Where:
Cheltenham Music Festival
The Swedish Church in London
St. Mary’s Church.
Tickets:
From £5.95
A regional exploration of Nordic choral music from the late nineteenth-century to the present day. The hour-long concert is designed to give its audience the broadest possible experience of Nordic choral sound, featuring ‘kulning’ (Swedish herding calls), Norwegian folk-singing, and ‘löyly’ (the sound of steam in a Finnish sauna).
Programme:
Icelandic hymn (arr. Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson) – Heyr, himna smiður
Edvard Grieg – Hvad est du dog skjøn
Wilhelm Stenhammar – September
Jean Sibelius – Rakastava
Kaija Saariaho – Nuits, Adieux
David Wikander – Förvårskväll
Matthew Whittall – Lauantaisauna
Per Nørgård – Maya Danser
Norwegian folksong (arr. Ørjan Matre) – Halleluja, vår strid er endt
Karin Rehnqvist – I Himmelen
Tour dates:
5th July, Cheltenham Music Festival
2.15 PM pre-concert talk, 3.00 PM concert
All Saints Church, Cheltenham, GL52 2HG.
6th July, The Swedish Church in London
6.45 PM pre-concert talk, 7.30 PM concert
The Swedish Church, 6 Harcourt Street, London, W1H 4AG.
7th July, The Swedish Church in London
1.45 PM pre-concert talk, 2.30 PM concert
The Swedish Church, 6 Harcourt Street, London, W1H 4AG.
9th July, St. Mary’s Church, Warwick
6.45 PM pre-concert talk, 7.30 PM concert
St. Mary’s Church, Old Square, Warwick, CV34 4RA.
Top photo: The Carice Singers.
Where:
Cheltenham Music Festival
The Swedish Church in London
St. Mary’s Church.
Tickets:
From £5.95
Norwegian Art