If you didn't cry after listening to this, you've either got a stone heart or a glass eye. She's a fabulous singer--perfect diction, breath control, phrasing--and HEART. Norway should be very proud of her--and this beautiful work that touches hearts.
Her voice is crystal clear and beautiful to hear. I first heard this when I was a boy in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York. It was the closing theme to the live TV show I Remember Mama, starring Peggy Wood. Decades later, I saw the movie with Irene Dunne and fell in love again. But, it was several decades before I learned that Våren was written by Edvard Grieg! Now, I play it on my own instruments (Mark VI Tenor sax, Kessler Model 2 Bass Clarinet, and Buffet-Crampon R-13 Clarinet. It's beautiful no matter which instrument is used. Whenever a fellow musician hears me "warm up" with Våren, I get compliments.
Such a lovely voice; this is a soprano with the talent and look for been one of the most important ones!!!.I like her very much. She touches my soul...Bravooo!!!!
Edvard Grieg would undoubtedly be ecstatic at the stunning performance of his music.The purity of her golden voice is heightened only by the intense expressiveness and sensitivity to the music.
Wonderful Grieg, and Sissel.......wonderful interpretation.....her expression helps a lot to enjoy the song. when she smiles.......it comes the spring too
SISSEL'S VOICE IS PERFECT FOR GRIEG'S MUSIC...KIND OF MOURNFUL, YET VERY VERY SWEET.I FIRST HEARD HER SING AT THE OPENING OF THE WINTER GAMES IN L(?). I WONDERED...'WHO IS THIS BEAUTIFUL SINGER?' LATER A NORWEGIAN FRIEND TOLD ME AND I THOUGHT THAT THE WORLD SHOULD HEAR HER.
My heart flows up to the ligth of her singing, ...oh what little is left and how much still for all!!!. But I am a drain glass, ready to stop filling up. Thanks to Sissel for giving me joy now...when most needed!!!
When she sings looking at the camera, she hypnotizes me, with her angel voice and celestial beauty ! Beautiful, very beautiful! Tks, Sisselfan...as I would like to be in Bergen, tomorrow, for listen in the room Grieg. but that is impossible. Again thank you, and also for the translation! Walter (Brazil)
Thanks for uploading this - I'm currently learning this song myself and trying to get my tongue around the Norwegian isn't easy but it's great to hear someone with such clear diction! Great help, thanks! :)
Sissel is often criticized by armchair opera "experts" for not displaying enough emotion when singing classical songs. These people don't know how to listen or watch. Her ability to express emotion through tonality is incredible and together with the expressiveness of her face, she communicates the emotion of her songs more clearly than any "real" opera singer I have ever heard.
This well-produced video, subtitles provided, brings to a world-wide audience a beautiful singer, a beautiful language and beautiful music. - John Austin, Australia
@ketillflatnefur the reason she's smiling so much is because she's doing what most stage singers call "flirting with the audience". it's one of the most important things about singing on the stage, dragging everybody in the hall into your performance. which is also why she never really rests her eyes on one set thing (except when she's looking straight at the camera), she keeps moving her line of sight. it's one of the first things most singing teachers teach you, actually.
Un detalle que llama la atención en Sissel es la pureza de su voz,sin afeites,sin modulaciones extra,directa, y sin esfuerzo alguno . Pese a que su voz es pura y cristalina mantiene un volumen adecuado sin que se le note tensión en el aparato fonador. No en vano Sissel se encuentra desde hace mas de una década en los principales escenarios deleitándonos con su voz.
I took furmitten's advice, and listened to Karita Mattila version. While very nice ,I enjoy Sissel much more. Powerful voices were developed before microphones, and purity was lost.
Try the Kirsten Flagstad version - she was a Wagnerian soprano with a lyric voice. I grew up listening to her sing this. Sissel’s version is excellent as well.
Here are some of the words........ Winter is over, the snow melts away Sweet Spring comes with gladness. Sunshine falls warm on the young hawthorn spray; I walk with my sadness. Waters once frozen are flowing to the sea, The rivers are roaring. All that I love for the last time comes to me, My dear larks are soaring. Though I must pass yet the clear voice of a bird Welcomes a newcomer. He will rejoice in the songs that I have heard Of sunlight and summer.
