Memnon – Sound Portraits of Ibsen Characters
Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer – vocals
Helge Lien – piano

1. Hedvig (The Wild Duck) 4:08
2. Ellida (The Lady from the Sea) 5.22
3. Hedda (Hedda Gabler) 4:48
4. Memnon I (Peer Gynt) 3:04
5. Anitra (Peer Gynt) 2:27
6. Peer and the Mountain King
(Peer Gynt) 6.24

7. Åse (Peer Gynt) 4:36
8. Memnon II (Peer Gynt) 1:22
9. Nora (A Doll’s House) 5:30

Recorded at Pettersens Kolonial Sound Studio, Hønefoss, Norway, 20–21 June 2012.
Mixed on 22 June 2012
Piano: C. Bechstein Grand, C-234
Mastered by Audun Strype at Strype Audio, Oslo, 5 July 2012
All music composed by Ruth W. Meyer and Helge Lien, except track 7 written by Edvard Grieg (Åse's Death from Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 23)

Cover photo: Helge Lien
Photo: Ina Strøm
Image editing: Helge Lien
Translation: Thilo Reinhard

Med ”Memnon” har Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer og Helge Lien på dialogisk vis fremelsket en musikk, som i seg selv rommer et stort spekter av melodisk og harmonisk bevegelse i spennet fra det tyste til det frapperende, samtidig som den frembærer sanserike sinnbilder av gripende gestalter og dramatiske tilstander.
Et verk som inviterer til opplevelse av både sjelen i musikken og musikken i sjelen.

With Memnon, Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer and Helge Lien have created a music engendered by dialogue and characterized by a broad range of melodic and harmonic movement that spans from silence to pandemonium, while at the same time giving rise to sensuously saturated depictions of poignant figures and dramatic states.

A work that invites you to experience the soul of the music and the music of the soul.

Bjarne Søltoft,
musikkritiker i magasinene Jazznytt (Norge) og Jazz Special (Danmark).
Oslo, 5. juli 2012.