BIS-CD-1549/50
Total Time: 123'27 – Release: Aug 2005

EAN 7318591549505


Lidholm - khoros
Swedish Grammy "Classical Ensemble of the Year" 2005
CD 1:
Ingvar Lidholm
Laudi (1947) for mixed chorus 1. I. 3'50
2. II. 3'17
3. III. 2'27

Four Choruses (1953) for mixed chorus (text: Åke Nilsson) 4. I. The Pillar of Time (Tidens pelare) 3'11
5. II. The Sea (Havet) 2'46
6. III. Breaking Up (Uppbrott) 1'08
7. IV. Afterwards (Efteråt) 3'37

Three Songs 8. I. Story (Saga) for male chorus (text: Erik Härninge) 1'53
9. II. Milkwort (Jungfrulin) for female chorus (text: Erik Härninge) 1'08
10. III. The Madonna´s Lullaby (Madonnans vaggvisa) (text: C.A. Hagberg) 2'42

11. Canto LXXXI (1956) for mixed chorus (text: Ezra Pound) 9'00

12. The Persians (Perserna) (1978). Dramatic scena for male chorus, tenor, baritone and narrator (text: after Aeschylus´s play) 21'40

CD 2:
1. Libera me (1994) for mixed chorus (text: from the Catholic Requiem Mass) 12'17

2. Motto (1959) for mixed chorus (text: Ovid) 2'13

Two Greek Epigrams (Två grekiska epigram) (1959) (text: Emil Zilliacus) 3. I. Brief Is the Time of Roses (Kort är rosornas tid) for male chorus 2'31
4. II. Phrasikleia for female chorus and soprano solo 2'47

5. Greek Gravestone (Grekisk gravrelief) (2003) for mixed chorus (text: Kjell Espmark) 7'41

Three Strindberg Songs (Tre Strindbergsånger) (1959) for mixed chorus 6. I. Welcome Back Sweet Sun (Välkommen åter snälla sol) 1'09
7. II. Ballad 2'44
8. III. Summer´s Evening (Sommarafton) 3'22

From the opera A Dreem Play (Ett Drömspel) (text: August Strindberg) 9. De profundis (1983) for mixed chorus 7'25
10. Lament of the Winds (Vindarnas klagan) (1992) for mixed chorus 4'14
11. Faithfully and Gently (Troget och milt) (1992) for baritone solo and chorus 2'40

12. ...a riveder de stelle (1973) for soprano and mixed chorus (text: Dante Alighieri) 13'53

Margaretha Ljunggren, soprano
Hannah Holgersson, soprano
Jeanette Köhn, soprano
Stefan Dahlberg, tenor
Karl-Magnus Fredriksson, baritone
Lars Arvidsson, bass-baritone
Per Myrberg, narrator
Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, choir
Eric Ericson, conductor