Rikard Nordraak:
Sang for Norge (Ja, vi elsker)

Alfred Paulsen:
Naar fjordene blaaner

Friedrich August Reissiger:
Olav Trygvason

Halfdan Kjerulf:
Norges fjelde
Brudefarden i Hardanger

André Grétry:
Norges skaal

Valter Aamodt:
No reiser kvelden seg

Edvard Brain:
Serenade
Halling
Den elskedes narhet

Edvard Grieg:
Aftenstemning
Bjorneskytten
Sangerhilsen
Impromptu

Johan Halvorsen:
Endnu et streif kun af sol
Der skreg en fugl
Veslemoy

Paul Okkenhaug:
Voggevise
Jeg lagger mig sa trygt til ro
Vuggesang

Ludvig Irgens Jensen:
Pa jorden et sted

“Something Blue” is the second release in a CD series of Christiania Mannskor on the LAWO Classics label. It features titles alluding to the traditional English rhyme “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue […]”. The album contains familiar and unfamiliar works from the golden age of the Norwegian men’s choir movement and is accompanied by the sheet music booklet “Christiania Mannskors Blabok” (“The Blue Book of Christiania Mannskor”) published by Norsk Musikforlag. Besides well-known songs like the Norwegian National Anthem (“Ja, vi elsker …”), “Norges fjelde” (“Norway’s Mountains”), “Olav Trygvason” and “Naar fjordene blaaner” (“When the Fjords Become Blue”), there are less familiar gems by composers such as Valter Aamodt, Edvard Brain, Ludvig Irgens Jensen and Paul Okkenhaug. Many of the songs have been recorded for the first time with all the verses in their original versions. This is a reference recording that will contribute to the renewal and revitalization of an extremely important chapter of Norwegian musical history. The men’s choir movement and men’s choir literature is an established part of our common cultural heritage. This new recording by Christiania Mannskor will help to strengthen existing interest.