The Swedish Chamber Choir makes it's 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.

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3 Shakespeare Songs: No. 1, Full Fathom Five
3 Shakespeare Songs: No. 2, The Cloud-Capp'd Towers
3 Shakespeare Songs: No. 3, Over Hill, Over Dale
The Lark Ascending (Arr. P. Drayton For Violin & Chamber Choir)
The Drowned Lovers (After Stanford)
The Blue Bird, Op. 119 No. 3
3 Choral Songs: No. 1, September
3 Choral Songs: No. 2, I Seraillets Have
3 Choral Songs: No. 3, Havde Jeg, O Havde Jeg En Dattersøn, O Ja!
Uti Vår Hage
Limu, Limu, Lima
Kung Liljekonvalje
Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen (Arr. C. Gottwald For 16 Voices)
Serenity (O Magnum Mysterium) [Version For Violin & Mixed Chorus]

UPC: 095115525524
Label: Chandos
Release Date: 11.1.19
Format: CD

Gjeilo / Pike / Phipps - Like to the Lark (CD)