Ola Gjeilo

Ola Gjeilo – Dreamweaver (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:52 minutes | 1009 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

In the new Decca Classics album built around two new multi-movement works titled The Road and Dreamweaver, Ola pays homage to his home country of Norway. The first single release from the album features the opening movement of Dreamweaver, with the full album released on 29th September.

The album features Ola on piano, the Choir of Royal Holloway and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rupert Gough. Guest soprano soloist is Grace Davidson.

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Ola Gjeilo – Stone Rose (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:32 minutes | 763 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2L (Lindberg Lyd)

This reflective, tuneful album is a collection of beautiful piano music written and performed by Ola Gjeilo. His music is a blend of jazz, classical and popular music influences, married in a unique and passionate style. The evocative melodies and harmonies of Stone Rose are sure to captivate listeners from the first hearing. Many of the tracks are expressions of Ola’s deep love for New York City, where he lives and maintains his highly successful career as a composer and pianist. Also featured on the album are elite American and Norwegian musicians Johannes Martens (cello), Tom Barber (flugelhorn) and David Coucheron (violin). Stone Rose is Ola’s first solo album, eagerly awaited across the world by audiences who have fallen in love with his expressive compositions and serenely beautiful playing.

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Ola Gjeilo – Piano Improvisations (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:01 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 2L (Lindberg Lyd)

Norwegian composer and pianist, Ola Gjeilo returns with his sophomore recording for 2L. Following the success of his 2007 release, Stone Rose, the acclaimed musician took a daring approach, composing and producing compositions of mainly free improvisations. Captured as a pristine hi-res download, the spontaneous album features layered pianos exploiting the surround sound potential!

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Ola Gjeilo – DAWN (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:39 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

Following on from Ola Gjeilo’s hugely-successful 2020 album ‘Night’, comes its natural successor ‘Dawn’. Gjeilo is best known for his compositions for choir and is one of the most frequently performed choral composers alive. That success has quickly translated to his work for solo piano. Raised listening to an eclectic mix of classical, jazz, pop and folk, and classically trained at The Julliard School and the Royal College of Music, Gjeilo’s distinctive soundworld is often is often described as cinematic and evocative, lush and harmonious. Improvisation has long been at the core of Gjeilo’s composition, and that is clearly heard in his meditative, soothing work for solo piano.
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Ola Gjeilo – Ola Gjeilo: Voices, Piano, Strings (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:31 minutes | 869 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

The young Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo (say YAY-lo) studied at the Juilliard School and has lived in New York and Italy. It’s not clear how much contemporary Christian music he might have absorbed while in the U.S. (New York is probably not a top market for the genre), but the sacred pieces here contain passages that evoke the so-called praise & worship music within that genre, with light choral polyphony over a backdrop of piano and/or strings. Other pieces lean more toward Philip Glass, and yet others toward a cappella music in John Rutter’s more artless vein. How you feel about these models may determine your reaction to Gjeilo, but there’s no doubt that he welds these semi-popular styles together skillfully: a piece may begin with a pop piano introduction (played by Gjeilo himself) and then recede to choral melodic material in a chantlike vein. Gjeilo’s music is economical and not pompous in the least. Perhaps the most effective piece here, and a place to start sampling, is Tundra (track nine), a setting of a text by Charles Anthony Silvestri depicting a slice of Norwegian landscape. The utter simplicity of Gjeilo’s music here matches the words, but there is nothing derivative about either of them. The performances by the top-notch choirs Tenebrae and Voces8 are superb. Those interested in choral music in crossover styles will find a distinctive take on that new tradition here. ~~ AllMusic Review by James Manheim

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Ola Gjeilo – Night (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:16 minutes | 817 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

Ola Gjeilo presents a stunning collection of brand new original works for solo piano, composed and performed by Gjeilo himself.

An intimate and meditative collection of peaceful piano music, inspired by Gjeilo’s experience of the Night in the place he calls home, New York City.

One single to be released every month from August, with the full album release to follow in January 2020.

These brand new short tracks are perfect for targeting easy-listening, calm, relaxing and sleep playlists.

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