Like to the Lark / Phipps, Swedish Chamber Choir

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
November 1, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GJEILO WILLIAMS MAHLER GOTT
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Swedish Chamber Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Pike, Maria Forsstrom, Phipps
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 01, 2019
    • UPC
      095115525524
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHSA 5255
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Rest

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    2. No. 1. Full Fathom Five

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    3. No. 2. The Cloud-capp'd Towers

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    4. No. 3. Over Hill, Over Dale

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    5. The Lark Ascending (arr. P. Drayton for violin and mixed choir)

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Performer: Jennifer Pike

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    6. The Drowned Lovers

      Composer: Judith Bingham

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Performer: Maria Forsström

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    7. 8 Partsongs, Op. 119: No. 3. The blue bird

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    8. No. 1. September

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    9. No. 2. Seraillets Have (In the Seraglio's Garden)

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    10. No. 3. Havde jeg, o havde jeg en dattersøn, o ja! (Had I, O had I a Daughter's Son, O yea!)

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    11. Uti vår hage (In Our Meadow)

      Composer: Hugo Alfvén

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    12. Limu, limu, lima

      Composer: Hugo Alfvén

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    13. Kung Liljekonvalje (King Lily of the Valley)

      Composer: David Wikander

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    14. Rückert-Lieder: No. 5. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (arr. C. Gottwald for choir)

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Performer: Maria Forsström

      Conductor: Simon Phipps

    15. Serenity (version for choir and violin)

      Composer: Ola Gjeilo

      Ensemble: Swedish Chamber Choir

      Performer: Jennifer Pike

      Conductor: Simon Phipps


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 Forsstrom joins them in one of Mahler’s Ruckert 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.

REVIEW:

This is a highly attractive and innovative programme of a cappella choral music which also makes use of solo instruments. The Swedish Chamber Choir, a beautifully honed sound with a versatile tessitura (and excellent English!), are directed by Simon Phipps, who brings a sympathetic set of interpretations to much of this inwardly melancholy repertoire.

– Gramophone