Sisselfan, It's impossible to find words to describe the magic flowing out out of her voice. With her own style and tune, Sissel may sing in any voice and will always be captivating and fascinating. Pleased the most, and, naturally, thankfull for remebering me when you uploaded this master piece. Your friend, Jacques
Once more I got to behold winter Fleeing before the spring; Hackberry with trees covered by blossoms, I once more saw blooming. Once more I got to behold the ice Flowing from land, The snow softening, and waterfall into river Buzzing and bursting. The green grass I once again got To behold with blooms. Still I heard the spring fowl sing, To sun and to summer.
Once more I received the blessing, Of hearing the cuckoo. Once more I wandered the field Where they drove the plow. Once more I beheld and was warmed By the wind and the meadow; To behold the earth like with longing chest, Sighing in bed. Spring cloud drifting there to and fro, And cloud banks billowing. Then thunder struck from the clouds, And cracked and rolled.
I had yet to see heat shimmers Dance upon the hills. Butterflies fluttering and flying off Where blooms stood gathered. All this spring life I once more beheld, Which later I lost. But I am melancholy and ask myself must: Might it be the last? Let It so be: I had much beauty, To enjoy in life. More I received than I had deserved, And all things must end.
Sometime I will in the springtime haze, Which sates my eye. Sometime I there will find me a home, And swim and bathe. Everything that the spring greeted me with, and the bloom I plucked. I thought It was the spirits of the forefathers, That danced and sighed. Therefore I found between birches and bark, A riddle in spring. Therefore the sound from the flute I carved, Seemed to be weeping.
@furmitten publicity engine? Well, I don't really know what you're talking about, because I was just surfing on RUclips to find different versions of one of my favorite compositions and I found this version. I didn't even know who Sissel was. I can say that this is the best performance I've ever heard. It goes right through my soul an makes me cry of joy. This is all what music is about and I don't care about theoretical stuff about some 'nuances, shading and power'. Sorry.
@achantus1 Most Southeast-Norwegians are proud that we have different "languages" here in Norway. The part some "hate" is the fact that we are tought both in school. It is difficult to learn two such similar languages for many people. But, yes, she is singing in Nynorsk, a constructed language based on different Norwegian dialects, and not Bokmål, wich is mostly based on Danish, and that is the language we mostly use in Southeast-Norway. No one really speaks either one of them.
@furmitten Interesting that a page or two down in these comments an actual operatic tenor thinks she has, "Such a lovely voice … . I like her very much. She touches my soul...Bravooo!!!!". Other ignorant people like Placido Domingo and Bryn Terfel have made similar comments during their multiple performances with her. But now, thankfully, we have you to set us straight … Bravo!!!
all good singers can do different things with their voice -alter it to suit the occasion. Here is a perfect example: her voice seems to come from outside of her, a suspended tone somewhere above her.
Ella es muy hermosa y juvenil, e interpreta con sentimiento , pero... hay que escucharla con los ojos cerrados....Su belleza y el brillar de sus ojos están tan lejos de lo que expresa la letra de Varen ¡¡ Erial80
I found the Norwegian to be a breeze when I had someone sound it out for me and tell me what the different characters sounded like. If you can find the sheet music, I suggest trying that and writing the pronunciations in.
Did you listen to Kirsten Flagstad? There are two versions on the net, the one of the younger Kirsten Flagstad is just unbelievable. I could't find anything more touching, and its not instead of skill but because of it. Just my personal opinion.
She has a lovely light-lyric voice and very nice technique, with relatively little vibrato, reminiscent of Julianne Baird in her musical style. I do agree with the earlier poster who said that the performance sounded too cheerful, given the material; plangence and melancholy do not seem to come easily to her.
Check out fantastic video by Sissel ruclips.net/video/Q8ZHvw4Lfdw/видео.html
If you didn't cry after listening to this, you've either got a stone heart or a glass eye. She's a fabulous singer--perfect diction, breath control, phrasing--and HEART. Norway should be very proud of her--and this beautiful work that touches hearts.
I just regret for lost so many years before know Sissel, her divine voice and her amazing beauty.
