British and Swedish with Harry Bradford

For generations of Swedish composers, “the Chamber Choir” was the ideal ensemble, with its typical Nordic sound and virtuosity, and central to prominent Swedish composers like Ingvar Lidholm and Sven-David Sandström, whose music is included here.

Along with Swedish music the programme features a number of exemples of British choral music, and the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir is led by the young British conductor Harry Bradford.

• Henry Purcell/Sven-David Sandström: Hear My Prayer, O Lord
• Ingvar Lidholm: De profundis
• William Byrd: Tribulationes civitatum
• Sven-Erik Bäck: The Night is Far Spent
• Cecilia McDowall: I know that my Redeemer liveth

  Intermission
• William Byrd: Kyrie from Mass for five voices
• Roxanna Panufnik: Kyrie after Byrd
• Benjamin Britten: Hymn to St. Cecilia
• Andrea Tarrodi: Lume ”Light”
• Arnold Bax: This worldes joie
• Giles Swayne: Magnificat I