Performer: Jennifer Pike, Maria Forsström, The Swedish Chamber Choir
Conductor: Simon Phipps
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Size: 0.98 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Vaughan Williams:
01.Rest
Three Shakespeare Songs
02.No. 1, Full Fathom Five
03.No. 2, The Cloud-Capp’d Towers
04.No. 3, Over Hill, Over Dale
05. The Lark Ascending
06. Bingham: The Drowned Lovers
07. Stanford: The Blue Bird, Op. 119 No. 3
Stenhammar:
Tre körvisor (Three Choral Ballads)
08. No. 1, September
09. No. 2, I Seraillets have
10. No. 3, Havde jeg, o havde jeg en dattersøn, o ja!
11. Alfvén: Uti vår hage (Text: Folk-song from Gotland)
12. Hugo Alfén: Limu, limu, lima
13. Wikander: Kung Liljekonvalje (text: Gustav Fröding)
14. Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)
15. Gjeilo: Serenity
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.