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Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Kaija Saariaho: Reconnaissance - Choral Music (2023)

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Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Kaija Saariaho: Reconnaissance - Choral Music (2023)

Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Kaija Saariaho: Reconnaissance - Choral Music (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 364 Mb | Total time: 81:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2662 | Recorded: 2022

This recording presents Kaija Saariaho's works for choir, a cappella and with electronics, and displays her virtuosity in the treatment of texts, which she endows with the full range of verbal expression. At least one of these works is also a discographic premières. Nuits, adieux, presented here both in it's a cappella version and with electronics, could be described as a lullaby, not so much for a sleeping child as for an elderly person sleeping out of our world. Funny and very serious at the same time, Horloge, tais-toi was conceived for a children choir.

Helsinki Chamber Choir & Nils Schweckendiek - Saariaho: Reconnaissance (2023)

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Helsinki Chamber Choir & Nils Schweckendiek - Saariaho: Reconnaissance (2023)

Helsinki Chamber Choir & Nils Schweckendiek - Saariaho: Reconnaissance (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 341 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 192 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:21:32
Classical, Choral | Label: BIS

This recording presents Kaija Saariaho’s works for choir, a cappella and with electronics, and displays her virtuosity in the treatment of texts, which she endows with the full range of verbal expression. At least one of these works is also a discographic premières.

Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nils Schweckendiek - Erik Bergman: Choral Works, 1936-2000 (2017)

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Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nils Schweckendiek - Erik Bergman: Choral Works, 1936-2000 (2017)

Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nils Schweckendiek - Erik Bergman: Choral Works, 1936-2000 (2017)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:52:03 | 142 MB
Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-CD-2252

The Helsinki Chamber Choir (Helsingin kamarikuoro) was founded in 1962 as the Finnish Radio Chamber Choir and assumed its current name in 2005. It is currently Finland’s only professional chamber choir. The choir’s Artistic Director from 2005–2007 was Kimmo Hakola. Since 2007 Nils Schweckendiek has been responsible for the group's artistic planning.

Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Arvo Pärt: Passio (2021)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Arvo Pärt: Passio (2021)

Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Arvo Pärt: Passio (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 307 Mb | Total time: 71:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Perfect Noise | # BIS-SACD-2612 | Recorded: 2020

Composed in 1982, Arvo Pärt’s Passio has retained its place as one of the foremost works of sacred music of the late 20th century. It has been called a minimalist masterpiece, and is a seminal work in the composer’s oeuvre – the culmination of his so-called tintinnabuli style, and the first in a line of large-scale choral works on religious themes. Passion settings have a long history, with polyphonic settings for choral performance beginning in the 15th century and continuing up until the high baroque and the monumental works by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Helsinki Chamber Choir, Jan Lehtola & Nils Schweckendiek - Riemuitkaamme!: A Finnish Christmas (2017)

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Helsinki Chamber Choir, Jan Lehtola & Nils Schweckendiek - Riemuitkaamme!: A Finnish Christmas (2017)

Helsinki Chamber Choir, Jan Lehtola & Nils Schweckendiek - Riemuitkaamme!: A Finnish Christmas (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 293 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 171 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:13:50
Classical, Choral | Label: BIS

Riemuitkaamme! is an imaginative and unconventional selection of choral music associated with Christmas as it is celebrated in Finland. Several of the pieces are by Finnish composers - Sibelius, Rautavaara and Madetoja, to name a few - while others have become part of the Christmas traditions of the country despite their international background. Among these Berlioz The Shepherds Farewell and Tchaikovskys Christ, when a Child are quite late additions compared to the medieval hymns Puernatusin Bethlehem, Ecce novum gaudium and Angelus emittitur. All three of these were included in the collection Piae cantiones from 1582, the oldest Finnish music publication. Here, they are performed in settings by various composers from different countries and eras forming a kind of soundtrack of Christmases past and present, distant and close. Contemporary music forms an important part of the activities of the Helsinki Chamber Choir and Nils Schweckendiek, and true to form, the team includes a world premiere recording in their celebrations: Aattoilta, by the Canadian-born composer Matthew Whittall.

Helsinki Chamber Choir & Nils Schweckendiek - Arvo Pärt: Passio (2021)

Posted By: delpotro
Helsinki Chamber Choir & Nils Schweckendiek - Arvo Pärt: Passio (2021)

Helsinki Chamber Choir & Nils Schweckendiek - Arvo Pärt: Passio (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 290 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 165 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:11:09
Classical | Label: BIS

Composed in 1982, Arvo Pärt’s Passio has retained its place as one of the foremost works of sacred music of the late 20th century. It has been called a minimalist masterpiece, and is a seminal work in the composer’s oeuvre – the culmination of his so-called tintinnabuli style, and the first in a line of large-scale choral works on religious themes. Passion settings have a long history, with polyphonic settings for choral performance beginning in the 15th century and continuing up until the high baroque and the monumental works by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Alex Freeman: Under the Arching Heavens: A Requiem (2020)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Alex Freeman: Under the Arching Heavens: A Requiem (2020)

Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Alex Freeman: Under the Arching Heavens: A Requiem (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 339 Mb | Total time: 81:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-SACD-2592 | Recorded: 2016, 2018

The Finnish-American composer Alex Freeman has been described as being ‘as comfortable in the realm of the pop ballad as in that of the concert hall’ and yet his songs ‘are imbued with the craftsmanship and care one would expect of a composer of his formidable academic training, just as his concert works carry the emotional immediacy of popular music.’ Himself a choral singer, Alex Freeman has written a number of works for choir: music that aims to be sonorous and melodic, but is carefully crafted to avoid the clichés that can burden conventional tonality.

Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Nostra Culpa: Vocal Music by Eugene Birman (2021)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Nostra Culpa: Vocal Music by Eugene Birman (2021)

Nils Schweckendiek, Helsinki Chamber Choir - Nostra Culpa: Vocal Music by Eugene Birman (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 68:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 500 | Recorded: 2016-2018

This recording is a rarity in the field of contemporary music: a powerful statement dictated by the desire of being heard. Nostra Culpa is a three-part recording project named after Birman-Diels eponymous, and much talked-about, Twitter Opera and exemplifies conductor Nils Schweckendiek and the Helsinki Chamber Choirs immersive engagement with the repertoire. A feat of sound engineering and performance prowess, Nostra Culpa also sanctions the emergence in the international scene of a major compositional talent.