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\"\"<\/a>Catherine Carby, mezzo \u2013soprano, soprano Leah Thomas and pianist Sharolyn Kimmorley perform a programme of Scandinavian art songs this weekend for Art Song NSW (see \u201cOn Wings of Art Song\u201d).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The vocal repertoire is replete with works in French, German and Italian. Even Russian and Czech are regularly heard in opera and art song. But Swedish\u2026.?<\/p>\n

Catherine Carby studied Scandinavian art song as a student in London. She gives us some first hand insights on singing in Swedish:<\/p>\n

\u201cOn paper, it’s easy to recognise that Swedish is related to German, which is great for me as I enjoy singing in German. Vowel sounds are like German or even French and there is also a special “dark” a: \u00e5 which is pronounced as “aw” in English\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u00a0learnt a\u00a0great deal\u00a0about\u00a0Swedish when I was at The Royal College of Music in London, studying with a Swedish teacher, Britta Sundberg, from the Stockholm Academy\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe worked on\u00a0numerous\u00a0songs by Sibelius, as well as Danish and Norwegian songs by composers like Christian Sinding, Nils Gade and Carl Nielsen. The songs in Sibelius\u2019 Op 13 are all set to poetry by Runeberg, one of the most revered of Swedish poets. They are also Sibelius\u2019 first published opus, so it’s interesting to see the kernel of ideas that came to fruition later, for example, in op 36 and 37 and 90 – the “famous” song cycles\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, whilst I\u2019ve described them as \u2018song cycles\u2019, the term isn\u2019t strictly applicable. The songs are not related musically or textually.\u00a0 This is also the case with the later cycles – they aren’t really cycles so much as \u2018song collections\u2019 \u201c.<\/p>\n

\u201cRuneberg\u2019s poetry demands the use of more formal pronunciation, as opposed to the rather folksy songs I’m doing later in the program – think Yeats pronounced in broad Cockney!\u201d<\/p>\n


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