Credits:

Jugendkonzertchor der Chorakademie Dortmund

Description:

A must for Scandinavian and choral music fans! Scandinavian music has developed while adapting to folk music and folk songs. 15 pieces from the Scandinavian choral repertoire! Scandinavian culture has always fascinated people and captured their hearts. It is often said that Scandinavian music has a mysterious and "typically Nordic" sound, especially the choral music, which has developed in adaptation with folk music and folk songs, is deeply engraved with the human figure and heart in the midst of nature. The choral music of these countries reflects the daily lives of people as they change with the seasons and poses fundamental questions about life and death. The Dortmund Choral Academy Youth Concert Choir and WDR Radio Choir will sing 15 songs from the Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, and Danish choral repertoire on this album. Jan Håkan Åberg's arrangement of "In the Kingdom of Heaven" from the Swedish Hymn Book will be performed. Aura Jairo's "Where There is Mercy and Love," based on the Gregorian chant Antiphona. Auraine's "Summer Hymn" heralds the coming of summer after a dark winter.Dedicated by Motten Jansson to the Youth Concert Choir of the Dortmund Choral Academy on the occasion of winning the International Bärenreiter Choral Competition, "Drops" and "Maria IV" were commissioned by the Swedish Royal Family. Joik to the Mountain Wind," composed by Jan Sandström on the theme of "Joik," and "Sanctus," which was premiered at Notre Dame de Paris. Newstedt's "Immortal Bach" develops Bach's four-voice chorale in an "improvisation" style. Phea Nuagor composed "Rejoice, O Mother of God" from a medieval Danish Latin mass melody, and "A Rose Bloomed," a medieval melody in praise of the Virgin Mary made into "contemporary music. Yaan Yeasir's "The Valley I Loved," a nostalgic piece about his youth. Jazz pianist and composer Nils Lindberg's "How would I compare you to a summer's day" to Shakespeare's "Sonnet No. 18".Finland's Mantujärvi composed "Requiem zum Untergang der Estonia" (Ode to a Sea Disaster) as a "requiem" for the victims of a maritime disaster that occurred on September 28, 1994 in the Baltic Sea off the island of Utö, in the Finnish archipelago. Rautavaara's "First Lament" was composed on a poem by Rilke, which had interested him in his youth. King International

Tracklisting:

1.I himmelen, i himmelen
2.Ubi caritas
3.Sommarpsalm
4.Stillae
5.Till Osterland
6.Maria IV
7.Sanctus
8.Immortal Bach
9.Biegga Luohte
10.Gaudet mater
11.Min Yndlingsdal
12.Flos ut rosa floruit
13.Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day
14.Canticum calamitatis maritimae (Requiem zum Untergang der Estonia)
15.Die Erste Elegie