Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – Like to the Lark (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – Like to the Lark (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:54 minutes | 1013 MB | Genre: Classical
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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 Forsström joins them in one of Mahler’s Rückert 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. Recorded in Surround Sound.

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 Forsström joins them in one of Mahler’s Rückert-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.

Tracklist:
1. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – Rest (04:16)
2. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – 3 Shakespeare Songs: No. 1, Full Fathom Five (03:29)
3. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – 3 Shakespeare Songs: No. 2, The Cloud-Capp’d Towers (02:29)
4. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – 3 Shakespeare Songs: No. 3, Over Hill, Over Dale (01:04)
5. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – The Lark Ascending (Arr. P. Drayton for Violin & Chamber Choir) (15:33)
6. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – The Drowned Lovers (After Stanford) (05:33)
7. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – The Blue Bird, Op. 119 No. 3 (03:47)
8. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – 3 Choral Songs: No. 1, September (02:19)
9. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – 3 Choral Songs: No. 2, I Seraillets have (02:49)
10. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – 3 Choral Songs: No. 3, Havde jeg, o havde jeg en dattersøn, o ja! (01:33)
11. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – Uti vår hage (02:34)
12. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – Limu, limu, lima (01:26)
13. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – Kung Liljekonvalje (03:53)
14. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Arr. C. Gottwald for 16 Voices) (06:28)
15. Swedish Chamber Choir & Simon Phipps – Serenity (O Magnum Mysterium) [Version for Violin & Mixed Chorus] (06:36)

Personnel:
Jennifer Pike (violin)
Maria Forsström (mezzo-soprano)
The Swedish Chamber Choir
Simon Phipps (conductor)

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