Her voice is crystal clear and beautiful to hear. I first heard this when I was a boy in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York. It was the closing theme to the live TV show I Remember Mama, starring Peggy Wood. Decades later, I saw the movie with Irene Dunne and fell in love again.
But, it was several decades before I learned that Våren was written by Edvard Grieg! Now, I play it on my own instruments (Mark VI Tenor sax, Kessler Model 2 Bass Clarinet, and Buffet-Crampon R-13 Clarinet. It's beautiful no matter which instrument is used. Whenever a fellow musician hears me "warm up" with Våren, I get compliments.
Våren av Grieg och sjungen av Sissel är för mig friskhet och förväntan😍
Such a lovely voice; this is a soprano with the talent and look for been one of the most important ones!!!.I like her very much. She touches my soul...Bravooo!!!!
My Most Favorite Singer ever!
Sissel singing this divine song by Grieg let us feel in the paradise. Superb.
Edvard Grieg would undoubtedly be ecstatic at the stunning performance of his music.The purity of her golden voice is heightened only by the intense expressiveness and sensitivity to the music.
Du hast ja so Recht - Gruß aus Deutschland, Klaus
Grieg is certainly smiling from the heaven
Oh ja, ein SUPER Trio - Sissel , Grieg und die Norwegische Landschaft
Wonderful Grieg, and Sissel.......wonderful interpretation.....her expression helps a lot to enjoy the song. when she smiles.......it comes the spring too
I was one told that Grieg wrote this song ro mourn a friend who died very young.
What a beautful tribute!
Her voice is LOVELY!!
SISSEL'S VOICE IS PERFECT FOR GRIEG'S MUSIC...KIND OF MOURNFUL, YET VERY VERY SWEET.I FIRST HEARD HER SING AT THE OPENING OF THE WINTER GAMES IN L(?). I WONDERED...'WHO IS THIS BEAUTIFUL SINGER?' LATER A NORWEGIAN FRIEND TOLD ME AND I THOUGHT THAT THE WORLD SHOULD HEAR HER.
Your beautiful voice moves me and I cannot help listening to most of your songs. God bless you, Sissel
I love this.
She's the best singer in the world.
Восхитительно: и голос, и музыкальное сопровождение! 🌅
Lovely Sissel!!!
I love this song.
really really beautiful ✨✨✨
My heart flows up to the ligth of her singing, ...oh what little is left and how much still for all!!!. But I am a drain glass, ready to stop filling up. Thanks to Sissel for giving me joy now...when most needed!!!
Wonderful Grieg, and Sissel.......wonderful interpretation.....her expression helps a lot to enjoy the song.
I love as sings Sissel and his voice as a whole with this beautiful music.******
A big hug
Antonio
I really love how deliberate the pianist is with the presses for some reason.
Grieg sung by Sissel.... enchanting beyong words!
Who are these two that don't like this video. Sissel's voice is beautiful and rich.
Beautiful music sung by a wonderful singer!
Learnt this in English,... at a very good primary school(Dulwich Hamlet in the 1960's).....Very beautiful musically & lyrics.....
HEAVEN SENT !! BOTH, GRIEG AND SISSEL !!
One of the most beautiful voices of the modern day. I have learned a lot from listening to her.
Wonderful. Both the music and the voice are heaven sent.
This is amazing! I think l can listen to it all day long..
The best singer in the world.
When she sings looking at the camera, she hypnotizes me, with her angel voice and celestial beauty ! Beautiful, very beautiful! Tks, Sisselfan...as I would like to be in Bergen, tomorrow, for listen in the room Grieg. but that is impossible. Again thank you, and also for the translation! Walter (Brazil)
Thanks for uploading this - I'm currently learning this song myself and trying to get my tongue around the Norwegian isn't easy but it's great to hear someone with such clear diction! Great help, thanks! :)
This is so exceptional......I find it hauntingly beautiful and calming! 😊
SISSEL...No one ever like her and never will be!!!
Je to andělský hlas- Sissel je pro Griegovy písně momentálně nejlepší interpretkou- dokáže vyjádřit náladu písní .... nádhera ! Díky
Beautiful!Beautiful!Beautiful!
