Bergman: Choral Works - 1936-2000

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ERIK BERGMAN
Bergman: Choral Works - 1936-2000
Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nils Schweckendiek

[ BIS / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 26 May 2017

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In his later years often described as the grand old man of Finnish modernism, Erik Bergman(1911-2006) was among the first in Finland to use compositional methods such as twelve-tone technique, serial music, choral Sprechgesang and aleatory counterpoint. His speciality was choral music, and a large part of his huge production involves a choir in some form. This recording focuses primarily on his works for mixed choir that have not appeared on disc before, and gives a broad picture of his production for the medium over a period of more than 60 years.

Born to a Swedish-speaking family, many of Bergman's settings were of poems in Swedish, but he was a true internationalist and this two-disc set also includes works with texts in Italian, Norwegian, English, German, and, naturally, Finnish. These are here performed by the Helsinki Chamber Choir, Finland's only professional chamber choir, under its artistic director Nils Schweckendiek.

Tracks:

Disc 1
Petrarca-Suite, Op.118
Gudarnas spår, Op.88
Vestenvinden, Op73a
Lamento - Burletta (1957)
Barnet travar, Filmmanuskript & En vårvisa from Op.38a
Mitt träd är pinjen, Op.12 No.5
Four Songs for mixed chorus, Op.44b
Psalm, Op.50a; Springtime, Op 60
Vårt land, Op.146

Disc 2
Nein zur Lebensangst, Op.120
Hommage à Béla Bartók, Op.132
Sommarnatt (1945)
Nu är sommarn här (1943)
Skärgårdsgossens visa (arr.) (1938)
Den vän jag älskat… (arr.)
Och gossen gick sig ut… (arr.) (1937)
Tyttöset, Op.73b
Väinämöinen, Op.147