Om Adolf Fredriks Flickkörs medverkan på Arktis Arktis!
Sofia Nyblom, Svenska Dagbladet (15 juni 2005): I sista spåret på detta cd-porträtt hörs fyra trallande, kulande änglar bryta sig in i koralen I himmelen med spjuveraktigt trots och jubel. Glad blir även jag. Upsala Nya Tidning (18 aug 2005): Man fascineras av hur Rehnqvist lyckas sammanfläta traditionell dalakoral med kulningsteknik, och detta i en stämföring som kontrasterar det snällt romantiska mot det expressivt frigörande. Adolf Fredriks flickkör under Bo Johansson klarar de disparata stämmorna med bravur.
I himmelen for treble voices with soloists, written for the Adolf Fredrik’s Girls Choir on the occasion of their tour to China, is a very fine example of Rehnqvist’s imagination and skill when writing for voices; she was – and may still be – the director of an amateur choir. It is also representative of her music in general, in which characteristics of folk music (such as micro-intervals, slurs, glissandos, and timbral qualities of "untrained" human voices) are woven into an overtly modernistic framework, without there ever being any brutal opposition. Quite the contrary: the folk-inflected material widens the expressive palette of the modern techniques (or the other way round), with strikingly imaginative results. In this short piece, the treble choir sing a traditional chorale from Dalecarlia while four soloists insistently repeat a high-pitched fanfare-like phrase on the words I himmelen ("In Heavens"). This is a real little gem, if ever there was one. I was literally stunned by these young singers’ immaculate rendition, the four soloists brilliantly – and accurately – coping with their fiendishly high-lying parts. |
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