As Always Everything What Is From Sissel!
I didn't know about her. She's fantastic. Really the best version.
This is what I called class real class beautiful I love to singing this nothing else❤❤❤😊
Sissel is often criticized by armchair opera "experts" for not displaying enough emotion when singing classical songs. These people don't know how to listen or watch. Her ability to express emotion through tonality is incredible and together with the expressiveness of her face, she communicates the emotion of her songs more clearly than any "real" opera singer I have ever heard.
This well-produced video, subtitles provided, brings to a world-wide audience a beautiful singer, a beautiful language and beautiful music. - John Austin, Australia
@ketillflatnefur
the reason she's smiling so much is because she's doing what most stage singers call "flirting with the audience". it's one of the most important things about singing on the stage, dragging everybody in the hall into your performance. which is also why she never really rests her eyes on one set thing (except when she's looking straight at the camera), she keeps moving her line of sight.
it's one of the first things most singing teachers teach you, actually.
Překrásná Griegova píseň a v interpretaci Sissel - zkrátka úžasná!!!
Touchingly beautiful - thankyou!
Breathtaking song and singing!
Sissel just adds to the beauty of Greigs Last Spring.
I love Sissel's sweet pure voice - so unaffected and innocent sounding. The other recording I love is Alison Trainer.
Men jag går over angerna
I love Sissel’s classical side❣️
Hogy lehet valaki ilyen szep es erös ? Szeretlek !!
tears in my eyes...
Un detalle que llama la atención en Sissel es la pureza de su voz,sin afeites,sin modulaciones extra,directa, y sin esfuerzo alguno .
Pese a que su voz es pura y cristalina mantiene un volumen adecuado sin que se le note tensión en el aparato fonador.
No en vano Sissel se encuentra desde hace mas de una década en los principales escenarios deleitándonos con su voz.
Really beautiful translation. Great poetry!
I took furmitten's advice, and listened to Karita Mattila version. While very nice ,I enjoy Sissel much more. Powerful voices were developed before microphones, and purity was lost.
Try the Kirsten Flagstad version - she was a Wagnerian soprano with a lyric voice. I grew up listening to her sing this. Sissel’s version is excellent as well.
Here are some of the words........
Winter is over, the snow melts away
Sweet Spring comes with gladness.
Sunshine falls warm on the young hawthorn spray;
I walk with my sadness.
Waters once frozen are flowing to the sea,
The rivers are roaring.
All that I love for the last time comes to me,
My dear larks are soaring.
Though I must pass yet the clear voice of a bird
Welcomes a newcomer.
He will rejoice in the songs that I have heard
Of sunlight and summer.
Sissel is just the best.
Voice beautiful
Saw her live in Gothenburg 02/11. She was awesome!
The voice of an angel at 33.
haunting is the word for it. tusen tak.
Maravillosa soprano!
Sisselfan,
It's impossible to find words to describe the magic flowing out out of her voice. With her own style and tune, Sissel may sing in any voice and will always be captivating and fascinating. Pleased the most, and, naturally, thankfull for remebering me when you uploaded this master piece.
Your friend,
Jacques
Once more I got to behold winter
Fleeing before the spring;
Hackberry with trees covered by blossoms,
I once more saw blooming.
Once more I got to behold the ice
Flowing from land,
The snow softening, and waterfall into river
Buzzing and bursting.
The green grass I once again got
To behold with blooms.
Still I heard the spring fowl sing,
To sun and to summer.
Once more I received the blessing,
Of hearing the cuckoo.
Once more I wandered the field
Where they drove the plow.
Once more I beheld and was warmed
By the wind and the meadow;
To behold the earth like with longing chest,
Sighing in bed.
Spring cloud drifting there to and fro,
And cloud banks billowing.
Then thunder struck from the clouds,
And cracked and rolled.
I had yet to see heat shimmers
Dance upon the hills.
Butterflies fluttering and flying off
Where blooms stood gathered.
All this spring life I once more beheld,
Which later I lost.
But I am melancholy and ask myself must:
Might it be the last?
Let It so be: I had much beauty,
To enjoy in life.
More I received than I had deserved,
And all things must end.
Sometime I will in the springtime haze,
Which sates my eye.
