Hardanger Fiddle Music of Norway [Import]

Knut Buen (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 1, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Saydisc
• ASIN: B00003CLUF
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #466,221 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Klonkaren (The Bell-Ringer)

2. Myllargutens Bruremarsj (Myllarguten's Wedding March)

3. Myllargangar Etter Halvor Flatland (Myllargangar After Halvor Flatland)

4. Siklebekken (The Trickling Beck) [Springar]

5. Maltstein (Malt Stone)

6. Kivlemøyane Etter Myllarguten (The Kivle Maidens After ...)

7. Kivlemøyane Etter Myllarguten (The Kivle Maidens After ...)

8. Kivlemøyane Etter Myllarguten (The Kivle Maidens After ...)

9. Kivlemøyane Etter Myllarguten (The Kivle Maidens After ...)

10. Filleveren (The Ragged Ram)

11. Fyrispel (Prelude)

12. Kivlemøyane (The Kivle Maidens)

13. Håvards Draum (Håvard's Dream) [Springar]

14. Kivlegangar (Kivlegangar)

15. Sigurd Jondalen (Siguard Jondalen) [Springar]

16. Leirlid'n (Leirlid's Tune)

17. Margit Hjukse (Margit Hjukse) [Lydarslått]

18. Rosa, Lydarslått Etter Lars Fykerud Og Svein Løndal (Rosa, ...)

19. Gangar Etter Lars Fykerud (Gangar After Lars Fykerud)

20. Huldregubben I Gaustafjell (The Forest Ogre of Gaustafjell) [Lydarslåt]

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Norway's Tangy Folk Fiddle Music, Superbly Performed!, June 18, 2007

By 

Gerald Parker "Gerald Parker" (Rouyn-Noranda, QC., Dominion of Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hardanger Fiddle Music of Norway (Audio CD)

This recording is quite enjoyable, at least for the listener who has "open ears" for sounds that would seem unfamiliar and quaintly odd to the average North American. This listener is of partly Scandanavian descent (although Swedish, not Norwegian), accustomed to the folk, popular, and Lutheran religious music of the region, being no ethnomusicological expert on this music, but it sounds fine to these ears!

The hardanger fiddle is a Norwegian folk adaptation of the violin, slightly smaller and with sympathetically vibrating strings that resonate along with those which the performer fingers and bows or plucks, among its numerous other distinguishing characteristics. The instrument has a repertory of very tangy, rather exotic-sounding folk tunes that make for many unexpected turns of melody, ornamentation, and harmony as most listerners would perceive this peculiar music. At first, someone not acquainted with Norwegian folk music may want to sample this disc a few tunes at a time, but the music should "grow on" him with exposure, to make for enjoyable listening from the disc's beginning to its conclusion. Knut Buen plays these quirky folk tunes, as all of the disc's music, with real bravura and superb musicianship, as well as full, pleasing tone and excellent intonation. Recommended highly for the adventurous listener!