HENRIK ØDEGAARD - KOMPONIST
  • Forside
  • Kalender
  • Musikk
  • Om
    • Detaljert biografi
    • Bestillinger og urframføringer
    • Omtaler
    • Gregoriansk sang
    • Bilder
    • Lenker
  • Kontakt
  • Home
  • Events
  • Music
  • About
    • Detailed CV
    • Commissions and world premiers
    • Reviews
    • Press images
    • Links
  • Contact

Henrik Ødegaard
composer

CD release: Resurrexi

24/1/2021

 
Picture
The cd "Resurrexi" has been released!
The female choir of Choeur grégorien de Paris and  organist Henrik de Rohan-Csermak are out with a new cd production! It contains music from three different sources: Gregorian chant executed in traditional way, organ pieces of the french composer Charles Tournemire (1870-1939), and new composisions by Henrik Ødegaard, with gregorian melodies as material. All pieces have connection with easter, Resurrexi means "I am risen". The choir is conducted by Olga Raudakova and the cd has been produced by Giedrius Gapsys. It can be ordered from Bayard musique.
Tracks composed by Henrik Ødegaard:
Resurrexi (Cantus I)
Kyrie Lux et Origo
Victimæ paschali laudes (Cantus XIII)
O filii et filiæ(Cantus XIV)
In exitu Israel (Cantus XV)

"Beatitudes" realesed today

16/10/2020

 
Seven years after it’s premiere, Henrik Ødegaard Beatitudes is set for an album release on Simax Classics.
Beatitudes feels like a journey - both across the world and through the centuries. The works’ lyrical origin is the Beatitudes as presented in the Gospel of Matthew.
On this record, Ødegaaard is joined by Oslo Chamber Choir, the vocal sextet Nordic Voices, and conductor Håkon Nystedt, who all were a part of the original performance. It started as performance on commission from the Oslo International Church Festival in 2013, and was rewarded with critical acclaim for it’s beauty, emotion, lyrics, and pure talent by some of Norways most regarded newspapers.
To put the 2000 year old text in relief, it’s commented by lyrics from the 20th century in an array of languages. Professor Jan Erik Rekdal is a lyricist, translator and literary expert, and has processed these lyrics. Beatitudes contains songs and lyrics by Pablo Neruda, the greek autoht Konstantinos P. Kavafis, the German speaking Romanian lyricist Paul Celan, Jean Jouve, Gunnar Bjørling, and Norwegian author Gunvor Hofmo. In these words, we hear voices from prosecuted jews, patients at mental institutions, the sick and elderly, the one who longs for death, and the one who longs for beauty and light.
The biblical texts are sung by the choir in latin, something that - in a sense - gives Ødegaard as a composer some creative distance. The commentating texts are sung by Nordic Voices, and the tonal language varies vastly from song to song.
– My motivation for this recording is first and foremost to document and put one of my greatest works till now out there, as well as showing a bigger audience the magnificent ensembles in both Nordic Voices and the Oslo Chamber Choir, Ødegaard says.

Links to the album: Beatitudes
Picture
10. december 10.2020: Some of the movements are published on Youtube, for example:

Beati qui lugent
Beati misericordes
Beati pauperes
 

At last: real concerts again! World premiere in Tønsberg Cathedral 27th september.

8/9/2020

 
Picture
The world premiere of "Te Deum with five poems and a hymn by Jon Fosse" should have been in april, but due to Covid-19 it was cancelled and put out in time. But now Tønsberg cathedral choir and conductor Nina T. Karlsen are ready to perform the piece in the cathedral, on september 27. at 19:00. They perform togehter with organist Otto Cristian Odland, the soprano Ditte Maria Bræin, the barytone Eirik Krokfjord as well as four horn players.
Te Deum is one of the olders christian hymns, dated back to 4th or 5th century. The song of praise has been attributed to Ambrose, men the origin is uncertain. The hymn has followed the christian church, and is among other places sung in cathedrals and monastries as a part of Matins every morning.
I have chosen to combine the latin text with new, norwegian poems written by the world famous playwright Jon Fosse. His world of images and simple, direct language contribute to pulling these classical texts  a little closer to us today, as well as giving a more relevant spirituality to the composision as a whole.
Picture

The Finnmark-oratory has now been recorded

24/9/2019

 
"Where day is the brother og night"
This oratory, composed by Henrik Ødegaard in 2002 with lyrics written by Laila Stien have now been recorded, conducted by Bjørn Andor Drage. Singers are Vokal Nord, conducted by Bjørn Andor Drage.
The lyrics are inspired by interview Stien and Ødegaard made in with people in Troms and Finnmark. They are performed in kven, sami and norwegian.  

