Fientliga stjärnor (PDF) - SATB — From Under the Arching Heavens: A Requiem for mixed choir

Freeman, Alex
Title: Fientliga stjärnor (PDF) - SATB — From Under the Arching Heavens: A Requiem for mixed choir
Authors: Freeman, Alex (Composer)
Södergran, Edith (Sanoittaja)
Product number: 9790550166479
Product form: Digital download, PDF
Availability: After purchase immediately available for download
Publication date: 1.3.2022
Price: 3,30 € (3,00 € vat 0 %)

Publisher: Fennica Gehrman
Edition: 2022
Publication year: 2022
Language: Swedish
Format: PDF
Protection type: Vesileima
Pages: 11
Product family: Choral works
Mixed choir
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Mixed choir (download edition)
Finnish library classification: 78.3411 Sekakuorot
Key words: requiemit, sekakuorot, kuoromusiikki
Downloadable and printable PDF edition / Ladattava ja itse tulostettava PDF-nuotti.

An extract of the third movement of Alex Freeman's Under the arching heavens: A Requiem (2018), Fientliga stjärnor (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB) is composed to text in Sweidsh by Edith Södergran.

Duration: c. 5'30''. Have a look inside by clicking "sample".

Alex Freeman's Under the arching heavens: A Requiem (2018) was commissioned by Nils Schweckendiek and the Helsinki Chamber Choir to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Finnish civil war. Structured around the Latin liturgy of the mass for the dead, the work has a duration of more than an hour and also incorporates poems in Finnish, Swedish and English, reflecting both the specific reason for the commission and the universality of human suffering caused by war. In the non-liturgical texts chosen by Freeman, birds are a recurring image, as is that of a mother and child. The work ends with lines by Walt Whitman from a poem written in the aftermath of the American Civil War; lines described by the composer as ‘some of the most comforting poetry in the English language.' Also included on the disc is A Wilderness of Sea, another recent choral piece which draws on works by Shakespeare, and the poet's images of the sea, and of mankind's relationship with it. The complete work is available as a printed product (9790550117433).


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