Camilla Tilling & Håvard Gimse

With song titles such as 'Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte' (The Girl Came from Her Lover's Meeting), 'Du er min Afrodite' ('You Are My Aphrodite), and 'Nattergalen' ('The Nightingale'), the stage is set for an evening of romance, melancholy, and nature at Troldhaugen, Edvard Grieg's home.

Pianist Håvard Gimse is known for championing Nordic works wherever he performs around the world and has a particular passion for the music of Geirr Tveitt. For this concert, he has invited Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling to Grieg’s own paradise. Together, they will perform songs by Grieg himself, Sibelius, and a selection of Swedish composers, including Amanda Maier-Röntgen, who met Edvard Grieg while studying in Leipzig. The programme also includes Gimse’s reconstructions of several of Tveitt’s works—music may not have been performed publicly since the composer’s lifetime.

Despite her global soloist career, this is Camilla Tilling’s first concert at the Bergen International Festival, and rumor has it that she was moved to tears at the thought of performing at Troldhaugen. Although the soprano is known for filling large opera roles and venues on both sides of the Atlantic, Troldsalen’s intimate concert hall will allow you to experience the Swedish star up close.

Camilla TIlling. Photo: Carin Ekblom. Håvard Gimse Photo: Ilja Hendel

Venue

Troldhaugen

With your concert ticket you can book free return bus transportation from the Tourist Information to the venue. Departure one hour before the concert starts, return after the concert. The journey takes approx. 30 min. 

Contributors

Camilla Tilling soprano
Håvard Gimse piano

Music by

• Grieg

• de Frumerie

• Sjögren

• Maier

Works

• Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
  6 Songs, op. 48
  Greeting
  One Day, O Heart of Mine
  The Way of the World
  The Nightingale’s Secret
  The Time of Roses
  A Dream

• Amanda Maier-Röntgen (1853–1894)
  4 Songs
  Aftonklockan (The Evening Bell)
  Den sjuke flickans sång (The sick girl’s song)
  Ungt mod (Young courage)
  Sången (The song)

• Emil Sjøgren (1853–1918)
  Love songs, op. 50 (1909)
  Du skulle få vad allra fagrast sander … (You would receive the sweetest gifts …)
  Giv icke rosor, skymning … (Oh, bright twilight …)
  Tänd stjärnor! (Stars, guide my path!)

• Geirr Tveitt (1908–1981)
  New performance of reconstructed/arranged works
  Morild – Sillage Phosphorescants (Etude for solo piano, new revised version 2024 by Håvard Gimse), reconstructed from original recordings 2005–13 of C Jensen, W Plagge, J R Storheim, G I Lotsberg and H Gimse.
  Two song transcriptions for solo piano by Håvard Gimse (World premiere)
  Letter to Byron in Heaven
  The Langeleik

• Gunnar de Frumerie (1908–1987)
  Songs of the Heart, op. 27
  När du slutar mina ögon (When you close my eyes)
  Det blir vackert der du går (Where you walk is beautiful)
  Saliga ventan (Blissful waiting)
  Ur djupet av min själ (From the depths of my soul)
  Du er min Afrodite (You are my Aphrodite)
  Som en våg (As a wave washes against the shore)

• Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
  5 Songs, op. 37
  Den första kyssen (The First Kiss)
  Lasse liten (Little Lasse)
  Soluppgång (Sunrise)
  Var det en dröm? (Was it a dream?)
  Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte (The girl returned from meeting her lover)

Supported by

The Savings Bank Foundation DNB