Springtime Singing

Singing Christmas – Symphonic Christmas time

At this concert, the RSB is supported by two choirs from the Händelgymnasium. The audience is also cordially invited to sing along to the classics of the Christmas season: from festive and contemplative to classical and upbeat. You can look forward to a musical Advent with well-known and new Christmas compositions.To prepare for the sing-along concert, you can download the sheet music for the sing-along piece and listen to recordings here.Recordings with vocals:Il est né Ding-Dong Bells We wish you a merry christmas Stille Nacht In dulci jubiloPlayback:Il est né Ding-Dong Bells We wish you a merry christmas Stille Nacht In dulci jubiloEnjoy practicing!

Singing Ravel

Ravel’s oeuvre includes only a few pieces written for choir, but his music seems to call to the voice. Many a composer have dabbled in the vocal transcription of his works—allowing us to rediscover them in a new light.

Springtime from Vienna

Springtime from Vienna

Springtime from Vienna

The Singing Circus - International

School choirs, amateur choirs, and professional choirs—one thing unites them all: the passion for choral singing! The WDR Rundfunkchor and Simon Halsey invite you to a grand choral event in Luxembourg this season.

Advent singing Citizens' Choir

Swedish Music Spring – Singing Guidance

In all three works, the vocal element takes centre stage. Soprano soloist in two of the pieces is Alexandra Büchel – one of our foremost interpreters of contemporary music, among other genres. This spring, she appears at Norrlandsoperan in the newly composed opera Älskarinnorna by Jenny Wilson, based on Elfriede Jelinek’s novel Women as Lovers (Die Liebhaberinnen).Vägar, flyktvägar (Paths, Escape Routes) for soprano and percussion by Ylva Q Arkvik is a triptych exploring themes of captivity in the past, the longing to flee from and to something new, and the magic of liberation in an unexpected moment. The poems are taken from an upcoming collection by playwright, librettist, and author Kerstin Perski. The music captures the dreamlike quality of the texts.Omnia tempus habent (Everything Has Its Time) is Arne Mellnäs’s setting of the text from Ecclesiastes. Composed for solo soprano, it conveys a consoling message in both words and music: hardship is temporary, and light will return. The piece, best performed in a venue with generous acoustics, was premiered in 1972 at Visby Cathedral by Marianne Mellnäs.Jag märker allting (I Notice Everything) by Hans Gefors is a cantata in a prologue and twelve movements, with actor Hannes Meidal as narrator, guiding us through the music. As vocal soloist, we hear countertenor Elias Aaron Johansson. Gefors weaves together lines from Strindberg’s pilgrimage play To Damascus with poems by the 20th-century Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. The work is inspired by the Baroque cantata tradition, reflected both in its structure and instrumentation: narration, countertenor, a small choir, two violins, cello, percussion, and theorbo.In collaboration with Swedish Music Spring. The concert is produced in partnership with the Society of Swedish Composers.

Monday at Last with overtone singing

In Monday at Last, violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and cellist Kati Raitinen invite guest artists to perform both newer and older music. The guests this time are Swedish pianist Peter Friis Johansson and South African violist, composer, and overtone singer Gareth Lubbe.We get to hear the incredible possibilities and resources of the voice in Lubbe's Miniatures, where he uses a special singing technique to create a whole range of resonant overtones. It's a completely unique sound world that conveys the feeling of something magical and primal.British-American composer Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979) was a highly skilled violist and a pioneer among female composers. Her Morpheus for viola and piano was first performed in 1918 at Carnegie Hall and was her first major success. After Schnittke's both wild and contemplative string trio, and Mozart's lively Duo, "Finally Monday" concludes with the rarely performed ecstatically charged piano quartet by Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä in a late romantic style.