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With his magnificent voice and magnetic stage personality, the Swedish baritone Peter Mattei has delighted audiences at the Metropolitan in New York, La Scala in Milan and Covent Garden in London, performing roles such as the Count in The Marriage of Figaro (“…Peter Mattei, making a belated Covent Garden debut as a crisply incisive Count Almaviva”) The Telegraph on The Marriage of Figaro) and the title roles in Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin and The Barber of Seville.
The present disc is an anthology of highlights from fifteen years’ of recordings, taking in classic Swedish and international Christmas carols as well as Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
Carl Orff: Carmina Burana (arr. W. Killmayer)
I. Primo vere: Omnia sol temperat
II. In taberna: Estuans interius
II. In taberna: Ego sum abbas
III. Cour d'amours: Dies, nox et omnia
III. Cour d'amours: Circa mea pectora
III. Cour d'amours: Si puer cum puellula
III. Cour d'amours: Tempus est iocundum
Adolphe Adam: Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night) (arr. R. Sund)
Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night) (arr. R. Sund)
Peter Cornelius: Weihnachtslieder, Op. 8: No. 3. Die Konige (arr. R. Sund)
Weihnachtslieder, Op. 8: No. 3. Die Konige (arr. R. Sund)
Gunnar Wennerberg: Psalm 24, "Goren portarna hoga" (Gates, raise your arches) (arr. G. Widlund and O. Arrander)
Psalm 24, "Goren portarna hoga" (Gates, raise your arches) (arr. G. Widlund and O. Arrander)
Wilhelm Stenhammar: Florez och Blanzeflor, Op. 3
Florez och Blanzeflor, Op. 3
Olle Adolphson: Nur ar det Gott att Leva (Now is the Time for Living) (arr. R. Sund)
Nur ar det Gott att Leva (Now is the Time for Living) (arr. R. Sund)
Traditional: Londonderry Air (arr. R. Sund)
Londonderry Air (arr. R. Sund)
Olle Adolphson: Nu ar det gott att leva (arr. R. Sund)
Nu ar det gott att leva (arr. R. Sund)
Sven Scholander: Heldagskvall i Timmerkojan (Evening in the Logging Camp) (arr. R. Sund)
Heldagskvall i Timmerkojan (Evening in the Logging Camp) (arr. R. Sund)
Jean Sibelius: 5 Christmas Songs, Op. 1: No. 4. Giv mig ej glans (Give me no splendour), "Julvisa"
5 Christmas Songs, Op. 1: No. 4. Giv mig ej glans (Give me no splendour), "Julvisa"
Peter Cornelius: Weihnachtslieder, Op. 8 (arr. I. Atkins)
Weihnachtslieder, Op. 8: No. 2. Die Hirten (Tre Kungar) (arr. I. Atkins)
Ruben Liljefors: Nar det lider mot jul (Christmas draws nigh)
Nar det lider mot jul (When Christmas is Coming)
Traditional: Harlig ar jorden (Glorius is the Earth) (arr. D. Anstey)
Harlig ar jorden (Glorious is the Earth) (arr. D. Anstey)
Adolphe Adam: Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night) (Sung in Swedish)
Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night) (Sung in Swedish)
Maurice Durufle: Requiem, Op. 9
Requiem, Op. 9, Domine Jesu Christe: Hostias et preces
Maurice Durufle: Mass, Op. 11, "Cum jubilo"
Gloria
Benedictus
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I. Primo vere: Omnia sol temperat