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Songs to Our Lady

Songs to Our Lady

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Elisabeth Meyer-TopsĂže
Elisabeth Meyer-Topsþe has always taken an interest in church music and has given church concerts from Skagen Church in northern Denmark and Aalborg, Aarhus and Viborg to the cathedrals in Ribe and Maribo and in many other beautiful churches in Denmark. Together with Organist Hans Norbert Bihlmaier she has recorded Danish hymns and together with Pianist Per Salo she has made an inter nationally acclaimed recording of Paul Hindemith’s Das Marienleben about the life and fate of Virgin Mary. Elisabeth Meyer-Topsþe, who in 2010 was appointed Professor of Classical Singing at the Trondheim Conservatory of Music, was educated at the Opera School in Stockholm and has taken private lessons with Sten Hþgel, Vagn Thordal and Court Singer Birgit Nilsson. In 2006 she graduated from the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music as a Master of Elite Singing Teaching.
Birgitte Ebert
Birgitte Ebert graduated as an MA in Church Music from the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in 1987 after having studied with Professors Flemming Dreisig and Leif Thybo. In 1990 she had her debut concert as a student of Professor Grethe Krogh. She received further education at LĂŒbeck Musikhochschule 1988-89 with Professor Martin Haselböck and with Professor Olivier Latry in Paris 1994-95. In 2000 she finished a master’s degree in Pedagogy of Music at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music. In the same year, after ten years as Organist at Hellerup Church in North Copenhagen, she was appointed Organist at Ribe Cathedral thus becoming the first female Cathedral Organist in Denmark.

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Camille Saint-Saëns 
1. Ave Maria

Franz Schubert
2. Ave Maria (from Sieben GesÀnge aus Walter Scotts die FrÀulein vom See op. 52, 1825)

Charles Gounod 
3. Ave Maria 1859

Léon Boëllmann
4. PriĂšre Ă  Notre-Dame (from Suite Gothique op. 25, 1895) Organ solo

Max Reger
5. MariÀ Wiegenlied (from Schlichte Lieder, op. 76, 1911-12)

Henry Purcell 
6. The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation 1693

Paul Hindemith
7. PietĂĄ (from Das Marienleben opus 27, 1948)

Paul Hindemith
8. Stillung MariÀ mit dem Auferstandenen (from Das Marienleben opus 27, 1948)

Rued Langgaard 
9. The Annunciation BVN 262, 1941 (Organ solo)

Hildegard af Bingen 
10. Quia ergo fra Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum

Giuseppe Verdi
11. Ave Maria 1880 (Dante)

CĂ©sar Franck
12. Ave Maria FWV 62, 1863

Gabriel Fauré
13. Ave Maria op. 67, 1894-95

Giuseppe Verdi 
14. Ave Maria (from Otello, 1887)

Heinrich Marschner 
15. Ave Maria (from op. 115, 1842)

Johann Sebastian Bach
16. Meine Seel’ erhebt den Herren BWV 648 (Organ solo)

Anton Bruckner 
17. Ave Maria WAB 7, 1882

Bo Gunge
18. Stabat mater 2009 (First performance)

Richard Wagner
19. AllmĂ€cht’ge Jungfrau (from TannhĂ€user, 1845)

Songs to our Lady ©
The lyrics to the Latin Hail Mary prayer are used in five of the works on this CD (tracks [ 1 ], [ 3 ], [12], [13] and [17]). In addition, parts of the prayer may
be recognized in tracks [11] and [14]. The prayer is divided into two parts (cf. the English translation of the lyrics):
Part one: Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, benedicta tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus is taken from the Gospel of St. Luke ch. 1, in which the Angel Gabriel greets Mary and tells her that she is to give birth to Jesus.
Part two: Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen was added in the 13th century, and the prayer as a
whole still constitutes an important part of the Catholic Rosary, which also includes the Apostles’ Creed and the Our Father. The Hail Mary prayer was prayed in Ribe Cathedral as in all other churches for centuries, but with the Reformation and the Protestant Church it disappeared. Remaining is Virgin Mary, Our Lady, as the Mother of Jesus and a Faith Heroine as Kierkegaard calls her, who gave her life and body so that the Word might become flesh when she said, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.”

RELEASE DATE: APRIL 2010

CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 700

EAN: 5709499700006

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