«(un)Romantic / Improvising interpretation» has been a duo exploration with late romantic songs as starting point, led by vocalist Live Maria Roggen and pianist Ingfrid Breie Nyhus.
Roggen and Nyhus experiment with traditioning and interpretation, and with improvisation as method. What is romantic and what is unromantic? What can an interpretation be? How can we work with creative interpretation? Where does the new begin and where does the old go? What can improvisation with residues and memories, tell about the song that was?
The project's reflection and dissemination is in Research Catalogue.
Two albums are part of the project's results; "Symfoni" (2024) and "Skymt" (2023) - in addition to the album "Demanten" (2022) published earlier in the process. See links below.
The album "Symfoni" contains versions of romantic songs after R Strauss, A Mahler, S Rachmaninoff and R Wagner, as well as G Mahler's Symphony nr 4, in recompositions by Live Maria Roggen and Ingfrid Breie Nyhus, that have been taken into improvisatory play together with Morten Qvenild on live electronics.
Listen to "Symfoni" (2024)The improvisations on the album "Skymt" are remnants of memories from songs by J Sibelius and Finnish-Swedish poets, by Live Maria Roggen and Ingfrid Breie Nyhus.
Listen to "Skymt" (2023)The EP "Demanten" was published January 2022, with Roggen/Nyhus' improvised versions of four songs by Jean Sibelius.
Listen to "Demanten" (2022)
Published: Feb 1, 2021 — Last updated: Apr 1, 2025
