, 2018

Rimur (vocabolo che ha già fornito il titolo anche a un album dei Sigur Ros) sono le canzoni in rima o allitterate della tradizione epica islandese che forniscono la base di partenza per questo album del Trio Mediaeval, dove alle voci delle tre cantanti norvegesi si unisce quella strumentale del trombettista loro connazionale Arve Henriksen. I quattro avevano già precedentemente collaborato fin dal 2007 per concerti dal vivo, e avevano partecipato all'incisione dell'album di Sinikka Langeland The Magical Forest, che ...

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Trio Mediaeval & Arve Henriksen: Rímur

by Mark Sullivan
May 15, 2017

Rímur are songs in the unique Icelandic tradition of rhyming narrative verse. Transmitted orally for centuries, in the twentieth century they were recorded and transcribed by ethnographers and folk song collectors. They form part of the inspiration for this music, along with chants, folk songs, religious hymns, and fiddle tunes. There's also an emphasis on improvisation, in collaboration with trumpeter Arve Henriksen. While the Norwegian singers and trumpeter have often performed together in live settings, their only previous recording was ...

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Trio Mediaeval & Arve Henriksen: Rímur

by Henning Bolte
March 1, 2017

Rímur is a collection of seventeen chants, hymns, folk songs and improvisations based on ancient Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish sources, brought into our contemporary way of sensing by singer/violinist Anna Maria Friman, singers Linn Andrea Fuglseth and Berit Opheim, and eminent trumpeter Arve Henriksen. The music of this album is a clear example of the deep-rooted migrational nature of our local existence. It is music of a remote past, marked by radically different life conditions. It is music ...

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Trio Mediaeval: A Worcester Ladymass

Read "A Worcester Ladymass" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 10, 2011

Cobbled together from the scraps and remnants left from Henry VII's 1536-41 dissolution of Catholic Monasteries, this Worcester Ladymass ("Ladymass"--Mass in honor of the Blessed Virgin, in this particular case for the Feast of the Assumption, August 15) was studiously assembled by Nicky Losseff, the music editor for the Norse Trio Mediaeval. Research revealed that neither a Credo (I believe recitation of the Apostles' Creed) or Benedictamus Domino (Let us bless the Lord) were present among the fragments and so, ...

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Live Review

Trio Mediaeval: Toronto, Canada, March 23, 2011

by John Kelman
March 29, 2011

Trio Mediaeval with The Toronto ConsortSt. Anne's Anglican Church Toronto, Canada March 23, 2011 When there's the kind of chemistry that Trio Mediaeval has sharpened over the past decade, the loss of one of its singers--even if temporary--could be a recipe for, if not disaster, then, at least, a significant shift in its internal dynamics. With Anna Maria Friman on temporary hiatus, following the birth of twins last summer, the remaining vocalists--founder Linn Andrea Fuglseth ...

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Album Review

Trio Mediaeval: A Worcester Ladymass

Read "A Worcester Ladymass" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
March 19, 2011

Aside from the detour of Folk Songs (ECM, 2007)--which looked to the traditional music of its own country, Norway--Trio Mediaeval has focused primarily on sacred music, dating as far back as the 12th century but, equally, as contemporary as the current millennium, using mass material from England, France, Italy...even modern-day Korea. Trio Mediaeval performs medieval music but, as singer Anna Maria Friman notes in the liners to A Worcester Ladymass, “free from obligations towards a certain system, and there are ...