Resonanser - Swedish Choral Music / Rydinger-Alin, Allmänna Singers, et al

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Album Summary

Performers

• Erik Astedt (Voice)
• Rebecka Ohm (Voice)
• Anders Widmark (Piano)
• Annie von Heijne (Voice)
• Per Wickstrom (Voice)

Composers

• Adolf Fredrik Lindblad (1801 - 1878)
• Ale Möller (1940s - )
• David Wikander (1884 - 1955)
• Herman Palm (1863 - 1942)
• Lena Willemark
• Jan Sandström (1954 - )
• Hans Gardemar
• Staffan Lindberg
• Hugo Alfvén (1872 - 1960)
• Karin Rehnqvist (1957 - )
• Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871 - 1927)
• Anders Hillborg (1954 - )

Notes & Reviews:

The choir featured on this disc, Allmänna Sången, is a student choir with a history going back for more than 175 years. A collaboration with Swedish jazz pianist Anders Widmark lends unusual colours to settings of ancient folk chorales (I Himmelen) and traditional harvest songs (Slåttervisa), as well as to classics from the treasure of Swedish choral music such as Stenhammar's Three Choral Songs and Alfvén's Evening ('Aftonen').

"At first glance this might seem a curious concept, Swedish folksongs as sung - exceptionally so, let me say straightaway - mostly unaccompanied by a modest chorus through some of which jazz improvisations weave a separate counterpoint. ... a fine and varied programme, beautifully recorded in a spacious but not over-resonant acoustic. As a programme - and this is definitely a disc to be played through in one sitting - the total effect is greater than the sum of its parts." - Gramophone

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Uppsala University Hall, Uppsala, Sweden (03/2008).

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Works Details

Jan Sandström (1954 - ) : Bieggá luohte

• Performer: Erik Astedt (Voice)
• Running Time: 4 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1998

Rehnquist, Karin : Ljisfälten, for chorus

• Running Time: 1 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Rehnquist, Karin : I himmelen, for 4 soloists & chorus (after a Swedish folk song)

• Performers: Rebecka Ohm (Voice); Anders Widmark (Piano); Annie von Heijne (Voice)
• Running Time: 5 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1998

Ale Möller (1940s - ) : Glaspolskan, for chorus

• Running Time: 2 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Gardemar, Hans : Slängpolska efter Byss-Kalle, for chorus

• Running Time: 3 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Stenhammar, Wilhelm : Three Choral Ballads

• Performer: Anders Widmark (Piano)
• Running Time: 10 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Wikander, David : Kung Liljekonvalje, for chorus

• Running Time: 3 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Lindberg, Staffan : Slåttervisa efter Knis Karl, for chorus

• Performers: Per Wickstrom (Voice); Anders Widmark (Piano)
• Running Time: 4 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Hillborg, Anders : En midsommarnattsdröm, for chorus

• Running Time: 5 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Palm, Herman : Under rönn och syrén

• Performer: Anders Widmark (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Hugo Alfvén (1872 - 1960) : Aftonen for male voices & instruments (Evening), R187

• Performer: Anders Widmark (Piano)
• Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1942

Lindblad, Adolf Fredrik : Med en barnbön på sin mun (ur Drömmarne), for chorus & piano

• Performer: Anders Widmark (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Willemark, Lena : Bröllopsvisa, for chorus

• Running Time: 2 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary