In the mid-nineteenth century, Europe appeared to be on the verge of a Golden Age of choral music. There was an astonishing resurgence everywhere of music for men’s and women’s voices and for mixed choirs. From as early as 1810, singing clubs, choral societies and Liedertafel (song-tables) shot up like mushrooms in Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Cologne and Vienna. The best-known was the Liedertafel started up in 1808 by Mendelssohn’s teacher Carl Friedrich Zelter, who was leader of the choral tradition that flourished in the nineteenth century has lost none of its strength. According to statistics, no less than ten percent of its nine million inhabitants sing in a choir. Varmland, the western province of Sweden, even has a reputation for its astronomical number of five hundred choirs! A large part of the repertoire consists of old Swedish folk songs, a cultural heritage that came to enjoy renewed and strong interest in the nineteenth century. Composers have since arranged them for choir, often in an accessible, neo-Romantic folk-song style and in strophic form. But songs were also adapted in a contemporary style and for all sorts of ensembles. One of the most familiar names in this respect is that of Hugo Alfven, the foremost Swedish composer of the twentieth century. He became known for his furtherance of Swedish choral music and folk songs in Europe, and for his five post-Romantic symphonies and the Swedish rhapsody Midsommarvaka (1904). On the present recording, traditional Swedish folk songs are combined with contemporary choral music. Most of the pieces are Swedish, but Denmark (Jörgen Jersild) and Finland (Jaakko Marvi) are also represented.
01. Sloabbme-njunnje 2:59
02. Kung Liljekonvalje 3:38
03. Förvårskväll 4:58
04. Biegga Njunnjí 3:28
05. Biegga Luothe 9:32
06. Gjendines Bådnlåt 3:25
07. Tre romantiske korsange: I. Min yndlingsdal 3:58
08. The Suitors: I. Introduction 6:13
09. The Suitors: II. The Sun 4:03
10. The Suitors: III. The Moon 5:26
11. The Suitors: IV. The North Star 5:35
12. Och jungfrun hon går i ringen 1:34
13. Aftonen 3:58
14. Kristallen den fina 4:24
15. Mouyayoum 12:46
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