CATHARINUS ELLING (1858-1942): 3 Songs to Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", Op. 42, 4 Songs, Op. 41, 5 Songs, Op. 40, 4 Randers Songs, Op. 54, 8 Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn".

Description: All of this Norwegian composer's 200+ songs were written in the first part of his long career (1880s and 1890s) and have been banished to oblivion by the songs of Grieg and Kjerulf. These are simple settings almost to a fault, none more than a bit over three minutes, concerned with simple melodies and accompaniments whether the song is about love or the social backwardness of modern Norwegian life. For conoisseurs of Nordic song. Norwegian, German-English texts. Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Nils Anders Mortensen (piano).