Longing

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Label
Swedish Society
Release Date
January 24, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Valborg Aulin, Jorgen Jersild, Laura Netzel, Ludvig Norman, Agneta Skold, Peteris Vasks, Alvin Vikma
    • PERFORMER
      Erik Westberg Vokalensemble
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 24, 2025
    • UPC
      822359004405
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SCD1191
    • LABEL
      Swedish Society
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral
    Works ⌄

    1. Entflieht auf leichten Kähnen, Op. 2

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    2. Introduction

      Composer: Alvin Vikman

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Performer: Terese Antonsson

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    3. Autumn

      Composer: Alvin Vikman

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Performer: Terese Antonsson

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    4. Winter

      Composer: Alvin Vikman

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Performer: Terese Antonsson, Karl Söderström

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    5. Spring

      Composer: Alvin Vikman

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    6. Summer

      Composer: Alvin Vikman

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    7. The Fruit of Silence (version for choir and piano)

      Composer: Pēteris Vasks

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Performer: James Jenkins

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    8. No. 1. Min yndlingsdal (My Favourite Valley)

      Composer: Jørgen Jersild

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    9. No. 2. Natteregn (Night Rain)

      Composer: Jørgen Jersild

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    10. No. 3. Den Kedsom Vinter Gik Sin Gang (The Tedious Winter Went its Way)

      Composer: Jørgen Jersild

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    11. Där blåklinten slog en bro

      Composer: Agneta Sköld

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    12. No. 1. Min lycka varade så kort

      Composer: Valborg Aulin

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    13. No. 2. Lysen stjärnor

      Composer: Valborg Aulin

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    14. No. 1. Qvällen

      Composer: Valborg Aulin

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    15. No. 2. Slåttern

      Composer: Valborg Aulin

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    16. No. 3. Sången

      Composer: Valborg Aulin

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    17. Fjäriln och rosen, Op. 31, No. 1

      Composer: Laura Netzel

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    18. No. 1. Da drüben

      Composer: Ludvig Norman

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    19. No. 2. Vom berge

      Composer: Ludvig Norman

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    20. No. 3. Im Lenze

      Composer: Ludvig Norman

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    21. No. 4. Lied

      Composer: Ludvig Norman

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    22. No. 5. Köhlerglaube

      Composer: Ludvig Norman

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    23. No. 6. Die Linde

      Composer: Ludvig Norman

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg

    24. No. 7. Gebet

      Composer: Ludvig Norman

      Ensemble: Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble

      Conductor: Erik Westberg


The concepts of Romanticism and Late Romanticism steer our thoughts towards musical epochs, but the selection on this CD is based on a word art that encompasses romantic notions and experiences such as sorrow, joy, love, anxiety, despair, expectation, and longing that have existed in all times. This CD features, for the first time, recorded works by the young composer Alvin Vikman's five-movement piece The Japanese Seasons, Agneta Skold's Dar blaklinten slog en bro, and a bouquet of songs by composers active from the mid-1800s, Laura Netzell and Valborg Aulin. For over two hundred years, the interest in choral singing has inspired choral compositions of many different kinds. It has laid the foundation for the utilization of words and tones for the human voice, which has fostered cohesion, community, and musical innovation. Therefore, the compositions of Ludvig Norman, Jorgen Jersild, and Alvin Vikman show a continuity in humanity's need for words and tones to collaborate, regardless of the epoch, giving us n