BRUN, ANE & THE SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY O - Live At Berwaldhallen (Sealed) (2LP)

ANE BRUN has announced details of a new album, recorded with The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Hans Ek during a run of three sold out shows between 16-18 March, 2017. LIVE AT BERWALDHALLEN features sixteen tracks drawn from work across the singer and songwriter's fifteen years of studio recordings, and is released in CD and digital formats on August 10, 2018 by Brun's own Balloon Ranger Recordings. Brun's penchant for reinterpretation has been well chronicled, but LIVE AT BERWALDHALLEN is significantly more extravagant than previous concert recordings. It finds her performing in the grandiose surroundings of Stockholm's 1,300 capacity Berwardhallen (Berward Hall), in the Norwegian singer and songwriter's adopted home of Sweden. As well as three of her favourite regular accompanists - Martin Hederos (keyboards), Ola Hultgren (drums, percussion) and The Tiny's Ellekari Larsson (backing vocals) - she's also joined by the famed Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. They were matched - for the second time - by Sveriges Radio (Swedish Radio), and conducted by Hanks Ek, who's arranged and orchestrated music for films like Let the Right One In and the Oscar-winning In a Better World. The collection confirms Brun's broad musical horizons, from `Shape Of A Heart''s dramatic eastern flavours to the devastatingly passionate `The Light From One', via the delicate `To Let Myself Go', the playful `One' and a climactic `Undertow'. The album also includes covers of Beyonc? (`Halo'), Bj?rk (`Joga'), Ariel Ram?rez and F?lix Luna (`Alfonsina y el mar'), and Monteverdi (`Lamento Della Ninfa - Oh Love'), as well as her interpretation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 138: When My Love Swears She Is Full Of Truth.