De Profundis: Sacred Repertoire for Male Choir

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Mainly unfamiliar repertoire, in warmly blended performances by one of Sweden's oldest male-voice choirs. Rossini's Preghiera stands out for its charm and lightness of touch. The sound is plushly... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Sep 2013
Catalogue No: BIS2053
Label: BIS
Length: 66 minutes

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anon.: Oh Kristus valgus oled sa

Work length5:26

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Andrew Canning
Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

Kreek: Taaveti laulud, No. 137 "Paabeli jogede kaldail"

Work length6:13

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Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

Eespere: Glorificatio

Work length7:02

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Elin Rombo, Andrew Canning
Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

Andres Lemba: Gloria

Work length2:49

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Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

Söderman: Andliga Sånger (Spiritual Songs)

Work length4:49

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Elin Rombo
Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

Kyrie

Track length2:42

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Domine

Track length2:07

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Sandstrøm, S-D: Sanctus

Work length4:53

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Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

Orbán: Daemon irrepit callidus

Work length1:41

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Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

Grieg: Ave Maris Stella

Work length3:21

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Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

Fougstedt: Nattlig Madonna

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Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

Biebl: Ave Maria

Work length5:44

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Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

Milhaud: Psaume 121, Op. 72

Work length3:03

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Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

Rossini: Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. 3 'Morceaux réservés'

Work length3:16

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Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

No. 7, Preghiera

Track length3:16

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Chilcott: Newton's Amazing Grace

Work length5:39

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Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

Langlais: Psalm 150 "Praise the Lord"

Work length3:57

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Andrew Canning
Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

Pärt: De profundis

Work length6:23

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Andrew Canning, Magnus Einarsson
Orphei Drängar
Cecilia Rydinger Alin

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Estonia provides both starting point and goal for this disc of sacred music for male choir, with a traditional hymn followed by works by composers such as Kreek, Eespere and Lemba, and the closing De profundis by Arvo Pärt. But in between, Orphei Drängar and their conductor Cecilia Rydinger Alin make a grand tour of Europe, taking in music by composers from the Nordic countries, France, Italy, Central Europe and the UK. Biblical Psalms have provided many of these with their texts, such as Milhaud (in French), Langlais (in English), Kreek (in Estonian) and Pärt (in Latin). Others – Lemba, Söderman, Sandström – have set portions of the text of the Catholic mass. Grieg and Biebl were both inspired by prayers in Latin, while Rossini chose to set one in Italian. For Nattlig madonna ('Nocturnal Madonna') the Finnish composer Nils-Eric Fougstedt selected a poem depicting the Virgin Mary with her newborn child by his compatriot Edith Södergran, while Bob Chilcott has chosen one by the Guyanese-British poet John Aagard, whose version of John Newton's Amazing Grace gives the background to the conversion of this 18th-century slave-trader turned abolitionist. Throughout a programme ranging from Rossini's Preghiera from c. 1860 to Sven-David Sandström's Sanctus, composed for the choir in 2010, Orphei Drängar and Rydinger Alin once again demonstrate the versatility and exalted standards that habitually causes the choir to be described as the finest male-voice choir in the world.

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December 2013

Mainly unfamiliar repertoire, in warmly blended performances by one of Sweden's oldest male-voice choirs. Rossini's Preghiera stands out for its charm and lightness of touch. The sound is plushly satisfying.

March 2014

Orphei Drängar's rich, deep, enormously versatile sound is beautifully captured by BIS's engineers and sounds glorious on this SACD. Essential for any choral enthusiast.

30th October 2013

Orphei Drängar is a 160-year-old choir with a warm sound and a seeming inability to ever sound ugly, no matter the language they’re singing...Narrowing down my Recording of the Year list just got a lot harder.

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