Utwory na płycie:

• Stenhammar - Three Choral Songs (1890) - Havde jeg o havde jeg en datters0n o ja! (Had I O had I a Daughters Son O yea!).
• Stenhammar - Three Choral Songs (1890) - Havde jeg o havde jeg en datters0n o ja! (Had I O had I a Daughters Son O yea!).
• Williams - The Lark Ascending (1914 revised 1920) * (Excerpt)

Ralph Vaughan Williams:
Rest
Three Shakespeare Songs
The Lark Ascending

Judith Bingham/Sir Charles Villiers Stanford:
The Drowned Lovers

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford:
The Blue Bird, Op. 119 No. 3

Wilhelm Stenhammar:
Three Choral Songs

Hugo Alfén:
Uti var hage (In Our Meadow)
Limu, limu, lima - Herd Song from Älvdalen

David Wikander:
Kung Liljekonvalje (King Lily of the Valley)

Gustav Mahler:
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Ola Gjeilo:
Serenity (O magnum mysterium)

The Swedish Chamber Choir makes its debut on Chandos with this fascinating programme of works for choir, choir and solo voice, and for choir and violin. The founder and conductor, Simon Phipps, leads the choir in unaccompanied works by Swedish and British composers. Maria Forsström joins them in one of Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’, in a sixteen-part arrangement by Clytus Gottwald, and in Judith Bingham’s The Drowned Lovers, a stark companion piece to Stanford’s The Blue Bird. The violinist Jennifer Pike joins the Choir in Ola Gjeilo’s stunning Serenity (a setting of O magnum mysterium) and Paul Drayton’s outstanding 2018 arrangement of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, for violin and chamber choir. Recorded in Surround Sound.

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Recording: Arstads Kyrka, Heberg, Sweden; 4 and 5 May & 15 and 16 June 2019. Jennifer Pike plays a fine Guarneri del Gesu lent by Beare’s International Violin Society.