Like to the Lark
Conducted by founder Simon Phipps, the Swedish Chamber Choir's debut album for Chandos features a diverse selection of original and arranged choral repertoire. Ralph Vaughan Williams's beloved The Lark Ascending is performed in an arrangement for violin – here, Jennifer Pike – and chamber choir. Mezzo-soprano Maria Forsström joins the choir for an arrangement of a Mahler song, and the album also includes works by Judith Bingham, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Ola Gjeilo and others.
©℗ 2019 Chandos
- Vaughan Williams • Rest • O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes
- Vaughan Williams • Shakespeare Songs for Chorus (1951) • 1. Full Fathom Five
- Vaughan Williams • Shakespeare Songs for Chorus (1951) • 2. The Cloud-capp'd Towers
- Vaughan Williams • Shakespeare Songs for Chorus (1951) • 3. Over Hill, Over Dale
- Vaughan Williams • The Lark Ascending for Violin and Piano (1914, rev. 1920) (Arr. for Violin and Chorus) • Andante sostenuto
- Bingham • The Drowned Lovers (1998, rev. 2009) (after C.V. Stanford: The Blue Bird op. 119/3) • In the deepest reaches of the lake
- Stanford • Eight Part-Songs op. 119 • 3. The Blue Bird
- Stenhammar • Tre körvisor (Three Choral Songs) • 1. September 'Alle de voksende Skygger'
- Stenhammar • Tre körvisor (Three Choral Songs) • 2. I Seraillets Have
- Stenhammar • Tre körvisor (Three Choral Songs) • 3. Havde jeg, o havde jeg en Dattersøn, o ja!
- Alfvén • Uti vår hage (In Our Meadow) (1923) • Uti vår hage
- Alfvén • Limu, limu, lima (1923) • Limu, limu, lima
- Wikander • Kung Liljekonvalje (1919) • Kung Liljekonvalje
- Mahler • Rückert-Lieder: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Arr. C. Gottwald for Chorus a cappella) • 3. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
- Gjeilo • Serenity (O magnum mysterium) (2012) • O magnum mysterium