Nordic Voices will give a concert at Iglesia de Santo Domingo in Pamplona the 5th of April at 20:00 and a concert in Iglesia de la Encarnación the 6th of April in Bilbao.
Himmelske Fader, Heavenly Father are the words from a very famous and religious Norwegian folk song. Together with the song ”Solbøn” we´d like to take you through the Norvegian folktune singing tradition in a nice blend with microtonality and Tuvan overtone singing. Lasse Thoresen has in ”Himmelske Fader” developed his own musical landscape from one rendition of this song. The text is a prayer saying that all people should be granted some salvation during their lives, and in a beautiful way these words also sums up the other texts of this program.
The program is a mixture by Nordic contemporary music, combined with the masterly skills of the Spanish renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria. Victoria was born in Sanchidrián in the province of Ávila, Castile around 1548 and died in 1611. He was indeed the composer that defined the Spanish vocal music in this period and his music expressed the passion of Spanish mysticism and religion. Asbjørn Schaatun wrote the piece Verklärung to the group in 2003. Some of the works by Tomás Luis de Victoria in this program will be available on a recording by Nordic Voices which is due to be released in June this year, and the rest is already to be found on our cd ”Lamentations”.