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Like to the Lark / Phipps, Swedish Chamber Choir
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Like to the Lark / Phipps, Swedish Chamber Choir

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Composer
GJEILO WILLIAMS MAHLER GOTT
Artist
Pike, Maria Forsstrom, Phipps
Format
SACD
Label
Chandos
Released
Nov 01, 2019
Catalog #
CHSA 5255
UPC
095115525524

About

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

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 Rest 04:12
    Track
    1
    Title
    Rest
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  2. 2 No. 1. Full Fathom Five 03:29
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 1. Full Fathom Five
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  3. 3 No. 2. The Cloud-capp'd Towers 02:29
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 2. The Cloud-capp'd Towers
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  4. 4 No. 3. Over Hill, Over Dale 01:00
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 3. Over Hill, Over Dale
    Duration
    01:00
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  5. 5 The Lark Ascending (arr. P. Drayton for violin and mixed choir) 15:29
    Track
    5
    Title
    The Lark Ascending (arr. P. Drayton for violin and mixed choir)
    Duration
    15:29
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Performer
    Jennifer Pike
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  6. 6 The Drowned Lovers 05:33
    Track
    6
    Title
    The Drowned Lovers
    Duration
    05:33
    Composer
    Judith Bingham
    Performer
    Maria Forsström
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  7. 7 8 Partsongs, Op. 119: No. 3. The blue bird 03:44
    Track
    7
    Title
    8 Partsongs, Op. 119: No. 3. The blue bird
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  8. 8 No. 1. September 02:19
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 1. September
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  9. 9 No. 2. Seraillets Have (In the Seraglio's Garden) 02:49
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 2. Seraillets Have (In the Seraglio's Garden)
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  10. 10 No. 3. Havde jeg, o havde jeg en dattersøn, o ja! (Had I, O had I a Daughter's Son, O yea!) 01:30
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 3. Havde jeg, o havde jeg en dattersøn, o ja! (Had I, O had I a Daughter's Son, O yea!)
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  11. 11 Uti vår hage (In Our Meadow) 02:34
    Track
    11
    Title
    Uti vår hage (In Our Meadow)
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    Hugo Alfvén
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  12. 12 Limu, limu, lima 01:26
    Track
    12
    Title
    Limu, limu, lima
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Hugo Alfvén
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  13. 13 Kung Liljekonvalje (King Lily of the Valley) 03:50
    Track
    13
    Title
    Kung Liljekonvalje (King Lily of the Valley)
    Duration
    03:50
    Composer
    David Wikander
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  14. 14 Rückert-Lieder: No. 5. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (arr. C. Gottwald for choir) 06:24
    Track
    14
    Title
    Rückert-Lieder: No. 5. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (arr. C. Gottwald for choir)
    Duration
    06:24
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Performer
    Maria Forsström
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps
  15. 15 Serenity (version for choir and violin) 06:37
    Track
    15
    Title
    Serenity (version for choir and violin)
    Duration
    06:37
    Composer
    Ola Gjeilo
    Performer
    Jennifer Pike
    Ensemble
    Swedish Chamber Choir
    Conductor
    Simon Phipps