Browse: Stenhammar - Tre körvisor (Three Choral Ballads)

Listening to Simon Philipps’s immaculately accomplished Swedish Chamber Choir is rather like sinking gently into a warm bath bubbling over with your favourite scented lotions…This album combin[es]... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2009 More…

[Vox Reportage] can seem uncomfortably close to a virtuoso demonstration of the manifold noises top chamber choirs are capable of creating nowadays…It left me a little unsettled and enervated,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2006 More…