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GUNNAR SVENSSON<br />
FREDERIK MAGLE:<br />
C,4CILIEKANTATE<br />
BIRGITTE EWERLOE SOPRAN<br />
TUVA SEI,4IVIINGSEN, ALT<br />
JORGEN DITLEVSEN, BAS<br />
KLAUS JERNDORFF, PIANO<br />
PIGEKORET PULS<br />
DAN E. NIELSEN:<br />
C,4CILIEMESSE<br />
BENJAMIN BRITTEN:<br />
C,4CILIEHYMNE<br />
FELIX<br />
MENDELSSOHN-<br />
BARTHOLDY:<br />
<strong>HEAR</strong> <strong>MY</strong> <strong>PRAYER</strong><br />
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Frcclcrik Mrglc
Frederik Magle (te71 - )<br />
Kantate til Sankt Cecilies dag iTekst: Iben Krogsdal)<br />
Cantata for St Cecilia's Day (Text: Iben Krogsdal)<br />
IllHelligeCccilie,<br />
| 2 I Hven'r kan splitte sig selvt<br />
[ 3 ] Ingens bgnner er uhprte.<br />
| 4 I Cecilie, du omvendte blinde til tro.<br />
| 5 I Livet er sidan her pijorden,<br />
[6lOgstadigidag,<br />
Soliste r/soloists:<br />
Birgitte Ewerltif. sopran/soprano Tuva Semmingsen. alt/alto Jorgen Ditlevsen, bas/bass<br />
Ceciliekoret .Pigekoret Puls/The girls' choir PULS<br />
Orkeste r/orchestra:<br />
Ossip Frolov, floite/flute Vladimir Landa, violin l/violin I<br />
Peter Halaburt, obo I/oboe I Anton Lasine, violin Il/violin II<br />
Radi Radev. obo Il/oboe II Kenneth McFarlan. bratsch/viola<br />
Carina Nyberg, klarinet/clarinet Peter Tiinshoff, cello/cello<br />
Enrilie Deichmann, fagot/bassoon Pernille Rgmer, kontrabas/double bass<br />
BenteErreboNielsen,trompet/trumpet KlausJerrrdorff,klaver/piano<br />
V:erket blev bestilt af Gunnar Svensson til uropfgrelse 22. november 1998.<br />
The work was commisioned by Gunnar Svensson to be given its first perfbrmance on 22<br />
November 19913.
Dan E. Nielsen (19s6 - )<br />
Missa Sanctae Caeciliae<br />
[7 ] Kyrie<br />
| 8 I Gloria<br />
[ 9 ] Credo<br />
!01 Sanctus<br />
! l l Benedictus<br />
[2] Agnus Dei<br />
SoList/soloist: Anders Skovsted, tenor<br />
Vrerket er tilegnet Creciliekoret - uropfgrt 16. november 1995.<br />
The work is dedicated to the C:eciliekoret - first performed on 16 November 1 995.<br />
Benjamin Britten (.t 9 t3 -1 6)<br />
tl3l A Hymn to Saint Cecilia<br />
Solister/so Loi st,s:<br />
Cecil Krarup Vedstesen, sopran I/soprano I Helle Nielsen, sopran Il/soprano ll<br />
Eva Nyboe Petersen, alt/alto . Carsten Rysgaard, tenor' Rasmus Gerdes, bas/bass<br />
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (ltj09-,+7)<br />
ll4l Motet "Hear my Prayer"<br />
SoLi.st/sobist: Signe Hyldgard, sopran/soprano ' Klaver/piano: Klaus Jerndorff<br />
De tre fbrste varker er af komponisterne tilegnet skytshelgeninden Cecilie, det sidste er tilegnet<br />
hende af de ud0vende.<br />
The flrst three works have been dedicated by their composers to Cecilia, the patron saint; the last<br />
is dedicated to her b1 the performing singers.<br />
Cieciliekoret . Dirigent/conduclor: Gunnar Svensson
Folo: Frrnz Hcnrikscn<br />
Gunnar Svensson<br />
Gunnar Svensson, fbdt 5. decernber 1935. har studeret nrusikpir:dagogik ved Dannrarks<br />
Liererh6jskole, incl. studierejser til Llngarn. og efier kantoreksamen i Kpbenhavn knrledelse r<br />
England. hvor han fulgte arbejdet i kor sorn King's College. Cambridge, New College. Oxfirrd. og<br />
the London Chorale. Dirigent tbr koret. soln synger pir nierva:rende CD, siden 1 972. Tillige er<br />
GunnerrSvenssonorganistogharCD-indspilletdanskromantiskorgelnrusik(DACOCDzl3lo<br />
445) samt fiansk barok: Couperins to orgelnresser (DACOCD -5 l4 og -5 l-5).
Foto: Jorn BriBnd!onrcl<br />
Fot): Hrns l(n-gco Brun<br />
De medvirkende i Ovrigt:<br />
Solister:<br />
Birgitte Ewerliif<br />
Birgitte Ewerlof er efier studier ved KObenhavns Universitet<br />
(fi'ansk. dansk. nrusik og kristendomskundskab) uddannet sorn<br />
san-uer pir Det kgl. danske Musikkonservatoriurn hos Bodil<br />
Gobel og Birgit Bastian.<br />
Diploneksamen I987 og debut fra konservatoriets solistklasse<br />
l 989.<br />
Videregiende studier hos bl.a. Anna Reynolds (Tyskland) og<br />
Sena Jurinac (Wien).<br />
Virksornhed sonr solist ved liedafiener, oratorieopf'prelser og<br />
kirkekoncelter.<br />
Siden 1988 har Birgitte Ewerlof veret ftrst engageret som<br />
operasanger ved Det kgl. Teater.<br />
T[va Semmingsen<br />
Fodt 13. januar 1975 uden fbr Oslo. Norge.<br />
Uddannet pi Nor-ees Musikhggskole hos prof'essol Ingrid<br />
Bjoner. Studerer nu pi Opelaakademiet hos prof'essor Kirsten<br />
Buhl-Mdller.<br />
Tidligere optraden med bl.a. Oslo Filharmoniske Orkester'<br />
Bergen. Filharrnoniske Orkester og Den Norske Operas<br />
Orkester. Har givet koncerter i Tyskland, Frankrig. lsrael.<br />
Slovenien m.rn.<br />
Hendes store interesse fbr balokmusik har fbrt til san.ralbejde<br />
med Kenneth Weiss. Shalev Ad-El. Oslo Barokorkester o-u<br />
Concerto Copenhagen.<br />
Engagementer n.red Bach Collegiurn Leipzig under<br />
n.rusikf'estivalen i Bad Kissingen sommeren 1999 sarlrt en<br />
rrkke oratolieil'enrfblelser i Skandi navien.<br />
Debut pir Det kgl. Teater efieriret 1999 son Chelubino i<br />
Figarcs Bryllup.
Jorgen Ditlevsen<br />
Uddannet ved bl.a. Det kgl. danske Musikkonservatorium.<br />
Operaakademiet og prii,at hos Anna Reynolds i Bayleuth.<br />
Har otie vrcret solist i Dannralk som i Lrdlandet.<br />
Tidli,eere medlem af Det kgl. Operakor. nu<br />
Radiokanr nrelkoret.<br />
Desuden ansilt soln organist veci Mariakirken. Kobenhavn.<br />
Lrrer i sang vecl Det kgl. danske Musikkonselvatoriunr.<br />
Klaus Jerndorff<br />
Klaus JelndorfT er pianist og organist. f'odt den 1 6. september<br />
l9-12. pii Flederiksbelg. Har f'rlrst r.jort karriere som<br />
konceltpianist ettef uddannelse hos organist og kapelnrester<br />
Jolrn Flandsen sanlt hos pianist og komponist Hern.ran D.<br />
Koppel ved Det kgl. danske Musikkonservatoriunr i<br />
Kpbenhavn og vidunderlige Naclil Boulan-rer i Paris. Eftel sin<br />
debutkoncert nlrdtog Klaus Jerndorif Kunstklitikernes<br />
iereslecat. Klaus Jerndortl hal vlcret vidt omkrin,e sonr solist<br />
os kamnrermusiker rred violinisten Per Bokelund i USA.<br />
Mexico. Peru. Argentina. Australien.<br />
Klaus Jerndorff havde en tul.lg arv at l(rtie sonr den dengan-u<br />
eneste mandlige efierkorlrler i kunstnertumilien Jerndorfl. 3<br />
kunstrralere pii rad og rrkke. Heldigvis havde fiu'far August<br />
JerndortT gitiet sig nred Betty Matthisru-Hansen. datter 01'<br />
clomorganisten i Roskilde. sir at Klaus Jerndoltl'kunne git<br />
musikervejen. Da det er svlcl't at leve som pianist i Danmark.<br />
kom Klaus Jerndolff ind pii konservatrxiets videre,sirende<br />
kirkemusikalske linie. og da han var firr gantmel til<br />
solistklassen. fik han lov at af,slutte nred musikpiedagogisk<br />
eksanren i or-rrel og horeltcre. Klaus JerndorfT nyder i sit<br />
daglige virke at have studeret hos sir sbre kapaciteter sonr<br />
Finn ReitT. Finn Hoftdin-q. Finn Videro og Leif Kayser. Nadra<br />
Boulan-uer niiede han lige at tir et kurstts i konposition hos. da<br />
1
hrrn r itr cn nlcgct garlltllcl tlrttte ;lit (.)0<br />
ir. tttctl itllc- slnc<br />
runtlscr rrcr i bchokl. L,t dc' jligr Cottrltcl Christcnsetl tltse l i<br />
Ansgalkilkcn p:r Magcr c.i og Cltcilieinstittlttets kor.<br />
C'luci l ickorcl. undct lcde'lse' af CiLrrlnat Sl cttssott har.ilr:r nl igt<br />
-elltdc ll Klaus Jct ntkrril.s clrlc sorll orgilllist og re lletitor'<br />
l,ise-l\larie Thrane<br />
Korc'ts sungpitrlauog. Lisc-Marie Thrane. dipltlnleksitttle n i<br />
srng olt \lngpiu(lirgogik liir tttttsikkonset l'ittot iet. llcrer vcd<br />
S.jlcl lards kirkcnrLrsikskolc og Cicci I ieinstitLlttet. ll'e!' lance<br />
san!:cr og sangllutlago!.<br />
LisestcnrDigl kor- Pigckorct Pttls tgirls chotr)<br />
s<br />
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Ligestemmigt kor, Pigekoret Puls (girls' choir);<br />
Sarah Anderson .Julie Scott Georgsen .Louise Hvidberg.Mette Hvidberg Fie Ivelsen<br />
Pia Kierby Jensen . Caroline Jorgensen . Elli Kappclgaard . Nanna LindclLtist<br />
Malie-Louise Neiclel Olsen . Maria Rrsnrussetr . Siuu Rasrttusset't<br />
Stif tet 1993 af Mre Korp Jensen. sorrr el uddannet pii Det kgl. danske MLrsikkonservutoriunr sonr<br />
organist og korlecier. Licrerstuderendc Mona Bor',u er knyttet til ko|et sonr leder og<br />
akkonrpagniltor. Korets h.jemsted er Nazaret Kirke pii Ostefbro. her synger kot'et ved koncertcr'og<br />
andre sicIIi ge arran gementer.<br />
Creciliekoret:<br />
S t t p n t t t t' t /.s t t p ru t t r t.s :<br />
Tanil Bro-Jlargensen<br />
AIice Christollersen<br />
Minna Ekr<br />
Signe Hyldgarcl<br />
Dolthe Jiils<br />
Christina Kloglr<br />
Helle Nielsen<br />
Stine Rasrt.russen<br />
Anne Munch Terkelsen<br />
Cecil KrarLrp Vedstesen<br />
B u.s.s e r/ I x t.s.s t'.t :<br />
Allan Diehl<br />
Rasmus Cerdes<br />
Anders Skovsted<br />
AIte r/u ltos:<br />
Vibeke Eir<br />
Ruth Horak<br />
Ditte Johansen<br />
Eva Nyboe Petersen<br />
Stine Romer PoLrlsen<br />
Gunvor Krarup Vedstesen<br />
Irene Vester<br />
T2tutra rhctutr.s:<br />
Jonus Glnrkjltr<br />
Peter Jorgensen<br />
Carsten Rysgaard<br />
Moften Skovsaald<br />
F()l(): Frrrr flcrrilscn<br />
Andcrs Skovstccl .AIlan Diehl . Rasrnus Gcrdc's
Hvem var Cacilie?<br />
Ifglge gammel tradition er hun skytshelgeninde for sangere og musikere. Cacilie var en ung<br />
jomfru i det gamle Rom, som pi sin bryllupsdag omvendte sin mand, Valerianus, og senere sin<br />
svoger, Tiburtius, til den kristne tro. Det var i en tid, hvor man fbrfulgte de kristne, si de blev alle<br />
tre domt til doden. valerianus og Tiburtius blev halshugget, mens cacilie skulle pines til dode.<br />
Hun blev muret inde i en badstue, som blev overophedet, si der blev si hedt som i en bageovn.<br />
Den voldsomme varme skulle ombringe hende. Til alles forblofTelse gik hun tre dggn syngende<br />
omkring, trods den hgje temperatur. Det blev se besluttet, at hun skulle ud igen afbadstuen og<br />
halshugges. Men bgdlen kunne ikke - trods ihterdigt forspg - skille hovedet fra hendes hals. Tre<br />
dage efter d6de hun af sine lidelser.<br />
Der findes lorskellige beretninger om Cecilies sidste dage, den ene mere grufuld end den anden.<br />
Hendes grav menes fundet i Roms katakomber.<br />
