"Sol Levante" is part of Mari Samuelsen's album "Lys" released on Deutsche Grammophon on May 20th, 2022. "Lys" – Norwegian for “Light” – presents music by thirteen female composers, from Hildur Guðnadóttir to Hania Rani, combining specially commissioned works with new arrangements of existing pieces. The fourteen tracks are woven together to create a meditative, and energising playlist on this life-giving phenomenon. The Norwegian violinist’s eclectic programme moves through light’s infinitely subtle qualities to reveal a musical world of boundless shades of emotion and expression. Lys spans a breadth of styles that mirrors Mari’s openness to music from a multitude of genres and her wholehearted advocacy of new work. It embraces everything from a moving arrangement of the Beyoncé hit Halo to music by twelfth-century Benedictine philosopher, mystic and visionary Hildegard of Bingen; from the transcendent stillness of Hania Rani’s "La Luce" and the melancholy sounds of Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Bær to the laser-like precision of Anna Meredith’s "Midi" and Laura Masotto’s charming "Sol Levante".
“The way she chooses and plays her pieces, it’s clear that the music itself is at the heart of what she does ”– Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
Format: Digital, Vinyl, CD
Release date: May, 20, 2022
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
