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  Arve Møen Bergset    (b. 1972) Folk/Traditional Soloist 
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Arve Møen Bergset Arve Moen Bergset was born in 1972. As a five-year-old his family settled in Vinje in Telemark, a county with strong traditions concerning Norwegian traditional music. He has learned from many sources, the most important is Sondre Bratland who he began taking singing lessons from at the age of eight.

Arve Moen Bergset had his kveding (Norwegian traditional folk singing) debut during the broadcasted national gramophone prize show in 1987. One year later he won the Norwegian Grammy award in the category of traditional music for the record "Arvesølv". With the group "Bukkene Bruse" (the Billy Goats Gruff), Bergset was selected to be an OG musician, related to the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway. This group is still going and have made three recordings.

He has as a violinist played with, among others, Oslo and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1990 he won the first price in a national competition for young string players, and received one year later the second soloist compotition of the Norwegian Youth Orchestra.

Bergset studied violin with, among others, Lars Anders Tomter and Leif Jørgensen. In 1995 he received a "Higher diploma of chamber music with solo instrument included" at the Norwegian State Academy of Music. As a traditional folk singer and violinist he has won several prices and participated in many TV -and Radio productions. Bergset is one of the artistic leaders of "Vinterfestspill I Bergstaden", a music festival which appears once a year in Røros in Norway.
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Arve Møen Bergset - Arve Sølv
Arve Sølv (Kirkelig Kulturverksted FXCD 68, CD) March 1987
Featuring Arve Møen Bergset  
This 35 min. CD of "Family Silver" should be in the collection of every admirer of the vocal art and in particular those interested in the capabilities of the boy's voice. Here we have a 14-year-old's brilliant, rich, vibrant voice displaying easy production, exemplary diction, excellent legato phrasing, perfect intonation and a born musician's total mastery of his material. The folksongs cover a wide range of moods and the CD insert includes full texts of the original Norwegian (but no translations - the summaries below aim only to give the general sense). (BJP)
  1.   Folkesongen (The Folk Song)   Let man & maid sing of olden times & dream of a homely life, with flowers in the fields & apples in the trees.
  2.   Liti Kjersti (Little Kirsty)   Little Kirsty, a beautiful maid, rode north to the mountains where there was singing & dancing. "Will you follow me to my mountain home?" said the Mountain King. "No, I cannot, for my mother sits at home waiting for me." "All that you desire you will get from me!" And to her mother she never more would come. Sometimes in the wind & the rain is heard a sighing from deep chasms in the northern mountains where there is singing & dancing.
  3.   Høyr, kor kyrkjeklokka lokkar (Hark, the church bells)   Hark, over hill & water the bells are calling all the flock to church, proclaiming Sunday's holy peace, taking our sorrows away.
  4.   Gamle Gullbrand (Old Gullbrand)   Sullen old Gullbrand thinks only of himself, but old Gonil cooks some excellent porridge and when we have eaten we can lay down tired in a warm bed of straw.
  5.   Pa Dovrefjell (On Dovrefell)   Queen Ingeborg's twelve brothers were heroes without equal, who could control the weather & tides, swim like a fish, stand on waves, play a golden harp to which all must dance, blow a horn so that all hearing it feared, capture a dragon . . . This say I and it is true: their like is not found in Norway's land.
  6.   Mitt hjerte alltid vanker (My heart always wanders)   Xmas carol. My heart always wanders to where Jesus was born, where my longing finds its home.
  7.   Pal sine hønur (Paul's hens)   Paul let the hens run over the hillside when the fox was abroad and was afraid to go home to his family's farm.
  8.   Eg var liten ((When) I was little)   Sitting by the open cottage fire on her stool Grandma told me stories of animals, trolls & water-sprites, enchanted castles, maidens & strong,lively boys who struck trolls as if scything hay. She was so kind of heart when I was good.
  9.   Guro rid til ottesong (Guro Rode to Matins)   Guro rode to matins through the dark valley, under moon & stars. She took holy water to protect herself from evil. Tor waited for her under the lime tree & took her in his arms; before parting they exchanged promises of fidelity.
10.   Haslebuskane (Hazel bushes or a name)   Haselbuskane, dance well with the young folk, so agreeable, so light of foot.
11.   Margjit Hjukse (Margaret Hjukse)   Long ago proud Margaret bore the Mountain King three children; then she heard Bøherad's church bell ring and longed to visit her parents' home again. Her happy father met her outside and led her to her mother's chair. But the Mountain King came after her: "Are you not coming home to your children tonight?" "Farewell now to all in my house; now I shall never see you more." On her grey horse she shed more tears than the horse had hairs.
12.   Eg er framand (I am a stranger)   I am a pilgrim who will stay only one night here. I seek the City of God where sorrow & death are no more. Dear Lord, lead me to Heaven's shore.
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Arve Møen Bergset - Litle Fuglen
Litle Fuglen (Buen Kulturverkstad BKMC 8, Cassette) 1986
Featuring Arve Møen Bergset  
  1.   Folkesongen  
  2.   Litle fuglen  
  3.   Jeg råde vil alle  
  4.   Helligånd O Himmellue  
  5.   Idag kjemdet bod  
  6.   Syng i stille morgonstunder  
  7.   Ingen er så trygg på ferda  
  8.   Den bortkomne sauen  
  9.   Eg er ein gjest i verda  
10.   Kven kan seia ut den gleda  
11.   Eg såg ein Kristi pilgrim  
12.   Det er så vent i Grungedal, gamalstev  
13.   Kjetta sette upp veven sin  
14.   Hoss kom du ivi bekkjen  
15.   Stevrekkje  
16.   Gaute Navardskard, slåttestev  
17.   Rotnheims-Knut, slåttestev  
18.   Stevrekkje 2  
19.   Religiøst stev.  
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