Crecilieforeninger<br />
I mange byer, ogsi i Kobenhavn, har der eksisteret C:tcilieforeninger, en musikfbrening, der<br />
arrangerede koncerter og fejrede Cecilie den 22. november, som er Cacilies dag. Det er ej heller<br />
ualmindeligt, at kor opkaldes efter sangernes skytshelgeninde. Mogens Wijldike dirigerede, fBr<br />
han stiftede Kobenhavns Drengekor, "cecilie-koret" - det kor er forlsngst oplost. Et kor i Arhus<br />
kalder sig i dag Ceciliakoret.<br />
Creciliekoret. Kgbenhavn. 1999<br />
Ceciliekoret, som synger pi nerverende CD, blev stiftet 19'12 knyttet til Filips Kirke pi<br />
foranledning af kirkens davzerenede menighedsrAd. Filipperkoret hed det og begyndte som<br />
drengekor i overensstemmelse med den tradition, at drenge synger til gudstjeneste om spndagen.<br />
Men allerede iret efter blev der optaget piger i koret; mange 6r var forholdet det, at var der 20<br />
piger, var der 5 drenge. Koret sang ved gudstjenester og koncerter. Som tiden gik, blev drengene<br />
og pigerne voksne - koret blev til et blandet kor. Nu afdode Gunnar Haastrup-Vig bad i 1979 koret<br />
opf6re Hlindels Messias ved to koncerter. Han Onskede, dette v:erk i hans levetid skulle opf'@res<br />
pi Amager af et Amagerkor; han betalte, hvad det kostede. Og det skete - hans opfordring blev<br />
optakt til en rakke tilbagevendende Messias'er. Siden kom ogsi Johannespassionen pi korets<br />
repertoire tilligemed Bach-kantater som "Christ lag in Todesbanden" (I dodens bind vor Frelser<br />
16) og "Ein'f'este Burg ist unser Gott" (Vor Gud, han er si last en borg). I 1994 ophorte
samarbejdet med Filips Kirkes menighedsrid, og koret tog sit nuverende navn. Disse vaerker er<br />
blandt dem, der har veret optgrt af Caciliekoret:<br />
John Rutters Magnificat - med radiotransmission - 1994,<br />
' Haydns Ceciliemesse i Filips Kirke 1995,<br />
Dan E. Nielsens Missa Sanctae Caeciliae for solo og blandet kor a cappella uropfEtrt samme iir i<br />
Kong Hikons Kirke,<br />
Haydns Skabelsen 1996, i Mariakirken og Sankt Anne Kirke,<br />
' To uropforelser 1997: Dan E. Nielsens Messe pi Dansk fbr blandet kor a cappella, og - med<br />
tilskud fra Sonning-Fonden - oratoriet "Den fortabte Spn" af guldalderkomponisten Johan Adam<br />
Krygell (1 835-1915) i Vor Frelsers Kirke,<br />
Purcells Cecilieode ( 1683), Brittens C:tciliehymne og Ravels Ronde pA Thorvaldsens museum<br />
samme ir,<br />
J.S. Bachs Johannespassion i Christiansborg Slotskirke 1998.<br />
Frederik Magles Caciliekantate uropfort pi Glyptoteket samme 5,r.<br />
Alle koncerter dirigeret af Gunnar Svensson.<br />
De fgrste korrejser - og den seneste.<br />
I I 979 fandt fgrste korrejse sted - den gik til Fer6erne, koncerter i Klaksvig og Thorshavn.<br />
1 980 rejste koret til Saarland og opf-Orte Gades Elverskud pi konservatoriet i Saarbri.icken -<br />
samarbejdet med Klaus Jerndorff begyndte med denne rejse.<br />
En indbydelse fra musikchef'en ved Peterskirken f@rte til, at koret i I 9U3 kom til Rom og Assisi.<br />
Oslo, Trondheim, Lincoln, Kalmar, Bremen, Hannover, Warszawa, Stuttgdrt, Freiburg, Salzburg,<br />
Wien, Menton, Verona har vrret mil for korets koncerttourn6er, sidst var det Sankt Petersborg,<br />
Ceciliekoret rejste til ijuni 1999, afslutningskoncert i universitetets festsal Sankt Hans alten - og<br />
efterfplgende sejltur pii floden Neva.
