chOirland
The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, The Royal Dramatic Theatre and Konserthuset Stockholm in a unique collaboration. Irish a cappella music is combined with readings of the poetry of Nobel Prize Winner Seamus Heaney.
Participants
Fredrik Malmberg, conductor
Lena Endre, actor
Hannes Meidal, actor
Siham Shurafa, actor
Jacob Hirdwall, dramaturge
Stephen Farran-Lee, host
The music
Percy Grainger: Irish Tune
Charles Villiers Stanford: The Blue Bird
David Fennessy: chOirland
Elizabeth Maconchy: The Snail
Elizabeth Maconchy: The Dove and the Wren
Frank Corcoran: Caoine
Gerald Barry: The coming of winter
Gerald Barry: Long Time
Arnold Bax: This worldes joie
Percy Grainger: Irish Tune
Upcoming concerts
75 years of choir music
Several previously unpublished recordings now on Spotify! We have also compiled six different playlists that illuminate our long history.
Bach has always been here. Sven-David Sandström took care of the legacy. With 1947’s Laudi, Ingvar Lidholm breathed new life…
The introduction in the 1970s to Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s intense music-drama relationship with early music changed the EEKK forever. From Hans…
Bengt Hallberg, pianist and composer, was one of Eric Ericson’s dearest musical ‘playmates’. After his musical setting of Shakespeare, we…
Sven-Erik Bäck’s motets: milestones in Swedish sacred music and in the EEKK’s history. Here with the composer himself as conductor….
After Shostakovich’s brutal depiction of Bloody Sunday in January 1905 in Tsarist Russia, Andrea Tarrodi’s Lume from 2009 opens with…
The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir spotlights a rarely heard composer: Canadian Claude Vivier (1948–83). He was only 34 years old…
