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Listening to Simon Philipps’s immaculately accomplished Swedish Chamber Choir is rather like sinking gently into a warm bath bubbling over with your favourite scented lotions…This album combin[es]... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Nov 2019
Catalogue No: CHSA5255
Label: Chandos
Length: 63 minutes

Record Review

16th November 2019

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Vaughan Williams: Rest

Work length4:16

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Swedish Chamber Choir
Simon Phipps

Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs

Work length7:02

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Swedish Chamber Choir
Simon Phipps

No. 1, Full Fathom Five

Track length3:29

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No. 2, The Cloud-Capp'd Towers

Track length2:29

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No. 3, Over Hill, Over Dale

Track length1:04

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Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Work length15:33

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Jennifer Pike (violin)
Swedish Chamber Choir
Simon Phipps

Bingham, J: The Drowned Lovers

Work length5:33

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Maria Forsström (mezzo-soprano)
Swedish Chamber Choir
Simon Phipps

Stanford: The Blue Bird, Op. 119 No. 3

Work length3:47

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Swedish Chamber Choir
Simon Phipps

Stenhammar: Tre körvisor (Three Choral Ballads)

Work length6:41

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Swedish Chamber Choir
Simon Phipps

No. 1, September

Track length2:19

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No. 2, I Seraillets have

Track length2:49

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No. 3, Havde jeg, o havde jeg en dattersøn, o ja!

Track length1:33

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Alfvén: Uti vår hage (Text: Folk-song from Gotland)

Work length2:34

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Swedish Chamber Choir
Simon Phipps

Hugo Alfén: Limu, limu, lima

Work length1:26

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Swedish Chamber Choir
Simon Phipps

Wikander: Kung Liljekonvalje (text: Gustav Fröding)

Work length3:53

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Swedish Chamber Choir
Simon Phipps

Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Rückert-Lieder)

Work length6:28

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Maria Forsström (mezzo-soprano)
Swedish Chamber Choir
Simon Phipps

Gjeilo: Serenity

Work length6:36

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Jennifer Pike (violin)
Swedish Chamber Choir
Simon Phipps

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The Swedish Chamber Choir makes its debut on Chandos with this fascinating programme of works for choir, choir and solo voice, and for choir and violin. The founder and conductor, Simon Phipps, leads the choir in unaccompanied works by Swedish and British composers. Maria Forsström joins them in one of Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’, in a sixteen-part arrangement by Clytus Gottwald, and in Judith Bingham’s The Drowned Lovers, a stark companion piece to Stanford’s The Blue Bird. The violinist Jennifer Pike joins the Choir in Ola Gjeilo’s stunning Serenity (a setting of O magnum mysterium) and Paul Drayton’s outstanding 2018 arrangement of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, for violin and chamber choir. Recorded in Surround Sound.

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February 2020

Listening to Simon Philipps’s immaculately accomplished Swedish Chamber Choir is rather like sinking gently into a warm bath bubbling over with your favourite scented lotions…This album combin[es] refreshing repertoire with refined choral bliss.

February 2020

This is a highly attractive and innovative programme of a cappella choral music which also makes use of solo instruments. The Swedish Chamber Choir, a beautifully honed sound with a versatile tessitura (and excellent English!), are directed by Simon Phipps, who brings a sympathetic set of interpretations to much of this inwardly melancholy repertoire.

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