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CHAN 9747 front.qxd 26/7/07 10:53 am Page 1 Volume 3 CHAN 9747 CHANDOS Laudi Swedish a cappella Stefan Parkman Academy Chamber Choir of Uppsala Stefan Parkman CHAN 9747 BOOK.qxd 26/7/07 10:54 am Page 2 Laudi – Swedish a cappella, Hilding Rosenberg (1892–1985) Volume 3 Chorales from Symphony No. 4 ‘Johannes uppenbarelse’ (The Revelation of St John) 5:59 Ingvar Lidholm (b. 1921) 10 I Det brinner på den ö som heter jorden 2:35 Laudi 8:39 I The flames rise from an isle 0:00 1 I Homo natus de muliere 3:13 11 IV Jag känner dig i nöden 1:42 I Man born of woman 0:00 I know thee, know what fails thee 2 II Haec dicit Dominus 2:54 12 V Den stund är värd att prisa 1:42 Thus saith the Lord That hour is worth all glory 3 III Laudate Dominum omnes gentes 2:32 O praise the Lord all nations arr. Jan Åke Hillerud (b. 1938) 13 Jag nu den pärlan funnit har 1:19 Torsten Nilsson (b. 1920) I I have now found the pearl 0:00 from Ordinarium missae 14 Dagen ifrån oss skrider 2:37 4 I Kyrie 2:48 Day is leaving us Lars Edlund (b. 1922) arr. Karl-Erik Svedlund (1906–1974) 5 I Gloria 7:07 15 Leif Aruhn-Solén tenor Det blir något i himlen för barnen att få 3:19 There will be something in heaven for the children 0:00 Jan Carlstedt (b. 1926) from Missa in honorem Papae Ioannis Pauli II arr. Gunnar Hahn (b. 1908) 6 I Credo 13:57 16 O Jesu, när jag hädan skall 2:29 O Jesus, when I have to leave this place 0:00 Jan Sandström (b. 1954) 7 I Sanctus 3:33 arr. Jan Håkan Åberg (b. 1916) 17 I himmelen, i himmelen 2:25 Sven-David Sandström (b. 1942) In heaven, in heaven 0:00 8 I Agnus Dei 5:11 TT 65:33 Otto Olsson (1879–1964) 9 I Jesu corona celsior 5:16 Academy Chamber Choir of Uppsala Jesus, crown of heaven Stefan Parkman 2 3 CHAN 9747 BOOK.qxd 26/7/07 10:54 am Page 4 Swedish choral music. At that time, this work Jan Carlstedt wrote parts of his Missa in Swedish a cappella, Volume 3 was judged practically impossible to perform, honorem Papae Ioannis Pauli II in 1989 to be due to its difficult intervals and harsh performed at the Vatican. The entire Mass was dissonances, but nowadays it is sung by a premiered in 1993 by the Academy Chamber Swedish choral singing can be characterised Dalecarlia, a region in the middle of the great number of Swedish choirs. From the Choir of Uppsala. The Credo is conceived as a mass social movement – about one country where local music traditions were very 1950s Lidholm developed towards a more orchestrally, on an epic scale like the rest of Swede in ten sings in a choir. Swedish choral strong, great pride was taken in congregational advanced technique in his choral music, the Mass, yet has lyrical qualities and is an life has two discernible roots: on the one hand hymn singing, and a nineteenth-century visitor without however abandoning his characteristic example of excellent vocal writing. university student choirs, and on the other who asked why there was no organ in the expressiveness. In both words and music, Jan Sandström teaches composition in congregational hymn singing and church church received the answer: ‘We are the organ Laudi describes a movement from tribulation Piteå in the north of Sweden. He received choirs. In the nineteenth century Stockholm ourselves’. These ornamental variants often and repentance to confidence and jubilation. international attention with his spectacular Royal Conservatory, the most prestigious differed from one parish to another. They were For a long time Torsten Nilsson, the author composition A Short Ride on a Motorbike for music institution of the country, was to a great documented by folk music collectors in the of the Kyrie, was the leading organist and trombone and orchestra, dedicated to the extent a school for musicians of the Church of nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and many choir conductor in Sweden. As a composer he trombone virtuoso Christian Lindberg. His Sweden, a so-called State Church. of them are considered a vital part of was influenced by the German neo-baroque Sanctus from the beginning of the 1990s is Even some of today’s best Swedish Sweden’s musical heritage. Sometimes they are music of Hugo Distler and others, and later by very retrospective in style, and the church’s chamber choirs began as church choirs and sung in their original, unaccompanied form and serial techniques. Elements of the latter fuse acoustics are a vital part of the composition. then developed into more sophisticated sometimes, as here, in arrangements. with a lyrical melody in his Ordinarium missae Sven-David Sandström, professor of concert-giving choirs. Swedish choral singers This disc contains examples