Marianne Beate Kielland

Sa Kort Ein Sommar Menneska Har - Songs by Gisle Kvernd Marianne Beate Kielland

Norwegian composer Gisle Kverndokk. Mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland & Pianist Nils Anders Mortensen. Shakespeare.

Summer is the main theme you'll sense here. The bright summer. The light that gives life, but which eventually turns into darkness - the summer that passes into autumn. The cycle of life and nature. Liv Holtskog's poem «So short is the summer we all have» tells us that everything is perishable. Summer is short. Life is short. But as Ruth Maier writes: "The days get brighter when you're in love with someone." Shakespeare writes "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?", while in sonnet 33 he describes how the sun is darkened by clouds when his beloved deceives him. In his poem "Don't Ask For Love" Wildenvey writes: «After a spring and a summer, autumn crushes it all - heavy and hard and cold.»