This page lists all recordings of Kung Liljekonvalje (text: Gustav Fröding), by David Wikander (1884-1955) on CD, SACD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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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! “Traditional Swedish folksongs are interwoven with newer choral works” BBC Music Magazine, December 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.” Gramophone Magazine, November 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.” International Record Review, December 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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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 Magazine, March 2009 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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“Their climax is Lars Johan Werle's wonderful, testing setting of Petrarch's 126th Canzone, which opens in a Gesualdo-like style and gradually assimilates more modern elements before returning to the opening simplicity. This is how all contemporary choral music should be sung.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2006 | |
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Adolphson: | Nu har jag fått den jag vill ha Nu är det gott att leva | Béen: | Majsång (Sköna maj, välkommen) (Text: Johan Ludvig Runeberg) | Gustaf: | Vårsång (Text: Herman Sähterberg) Sjungom studentens lyckliga dag (Let Us Sing about the Happy Days of Students) | Halle, A: | Madrigal (Kom, du ljuva hjärtevän) (Svensk text: Einar Ralf) | Hedar: | Regnvisan (Text: Karl Asplund) | Järnefelt: | Vill du komma med mig? (Text: Josef Julius Wecksell) | Jeppesen: | Juninat (Text: Viggo Stuckenberg) | Jersild: | Guldsmed (Text: Hans Storm) | Josephson: | Vårsång (Vårliga vindar draga) (Text: Frithiof Grafström) Serenad (Stjärnorna tindra re'n) | Kapfelman: | Vårsång (Våren är kommen) (Text: Carl Fredrik Dahlgren) | Kuhlau: | Majsång 'O, hur härligt majsol ler' (Text: Johan Heinrich Voss/Carl Wilhelm Böttiger) | Lindblad, A F: | En sommarafton (Över skogen, över sjön) | Lindblad, O: | Längtan till landet (Vintern rasat ut) (Text: Herman Sähterberg) | Marschner, A E: | Gute Nacht (Text: Oscar Ludvig Bernhard Wolff) | Myrberg: | Serenad (Slumra hulda vid min sång) | Nielsen: | Aftenstemning (Text: Carsten Hauch, after Matthias Claudius) | Palm: | Under rönn och syrén (text: Zacharias Topelius) | Peterson-Berger: | På fjället i sol | Petschke: | Välkommen till våren | Sjögren: | Vårluft (Text: Zacharias Topelius) | Taube, E: | Vals i Valparaiso Fragancia | trad.: | Kristallen den fina Till Österland Jeg lagde mig saa sildig | Wikander: | Dofta, dofta, vit syrén (text: Emil Kleen) Kung Liljekonvalje (text: Gustav Fröding) |
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