DESCRIPTION:
The Swedish composer Per Gunnar Petersson is an experienced master. His dark and beautiful Aftonland suite for a cappella choir, solo singer and horns is sharing its title with Nobel Prize winner Pär Lagerkvist's last collection of poems from which the texts are taken. It is poetry that is about death, which is seen as a kind of final clarification or deliverance from cardiac excitability. The last movement is put in the mouth of the dead themselves, noting that everything remains unchanged, also human hearts turmoil - "the unrest of my heart are not anymore." Through the work you feel Lagerkvist's obsession with nature as a state of mind and as a soul mirror. Perhaps therefore Petersson also selected the primordial sound of a horn, as accompanying sound effect. Aftonland has become a signature piece for Mogens Dahl Chamber.

I dette koncertprogram skaber Mogens Dahl Kammerkor et musikalsk rum for fordybelse og giver plads til at opleve en dyb indre stilhed midt i musikkens tæt vævede klangflader. Koncerten finder sted i de korte dage mellem allehelgen og advent og er inspireret af den dybe, sakrale understrøm i den vestlige vokalmusik. Men vi bevæger os også ud i det moderne, sekulære grænseland hvor mennesket oplever den eksistentielle ensomhed, som måske er et grundvilkår i den moderne verden.

SOPRAN: Ingeborg Dalheim I Regina Olafsdottir I Sophie Thing-Simonsen I Phillipa Cold
ALT: Lone Selchau I Merete Laursen I Daniel Carlson I Johanne Højlund
TENOR: Jakob Skjoldborg I Andreas Halling I Jonathan Ingvald I Immo Schröder
BAS: Johan Bogren I David Wijkman I Christian Engquist I Staffan Liljas
Dirigent: Mogens Dahl
Hornist: David M.A.P. Palmquist