Photo: Markus Gårder
Fredrik Malmberg
Swedish American Line
A tribute to the cultural exchange between Sweden and the US, with the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir.
Swedish American Line offered ocean liner service for the route Gothenburg-–New York from 1915 and six decades on, with interruptions during the second world war.
In a broad and varied programme, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir is the intermediary of musical ties between Sweden and the US – if not direct so in a spiritual sense, with Swedish and American music mainly from our present time. Among these Ingvar Lidholm’s (1921–2017) Five Haiku Poems, newly discovered and premiered a couple of days before this concert, and Swedish-American Daniel Nelson’s The New Colossus, also premiered recently.
The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir was founded in 1945 by Eric Ericson, and since then it has taken a central role in the Swedish and international music scenes. The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra have enjoyed a close partnership since 2003.
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The music
Approximate times -
Samuel Barber Reincarnations for chorus a cappella9 min
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Djuro Zivkovic Musica psalterii gloriosi from Lyria Laudis for chorus a cappella7 min
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Shara Nova Urgency from Carols After a Plague for chorus a cappella4 min
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Eric Whitacre i will wade out from Three Songs of Faith for chorus a cappella3 min
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Eric Whitacre hope, faith, life, love from Three Songs of Faith for chorus a cappella4 min
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Ingvar Lidholm Five Haiku Poems for chorus a cappella6 min
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Intermission25 min
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Kristin Warfvinge Une charogne for chorus a cappella7 min
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Pauline Oliveros Sound Patterns for chorus a cappella4 min
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Morton Feldman Christian Wolff in Cambridge for chorus a cappella4 min
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Sten Hanson The New York Lament5 min
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David Lang if i am silent for chorus a cappella8 min
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Daniel Nelson The New Colussus for chorus a cappella5 min
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Encore:
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Trad Deep River, version for chorus a cappella arr Henry Burleigh3 min
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Participants
- Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
- Fredrik Malmberg conductor
- Maria Erlanson mezzo-soprano
- Olof Akre bass