Awake, O North Wind

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Label
Footprint Records
Release Date
May 19, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GJEILO KVERNO PEDERSEN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Stureborg
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 19, 2017
    • UPC
      7320470215258
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FRCD 088
    • LABEL
      Footprint Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Ingångstrall

      Composer: Josefine Mindus

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    2. Credo

      Composer: Einojuhani Rautavaara

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    3. Sanger om karlek (Songs of Love): No. 1. Let Him Kiss Me

      Composer: Sven-David Sandström

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    4. 3 Korvisor till dikter av J.P. Jacobsen: No. 2. I seraillets have (In the Seraglio Garden)

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    5. Stjärntändningen (The Stars Appearing)

      Composer: Oskar Lindberg

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    6. Bruremarsj

      Composer: Jan Magne Førde

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    7. Sanger om karlek (Songs of Love): No. 2. Until the Daybreak

      Composer: Sven-David Sandström

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    8. Psalm 100, "Jubilate Deo"

      Composer: Fredrik Sixten

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    9. O crux, Op. 79

      Composer: Knut Nystedt

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    10. Ave Maris Stella

      Composer: Trond Kverno

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    11. Sanger om karlek (Songs of Love): No. 3. Awake, o North Wind

      Composer: Sven-David Sandström

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    12. Pilarna (The willows)

      Composer: Ake Malmfors

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    13. Northern Lights, "Pulchra es, amica mea"

      Composer: Ola Gjeilo

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    14. Sanger om karlek (Songs of Love): No. 4. His Left Hand

      Composer: Sven-David Sandström

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    15. När natten skänker frid

      Composer: Karin Rehnqvist

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    16. 3 Korvisor till dikter av J.P. Jacobsen: No. 1. September, "Alle de voksende Skygger"

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    17. Snabbt jagar stormen våra år

      Composer: Sven-Eric Johansson

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg

    18. Bruremarsj fra Valsøyfjord (arr. G. Pedersen and H. Sommerro for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Stockholms Musikgymnasium Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Helene Stureborg


Footprint is pleased to release a new recording from one of the most talented youth ensembles in Sweden, the Chamber Choir of the Stockholm Music Gymnasium. The school’s chamber choir is made up of 40 of the school’s hundreds of vocal specialists, and is led by Helene Stureborg, a sometime pupil of Eric Ericsson and Gustav Sjökvist. Awake O North Wind is a heartfelt and atmospheric journey through some of the finest unaccompanied Swedish and Norwegian choral works of the last two centuries, with an emphasis on music by living composers. The miniature masterpieces that are Sven-David Sansdström’s Four Songs of Love form the backbone of the programme and are spread among works by Wilhelm Stenhammar, Knut Nystedt, Trond Kverno, Karin Rehnqvist and others, with spine-tingling arrangements of Swedish and Norwegian folk songs included too. The Stockholm Music Gymnasium Chamber Choir has recorded for film soundtracks and appeared with artists including Andrea Bocelli. The ensemble’s full, rounded sound and intense clarity at high registers is revealed fully on its new recording, whose programme of repertoire members of the ensemble shaped under Stureborg’s guidance. ‘These young musicians have so much to give’, says the conductor. ‘They take responsibility, they are so focussed and they want so much from the music. I love to work with them!’ Awake O North Wind is a snapshot of both human awakening and burgeoning talent, with all the excitement inherent in both.