Erik Westberg Vokalensemble: Longing - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Longing
Artist: Erik Westberg Vokalensemble
Label: Swedish Society
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 822359004405
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-01-24
Number of Discs: 1

The concepts of Romanticism and Late Romanticism steer our thoughts towards musical epochs, but the selection on this CD is based on a word art that encompasses romantic notions and experiences such as sorrow, joy, love, anxiety, despair, expectation, and longing that have existed in all times.This CD features, for the first time, recorded works by the young composer Alvin Vikman's five-movement piece The Japanese Seasons, Agneta Skold's Dar blaklinten slog en bro, and a bouquet of songs by composers active from the mid-1800s, Laura Netzell and Valborg Aulin.For over two hundred years, the interest in choral singing has inspired choral compositions of many different kinds. It has laid the foundation for the utilization of words and tones for the human voice, which has fostered cohesion, community, and musical innovation. Therefore, the compositions of Ludvig Norman, Jorgen Jersild, and Alvin Vikman show a continuity in humanity's need for words and tones to collaborate, regardless of the epoch, giving us n

Tracks:
1.1 Entflieht auf Leichten Kähnen Op. 2
1.2 Japanese Seasons~Introduction
1.3 Japanese Seasons~Autumn
1.4 Japanese Seasons~Winter
1.5 Japanese Seasons~Spring
1.6 Japanese Seasons~Summer
1.7 Fruit of Silence
1.8 Three Danish Romances for Choir~Min yndlingsdag
1.9 Three Danish Romances for Choir~Natteregn
1.10 Three Danish Romances for Choir~Den kedsom vinter gik sin gang
1.11 Där blåklinten slog en bro
1.12 2 Choruses a cappella Op. 24~Min lycka varade så kort
1.13 2 Choruses a cappella Op. 24~Lysen stjärnor
1.14 3 Choruses a cappella Op. 5~Qvällen
1.15 3 Choruses a cappella Op. 5~Slåttern
1.16 3 Choruses a cappella Op. 5~Sången
1.17 3 Songs, Op. 31~No. 1. Fjäriln och Rosen
1.18 Seven songs Op. 15~Da drüben
1.19 Seven songs Op. 15~Vom Berge
1.20 Seven songs Op. 15~Im Lenze
1.21 Seven songs Op. 15~Lied
1.22 Seven songs Op. 15~Köhlerglaube
1.23 Seven songs Op. 15~Die Linde
1.24 Seven songs Op. 15~Gebet