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Modern Swedish masterworks for choir
The Swedish Chamber Choir
Simon Phipps

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200.00kr

  • 01. Åke Almfors - Månsken
  • 02. Ingvar Lindholm Fyra körer (1953) - Tidens pelare
  • 03. Ingvar Lindholm Fyra körer (1953) - Havet
  • 04. Ingvar Lindholm Fyra körer (1953) - Uppbrott
  • 05. Ingvar Lindholm Fyra körer (1953) - Efteråt
  • 06. Sven-Erik Bäck - Som hjorten törstar (1973)
  • 07. Sven-David Sandström / Henry Purrcell - Hear my Prayer, O Lord (1986)
  • 08. Britta Byström - Lux aeterna (2001)
  • 09-12 Sven-David Sandström - Four Songs of Love (2008)
  • 09. Let Him Kiss Me
  • 10. Until the Daybreak
  • 11. Awake, O North Wind
  • 12. His Left Hand
  • 13. Karin Rehqvist - Till ängeln med de brinnande händerna (2000)
  • 14. Lars-Erik Larsson - Ingen fågel flyger för högt (1969)
  • 15. Jan Sandström / Michael Praetorius - Det är en ros utsprungen (1999)
  • 16. Lars Johan Werle - Orpheus (1990)
  • 17. Nils Lindberg - Shall I Compare Thee (1989)
  • 18. Håkan Parkman - Titania (1996)
  • 19. Susanne Rosenberg - Pust (2000)
  • 20. Jan Sandström - Biegga luohte (2002)
  • 21. Karin Rehqvist - I himmelen (1998)

Description

This CD takes the listener on an exciting trip through the repertoire created during the “Swedish choir miracle”. Great modernists like Lidholm and Sven-David Sandström are of course represented and they are take turns with more relaxed or folk-orientated works by Malmberg, Larsson, Parkman and others. One important novelty is Karin Rehnqvist’s masterly “Till ängeln med brinnande händer” for choir, soloists and oboe. Tradition and modernity also meet in Jan Sandström’s ”Biegga luohte” and Karin Rehnqvist’s ”I himmelen”. It’s a CD that everyone can enjoy.

During the autumn of 2011, the Swedish Chamber Choir has won both the European Grand Prix at the prestigious Tolosa festival in Spain and EBU’s choir competition “Let the Peoples Sing”. As participants in élite competitions, it has thus become Sweden’s most successful choir hitherto.