Sommerkoncert "Sorrig og glæde"
Summer concert with Else Torp, soprano – Lene Langballe, cornetto and recorder – Vibeke Astner, organ. A fascinating world of early music in a new era.
Tuesday, 1 July at 5 p.m.: ‘Sorrow and Joy’
Ringkøbing Church. Admission: 100 kr. (free for young people under 25).
This concert invites the audience into a very special world of sound. A place where the human voice merges with instrumental sound in a beautiful and subtle borderland of sound.
The trio takes its starting point in Kingo's fantastic texts and explores human life in his characteristic and concrete way.
The cornetto was the most celebrated wind instrument of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods, precisely because of its unique ability to imitate the human voice, which was the absolute ideal of sound at the time.
This combination of sounds was very popular throughout Europe, including in the Nordic countries and thus Denmark, where skilled singers and cornetto players were employed at the royal court.
The musicians present the programme and instruments and talk about the music as they play.
The performers:
Else Torp is a member of Paul Hillier's Theater of Voices, where she sings both older and Baroque works as well as modern pieces. Her Harmonia Mundi recording of Arvo Pärt's ‘My Heart's in the Highlands’ with organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent is on the soundtrack of Paolo Sorrentino's Oscar-winning film The Great Beauty and was selected by Nick Cave to be featured on a promotional CD in the February 2014 issue of MOJO Music Magazine, USA. She also sang on ‘Distant Sky’ on Nick Cave's 2016 album Skeleton Tree.
Else Torp has collaborated with renowned ensembles such as Concerto Copenhagen, Lautten Compagney in Berlin, Kronos Quartet and most recently the New York Philharmonic.
Lene Langballe studied recorder at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with Vicki Boeckman and at Civica Scuola in Milan with Pedro Memelsdorff, graduating in 1997. She continued her studies in recorder with Conrad Steinmann and cornetto with Bruce Dickey at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, graduating with a soloist diploma in 2002.
Lene Langballe is extremely active as a recorder and cornetto player, collaborating with Europe's leading early music ensembles, and is a sought-after cornetto player both in Denmark and abroad. She collaborates with Concerto Copenhagen, Serikon, Göteborg Baroque and Ensemble Blackguard, among others.
Vibeke Astner trained as a concert soloist in the Soloist Class at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and as an organist and cantor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. She is a sought-after soloist and chamber musician at concerts throughout Europe. She has recorded eight critically acclaimed CDs. She often performs on DR/P2. She is a prize winner at P2's chamber music competition. Organist at St. Lukas Church, Aarhus. She teaches and is head of the organ department at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus.