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| | GRIEG/SIGURD JORSALFAR SACD |
 | | Ole Kristian Ruud conducting the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra performing Edvard Grieg's Sigurd Jorsalfar, incidental music for baritone, male choir and orchestra, Op. |
 | | This time, the theme is music inspired by the composer's countryman, the poet Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832-1910), himself greatly inspired by ancient Norwegian heroic poetry. |
 | | Hagegård is soloist on two more works on the disc, of which Landkjenning (Land Sighting) also employs a Bjørnson text based on an incident in the life of Viking king Olav Trygvason, who on returning by ship from England in 995, decides to build the great cathedral of Nidaros (the present Trondheim). |
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