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Toivo Skogheim, Runi Kristiansen, Kåre Nordstoga and Pål Bratås
Toneslepe over Hardangervidda (Lily, Norway)
$16.99

From the liner notes:
This ensemble consists of the rare combination of Baroque recorder and classical harp. They play music in a variety of genres ranging from lyrical folk music,Norwegian and Irish,to classical music,in particular Renaissance and Baroque. The musi- cians arrange most of the music themselves in addition to writ- ing their own material. They live in Kongsberg and Numedal. Runi Wold Kristiansen plays the classical harp and the Israeli David ’s harp. She studied music at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Academy of Music. Runi Wold Kristiansen works as a freelance musican and has participated on a number of recordings. She is the only harpist to have performed on Norway ’s oldest hunting vessel at Færder lighthouse. Runi is a lover of nature and the great outdoors.
“Awake,harp and lyre,I wish to arouse the dawn ”

Toivo Skogheim plays various types of recorders,horns and the occarina,in addition to other instruments. He has studied music, teaching,sport and outdoor activities. For 25 years the Hardan- ger mountain plateau has been his favourite haunt,summer and winter. He earns his living through music,tutoring and natural philopsophy at Naturlivskolen. com. He has previously released the CD ‘Svalande Tonar ’(Soothing sounds) with the group Nederlaget. He can be seen playing his pipes all the way from the sea to the mountains in winter.