Doors: 18:00
Event start: 19:00
Seated concert
The collaboration between In the Country, Solveig Slettahjell and Knut Reiersrud is a musical stroke of luck. They joined forces for a concert at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2014, which resulted in the live album Norwegian Woods.
With their latest album Remembrance, Solveig Slettahjell has selected poems by Emily and Charlotte Brontë and Emily Dickinson, to which Morten Qvenild has composed music. These poets are now considered some of the greatest writers in history, but because they were women, their vast body of work was never published under their own names during their lifetimes. These poets lived in a time when life was fragile, and grief was a familiar companion for many. The texts are marked by awareness and loss, but also by hope and a will to live.
Qvenild has placed these texts in a beautiful dialogue with the music. This dialogue takes on a deeper dimension when two of our leading vocalists, Solveig Slettahjell and Sidsel Endresen, lend their voices to the project. Qvenild has composed grounded songs in a modern style and cleverly connected and contrasted the lyrics and music. With Reiersrud, Arntzen, and Hausken on the team, this is all fused into a unique whole, where the music consistently reflects a deep connection to the relational texts of Brontë and Dickinson.
Solveig Slettahjell – vocals, Morten Qvenild – keyboards, Knut Reiersrud – guitar, Roger Arntzen – bass, Pål Hausken – drums
©Marte Garmann
