Songs of Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake, Baroque Style

Giovanna Pessi, a Swiss harpist, and Susanna Wallumrød, a Norwegian pop vocalist, have teamed up on the album If Grief Could Wait.

The album has some original songs by Wallumrød that are really quite beautiful.

There are also cover versions by Henry Purcell, Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake.

All the songs on If Grief Could Wait are recorded in a baroque style.

In addition to the harp and vocals, there’s the viola da gamba and nyckelharpe.

One of the Leonard Cohen songs is “Who By Fire”.

One of the magical things about this record is that Susanna Wallumrød is a Norwegian pop singer and she’s been put into this classical baroque context.

You get a whole other dimension and that’s one of the things that makes this album so interesting.

This is music that just keeps giving you more and more beauty every time you listen to it.

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