See: Vokal Nord
Picture

Concerts in Latvia with Henrik Ødegaard's music

27/2/2019

 
Picture
The latvian womens choir BALTA have come together with Schola cantorum VOX IUBILANTIS, and they will perform two concerts with Henrik Ødegard's music. On the 6th of march they sing in St. Mary Magdalene's Church, Riga, and the 10th march in Bruknas church. "Balta" is conducted by Māra Marnauza, "Vox iubilantis" by Laina Tabora. They will perform 9 of Ødegaard's CANTUS-compositions, created during the years 2001- 2015. These are smaller pieces in wich a female schola and a traditional womens choir unite, and where the shola are the leaders in the rhytmic aspects of the performance.

Vox clamantis and schola sancta sunniva give world premiere in Nidaros cathedral

9/8/2018

 
Picture
September 28, 2018 at 22:00 these two outstanding ensembles unite in the world premiere of a new piece composed directly for them: "Meditations over St. Mary Magdalene's feast in Nidaros" borrows material from a 13th century antiphonal manuscript probably both written in and used in Nidaros, the medieval name of Trond-heim. The new piece is a fantasy around antiphons, hymns and psalms, where both ensemble function either as "medieval anchor" or contemporary commentator.
SSS has earlier worked with other parts of the menuscript «Add fol 47», in "Fingergullmess" and in their recordings of the St. Olaf office. Now it is Mary Magdalene's turn!
See: Trondheim chamber music festival

World premiere in Lillehammer: "Draumen" (the dream)

28/5/2018

 
Picture
Sunday june 3rd at 18:00 the chamber choir Ad Cantus and the hardanger fiddle player Sivert Andreas Holmen shall give world premiere to my new siute for choir and fiddle called "Draumen" ("The dream"). The suite has five movements, and the lyrics are written by norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge. Conductor is Ashild Alette Haugstad, and the concert takes place in Nordre Ål church, Lillehammer.

New piece for organ solo: The last words

28/5/2018

 
Saturday 10th march Ghislain Gourvennec shall give world performance to Henrik Ødegaards composition "The Last Words" in Skien church. The piece is based on the seven last words from Jesus on the cross, and the seven movements have a duration of 25 minutes. Gourvennec also performs "Weinen, klagen, sorgen sagen" by Franz Liszt.

Welcome!
Picture

A new, norwegian requiem

28/5/2018

 
Picture
Saturday the 4th november will the female choir "Kammerpikene" give world premiere to "Eit nynorsk rekviem" i Sortland kirke, Norway. Later the same day the concert will be repeated in Hadsel church, and the day after in Trondenes kirke close to Harstad, this concert as a part of Trondenesdagene.

The new composition, with lyrics by Jon Fosse, is intended to be performed together with the Requiem of Gabriel Faure.

Medvirkende:
Karoline Åseng, soprano solo
Henrik Sand Dagfinrud, barytone solo
Cellists from "Cellolyd": Synnove Volden, Tove Margrethe Erikstad, Lisa Isabel Holstad, Kristine Solberg
Double bass: Guro Stigen Kvannli
Harmonium: Nikolai Arctander Karlsen
Conductor: Hege Monica Eskedal

"Der dagen er nattens bror" on tour!

3/10/2017

 
Picture
The oratory "Der dagen er nattens bror" from 2002 will be performed on different places in the north of Norway in october:

October 24, 2017 at 19:00 in Kirkenes church
October 25, 2017 at 19:00 in Vadsø church
October 26, 2017 at 19:00 in Karasjok church
October 27,  2017 at 18:00 in "The Northern Light Cathredal", Alta
October 28, 2017 at 18:00 in Grønnåsen church, Tromsø
The tour also includes a CD production
The performers are singers from "Vokal Nord" conducted by Bjørn Andor Drage and an orchestra with musicians from the north of Norway
See Vokal Nord
<<Previous
Forward>>
Henrik Ødegaard, Årnes brygge 55, N-3810 Gvarv, Norge, Telefon + 47 905 77 950
Spotify
Instagram

  • Forside
  • Kalender
  • Musikk
  • Om
    • Detaljert biografi
    • Bestillinger og urframføringer
    • Omtaler
    • Gregoriansk sang
    • Bilder
    • Lenker
  • Kontakt
  • Home
  • Events
  • Music
  • About
    • Detailed CV
    • Commissions and world premiers
    • Reviews
    • Press images
    • Links
  • Contact