Conveying Authenticity: Folk songs in the art‑music tradition

"Conveying Authenticity" grows from a singer-researcher project on how to balance performative freedom with close engagement with the score. Berio's Folk Songs are in dialogue with folk‑based works by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff, alongside Armenian and Azerbaijani songs and indigenous Altai music. Each piece is approached as a point of departure rather than a fixed answer: Comparing collections and recordings, attending to language and prosody, and, where possible, seeking guidance from native speakers and tradition‑bearers. Choices about timbre, rhythmic structures, and ornamentation follow from text and context rather than from the score alone. The aim is not imitation, but a practised openness – allowing traces of the songs' origins to live in the voice and ensemble. This performance offers one path among many: A way of listening, questioning, and testing in practice, with the hope that the songs' own language and character remain present within the concert setting.

• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971): Pribaoutki – for voice and piano
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943): Three Russian Songs, Op. 41 No. 3: Belilitsy, rumyanitsy, vy moi (arr. for voice and piano)
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953): Op. 104: Zelyonaya roshchitsa and Katerina
• Traditional songs from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Altai
• Luciano Berio (1925–2003): Folk Songs

• Irina Korchuganova (voice)
• Simon Lane (piano)
• Andrine Dyblie Erdal (cello)
• Ingeborg Fjæran Tveit (flute)
• Laura Madaliso Beer Kumwenda (viola)
• Mathea Røstad Rosenvold, Sigurd Adrian Schøyen (percussion)
• Steponas Plukas (clarinet)