Nordic Sounds 2

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Traditional Swedish folksongs are interwoven with newer choral works — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Sep 2012
Catalogue No: CCSSA32812
Label: Channel
Length: 75 minutes

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Jan Sandström, Johan Märak: Sloabbme-njunnje

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Swedish Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra

Wikander: Kung Liljekonvalje (text: Gustav Fröding)

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Swedish Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra

Wikander: Forvarskavall

Work length4:58

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Swedish Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra

Jan Sandström, Johan Märak: Biegga Njunnjí

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Swedish Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra, Per Björsund

Jan Sandström, Johan Märak: Biegga Luothe

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Swedish Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra, Johan Pejler

anon.: Gjendines Bådnlåt

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Swedish Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra, Ulla Sjöblom

Jersild: Tre romantiske korsange: I. Min yndlingsdal

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Swedish Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra

Mäntyjärvi: The Suitors

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Swedish Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra, Andreas Olsson, Sofia Niklasson, Christiane Höjlund, Tove Nilsson, Love Enström, Conny Thimander

I. Introduction

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II. The Sun

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III. The Moon

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IV. The North Star

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Alfvén: Och jungfrun hon går i ringen (Text: Swedish Dance)

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Swedish Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra

Alfvén: Aftonen

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Swedish Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra

anon.: Kristallen den fina

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Swedish Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra

Hillborg: muoayiyoum

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Swedish Radio Choir, Peter Dijkstra

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The CD features a.o. arrangements by Jan Sandström of improvised folk songs of the Sami people - whose singing is among the earliest continuing vocal traditions of Europe - but also recent works like the sixteen-part Kosijat (The Suitors; 2001) by one of the best-known contemporary composers in Finland, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi. The final piece on the cd, Muoayiayaoum is a phonetic formula, a sequence of vowels which open and close.

This is the purpose of the twelve-minute piece, as the composer Anders Hillborg ventures in search of the greatest possible precision in terms of timbre, pulse and dynamics. The level of vocal virtuosity that Peter Dijkstra elicits from his singers of The Swedish Radio Choir, collectively, is breathtaking and his cd ‘Nordic Sounds 1’ with music of Sandström as well as his most recent Poulenc recording ‘Figure Humaine’, received great critical acclaim and important awards!

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December 2012

Traditional Swedish folksongs are interwoven with newer choral works

November 2012

This is such a choral feast that one can only shake one's head in wonderment that such lovely music is so little known outside Scandinavia. The Swedish Radio Choir's reputation for flawless singing is as solid as ever and, under Peter Dijkstra's direction, it has become a powerful though flexible instrument capable of tremendously warm and gilded singing.

December 2012

The timbral and rhythmic precision of their performances does not prevent the singing from projecting a genuinely human warmth. The choir is responsive to the wide variety of styles represented here; one senses the singers' enjoyment.

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