Sigvart Dagsland - Hymns

The greatest hymns of all time

Featuring Norway’s most expressive male voice

Sigvart Dagsland has recorded his second album of hymns, simply called Hymns. He has been joined by British blues guitar player Snowy White (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters) and legendary trumpet player Lew Soloff from New York (Blood Sweat and Tears), who join with organist and piano player Iver Kleive to accompany him as he sings the most popular international hymns of all time. The album was recorded in two churches in the New York and New Jersey area, featuring a powerful Romantic church organ from 1928, built in Princeton University Chapel by Ernest M. Skinner, in addition to a Hammond B3 and a grand piano.

Nobody sings hymns as Sigvart Dagsland does. He is a unique interpreter of hymns as special experiences distilled with belief, expressing the inexpressible tension between closeness, vulnerability and the almighty.

These hymns are generally performed in the language they were written in. We hear "How great Thou art", "Abide with me", "Nearer my God to Thee" and "Amazing Grace".

The record was produced by Erik Hillestad, while Iver Kleive is responsible for most of the arrangements.

These are the songs:
Nearer my God, to Thee
Abide with me
How great Thou art
O Jesus, You who fill to overflowing
Amazing Grace
Be Thou with Them
What a Friend we have in Jesus
Entrust Thy Ways
When you are here
Be now my vision
The Water is Wide
Thine be the glory

Other releases with Sigvart Dagsland:
1985 Joker FXCD 55
1987 De Umulige (The impossible ones) FXCD 67
1988 Seculum Seculi FXCD 77
1990 Alt eg såg (Everything I saw) FXCD 99
1991 Sigvarts beste ballader(Sigvart’s Best ballads) FXCD 104
1992 Bedre enn stillhet (Better than silence) FXCD 119
1994 Stup (Dive) FXCD 141
1995 Det er makt i de foldede hender(Power of Prayer) FXCD 157
1996 Laiv (Live) FXCD 173
2001 Sigvarts favoritter(Sigvart’s favourites) FXCD 244
2007 Forandring (Change ) FXCD 323