Sometime I there will find me a home,
And swim and bathe.
Everything that the spring greeted me with,
and the bloom I plucked.
I thought It was the spirits of the forefathers,
That danced and sighed.
Therefore I found between birches and bark,
A riddle in spring.
Therefore the sound from the flute I carved,
Seemed to be weeping.
Unbelievably moving.
Her best yet.
So nice I love it. ❤❤❤❤
gracias por mandarme este vidio, que voz y que velleza,nunca había escuchado música de ella hasta muy recientemente.
@furmitten publicity engine? Well, I don't really know what you're talking about, because I was just surfing on RUclips to find different versions of one of my favorite compositions and I found this version. I didn't even know who Sissel was. I can say that this is the best performance I've ever heard. It goes right through my soul an makes me cry of joy. This is all what music is about and I don't care about theoretical stuff about some 'nuances, shading and power'. Sorry.
聽了起雞皮疙瘩,很能沉浸於文藝氣息中 !
Additionally, she makes me proud to be of Norwegian heritage.
Sissel is still the best!
Fantastic!
Very Beautiful I really enjoy!
This was a duet in Janette MacDonalds penultimate film in 1948 which she sand with Jane Powell
Sang
Lovely ❤❤❤
At 3:18 you can just go flying to heaven. Amazing!!!
@achantus1 Most Southeast-Norwegians are proud that we have different "languages" here in Norway. The part some "hate" is the fact that we are tought both in school. It is difficult to learn two such similar languages for many people.
But, yes, she is singing in Nynorsk, a constructed language based on different Norwegian dialects, and not Bokmål, wich is mostly based on Danish, and that is the language we mostly use in Southeast-Norway. No one really speaks either one of them.
Beautiful song, I love the music by Grieg, I love this song so much and Sissel is amazing.
5 stars*
Love Carina XXX
@xSolveEtCoagulax A beautiful description of the most beautiful vocalist ever.
Dronning Sissel, Queen of Norwegian sound.
@furmitten Interesting that a page or two down in these comments an actual operatic tenor thinks she has, "Such a lovely voice … . I like her very much. She touches my soul...Bravooo!!!!". Other ignorant people like Placido Domingo and Bryn Terfel have made similar comments during their multiple performances with her. But now, thankfully, we have you to set us straight … Bravo!!!
Her voice.
WHAT A WOMAN!!!
Glad 17:e maj!
nice..
Celý život miluji písně E. Griega a v tomto provedení - úžasné!!
Волшебный голос.
Nomenclature fails when trying to express the beauty of this creation.
all good singers can do different things with their voice -alter it to suit the occasion. Here is a perfect example: her voice seems to come from outside of her, a suspended tone somewhere above her.
I think Grieg should be very proud!
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Syssel er saa god synger at man kan ikke ligne henne med noen annen.
Helt riktig. En vakker kvinne med en vakker stemme.
Min fina sötnos jag älskar dig.🥰😍🤩😘😋😋😋😋
Glenmed-My pleasure. I knew that you would love it. I try to send you only IMHO the best.
CanadaPisces-My pleasure my friend James.
I agree--there's different ways to interpret songs and make them real.
Ella es muy hermosa y juvenil, e interpreta con sentimiento , pero... hay que escucharla con los ojos cerrados....Su belleza y el brillar de sus ojos están tan lejos de lo que expresa la letra de Varen ¡¡
Erial80
I found the Norwegian to be a breeze when I had someone sound it out for me and tell me what the different characters sounded like. If you can find the sheet music, I suggest trying that and writing the pronunciations in.
Did you listen to Kirsten Flagstad? There are two versions on the net, the one of the younger Kirsten Flagstad is just unbelievable. I could't find anything more touching, and its not instead of skill but because of it. Just my personal opinion.
Yes.1948 version
Sissel voice is absolutelly unparalleled bright, crystalclear, heavenly
4:18 That Piano though.
Yes.
She has a lovely light-lyric voice and very nice technique, with relatively little vibrato, reminiscent of Julianne Baird in her musical style. I do agree with the earlier poster who said that the performance sounded too cheerful, given the material; plangence and melancholy do not seem to come easily to her.