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15 songs to poems by Gustav Fröding (15 sange til digte af Gustav Fröding)

" ... These fifteen Fröding songs cover a wide spectrum of emotions, from folksy humoristic rural stories via satirical portraits – good-natured but biting – to deeply philosophical and serious personal and universal analyses. Matti Borg varies the expressivity of the music depending on the content of the texts.

I heard his Fröding songs a few years ago at a concert at Opera på Skäret, with the same singers as here but with piano accompaniment. A couple of them turned up somewhat later at the Jussi Björling Festival at Voxna with Gitta-Maria Sjöberg and I took them to my heart.

With his background and training it’s no wonder that Matti Borg has a special talent for vocal music. He knows the instrument, whether for solo purposes or for the intricacies of part-song singing. Without having seen the music I sense the care for the inner voices, which in lesser hands tends to be perfunctory and for the singer uninteresting — I have sung in various choirs for close to fifty years. These settings in fact sound organic and integrated in sound. As for the tonal language, with its roots in the late-romantic Nordic choral tradition, it is accessible and “Nordic”. 

It is always a hazardous venture to set poetry associated with already established versions and Matti Borg passes this test gloriously." Read more

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Day of Happiness (Lykkedag) - With Kurt Ravn and The Nordic Five

"This CD is the result of a unique collaboration between Juliane Preisler and composer Matti Borg, who have produced a gentle, folk-inflected and hugely melodic collection of songs and ballads, sincerely and sensitively performed in Dansih by actor Kurt Ravn and The Nordic Five, an unusually constituted group of string players. Try it, and you'll find yourself humming along."


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