of Swedish from 1964, from which this Kyrie is taken. composition at the Stockholm Conservatory, is often have a background in the musical life of religious choral music mainly composed after Its outer parts are built on a cantabile a prolific composer of orchestral works. His churches, not least in the so-called Free the Second World War. One section contains twelve-tone row with a Gregorian quality, the religious music includes a large-scale Requiem Churches – the Methodist Church, Baptist works by different composers formed into a middle part on the pleading cries of ‘Christe written together with Swedish poet Tobias churches and the Mission Covenant Church of collage-like Mass Ordinary, while another eleison’. Berggren. His most well-known religious work Sweden – which were formed outside and in comprises arrangements of Swedish spiritual Lars Edlund is the author of is the Agnus Dei from 1981. Its romantic conflict with the State. Several choral folk songs, of the type mentioned above, in much-consulted works of music pedagogy, expressiveness and harmony, which oscillates composers and choir leaders were trained in idiomatic choral arrangements by Jan Åke and also one of Sweden’s foremost choir between traditional language and cluster this kind of environment. Hillerud, Jan Håkan Åberg, Gunnar Hahn and composers, not least in the field of church technique, make this a particularly rewarding Before Swedish congregational singing was Karl-Erik Svedlund; apart from this, there are music. In his Gloria from 1969, an ecstatic piece. This Agnus Dei is part of a Mass standardised across the country, many local also a number of unrelated pieces. tenor solo is followed by choral music giving a Ordinary, composed over a long period of traditions and variants of the official songs With his Laudi, composed in 1948 for Eric dramatic interpretation of the text, using time, but it is often sung separately by developed, and some of them survived even Ericson and the Chamber Choir of the Swedish effects such as whispers, micro-intervals and Swedish choirs. into the beginning of the twentieth century. In Radio, Ingvar Lidholm created a milestone in tone clusters. Otto Olsson was one of Sweden’s foremost 4 5 CHAN 9747 BOOK.qxd 26/7/07 10:54 am Page 6 composers for organ. He was basically a Bohlin, and since then has been closely Opera in Stockholm. He regularly conducts as a soloist, primarily as the Evangelist, in romantic, and his works reveal some influences associated with Uppsala University. It has been the Swedish Radio Choir, the Rundfunkchor, baroque oratorios and passions. In 1997 from contemporary French organ music and directed by Sweden’s foremost choral Berlin and the BBC Singers, teaches choral Stefan Parkman was made a Knight of the from Gregorian chant. He was professor of conductors, from Professor Eric Ericson conducting at the Royal College of Music in Dannebrog. In 1998 he was elected a organ at Stockholm Conservatory and through Dan-Olof Stenlund and Anders Eby to Stockholm and gives master classes in member of the Royal Swedish Musical generally had a central position in Swedish Stefan Parkman, its conductor since 1983. Scandinavia and elsewhere. He also appears Academy. church music. Olsson was also a successful Academy Chamber Choir of Uppsala rapidly choral composer. His Jesu corona celsior has a built a reputation as one of Sweden’s leading harmonic colour which recalls César Franck. mixed choirs with a broad repertoire, from Hilding Rosenberg was one of the leading Renaissance to contemporary music, and figures in Swedish twentieth-century music. stylistic range, from a cappella to choral works In the 1920s he championed modern Swedish with orchestra. The Choir has toured Europe music, as a composer, pianist and conductor. and the USA and has made a number of He was prolific in all musical genres and in the recordings. 1940s he became the most important teacher of young, modernistic composers. The choral Stefan Parkman was born in 1952. At the pieces presented here were never intended for Royal College of Music in Stockholm he liturgical use. They appear in Rosenberg’s studied singing, as well as choral conducting Fourth Symphony, ‘The Revelation of St John’, with Eric Ericson and orchestral conducting from 1940 for baritone recitative, chorus and with Jorma Panula. He was director of the orchestra. The texts of the Symphony are all Boys’ Choir at Uppsala Cathedral from 1974 taken from the Bible, with the exception of to 1988, and conductor of the Royal these a cappella pieces which are settings Philharmonic Chorus in Stockholm from 1985 of poems by Hjalmar Gullberg – lyrical to 1993.