Inlägg 829Hilde Målsnes skrev:den 25 oktober 2009 kl. 08:49
Translated with google but corrected where the meaning was lost

This is probably a quite “sober” review from a well known music journalist in Bergen.

Translation of review from Bergens Tidende 10.10.2009
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pop
Alexander Rybak
Peer Gynt Salen
1 2 3 (4) 5 6 (rated 4 out of 6)
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Mixed candy from young girls idol
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Two and a half years ago Alexander Rybak was concertmaster in the Grieghall with the Young Symphony during Bergen International Festival. Friday evening the 23-year-old was back as popular musician with band and dancers.

But either someone have done a lousy job with marketing, or people have started to grow really tired. The concert was far from sold out. Although 8-900 people are not a bad audience with the competition in the concert market at the moment, it was fewer than expected, considering it was the first time in Bergen city since the victory in Eurovision Song Contest.

It is really a long time ago since I have seen such an age span among the audience at a pop concert. One could start to wonder if it was a Christmas party or a children’s show that was to take place in Grieghallen

There is no doubt that Rybak plays a lot of strings. Maybe a little too many. The concert was a strange mixture of Russian rocking songs, Nordic folk music, pop songs and easy classic. Rybak is a more than competent songwriter, but a red line binding it together is indeed not easy to find. All in all it falls together in some way, but just barely.
Much of the show is rescued by the man's Fiddling capacity and awkward stage charm.
Two dancers from the dance ensemble FRIKAR were also accompanying some of the numbers with jump, bounce and Hallingroll. Unfortunately, the scene in the Peer
Gynt Salen is so low that the public only could see the the highest jumps, and the
dancing seemed almost like an alibi in order to perform Fairytale most possible equal to the performance of Moscow.

Most of the debut album was of course played - Including Rolf Løvlands "Songs From A Secret Garden "and the hit" Funny Little World ". The old -Frankie Valli hit "Can’t take my eyes off you" came complete with the invitation of a girl from the audience on stage. But in this song Rybak also revealed large limitations. He is brilliant on the violin, but no Frank Sinatra, and it was almost purely bad towards the end of the song.

At the end of the concert the song everybody waited for came - Fairytale from Eurovision Song Contest. All the young girls in the audience were guaranteed happy. But I am in doubt if this is enough to build a career on.

EINAR Engelstad
ALEXANDER RYBAK offered MOST Songs from debut album.