?li.<br />
Frederik Magle. t'odt 17. l.pril 1977 i Stubbekobing. hvot'<br />
hlus t:u' vnl organist. Som barn viste han konrposittlriske<br />
evner - til hans tblste klaverstykker skrev fadelen noderne -<br />
Fr-ederik havcie ikke llcrt denr endnu. Fredelik Magle har'<br />
studeret kolnposition hos Ib Norholm og LeifThybo.<br />
I l98ll opf'ortes luns ntinimusical "Et julebarn" og<br />
adventskantaten "Vi el bange" af l (X) optltdende i en stopfitld<br />
G ru ndt v i gs k i lke.<br />
I Ri-gas clomkirke urcpf'orte Frederik Magle 1993 sin<br />
olgelsymtirni "Let there be light". og sin LEGO-titnt{si fbr<br />
klaver og ol'kestel'har han CD-indspillet nred Londttt.tf<br />
ilhrrmonikerne under David Parry.<br />
I kulturbyirret I996 blev Frederik Ma-sle bedt om at skrive sin<br />
julekantate "Et nyfodt baln fbl evi,shed Gud".<br />
For tiden arbejder han pir sin tlalste syrltbni.<br />
Dan E. Nielsen. f'odt l.l. december' | 956. har studeret<br />
musikvidenskab ved universitetet o,u orgel hos Jens E.<br />
Christensen. Som konrponist el han autodidakt. har<br />
konrponeret en del fbr orgel. nrigle klavervlerker o-u fbr kor<br />
udover Missa Sanctae Caeciliae ogsit Messe pit Dansk. som<br />
Cieciliekoret uroptl,trte i Vor Frelsers Kilke den 6. maj 1997<br />
Iben Krogsdal. f'odt l3.juli I967. billedkunstner. cand.phil. r<br />
religionsvidenskab. Salmedigter.<br />
Om vrerkerne:<br />
Kantate til Sankt Ciccilies dag. komponeret af Frederik Magle.<br />
Gunnar Svensson onskede i l99tl. at Clcciliekorets koncert pir Crcilies dag det irr skulle runtnte<br />
en uroptorelse. Alet f'or havcle han hort Flederik Magles julekantate "Et nyfbdt barn lbr evi-qhed<br />
Gud". da dette blev opfirrt ved en koncert i Messiaskirken. Han besluttede at bestille en Cicciliekantate<br />
hos Flederik Magle. Inridleltid skulle kantaten have en tekst. og Gunnar Svensstl.t fandt.<br />
det kunne vrre nrorson.lt at lii en helt ny tekst sat i nrusik. En af san-eet'ne i kolet gav ham den icli<br />
at sporge lben Krogscial. Gunnar Svensson var bekendt nred en del af hendes digteliske prodLrktion
lben Krogsdal sagdeja til at digte teksten, og Frederik Magle accepterede at sette den i musik.<br />
Missa Sanctae Caeciliae. komponeret af Dan E. Nielsen.<br />
Gunnar Svensson blev bekendt med Dan E. Nielsens komponistvirksomhed gennem nogle<br />
vierker, som komponisten fiemfgrte ved en orgelkoncert i Vor Frelsers Kirke. Pd det tidspunkt var<br />
samme komponist i f:erd med at skrive en messe tbr solo og blandet kor. Gunnar Svensson syntes<br />
om musikken. Dan E. Nielsen kaldte sit verk "Missa Sanctae Caeciliae", og han dedicerede det til<br />
Ceciliekoret. Sangerne i koret kom til at holde af tonesproget, som indstuderingen skred frem.<br />
Det var med gliede. koret gav denne komposition sin t'Orste opfgrelse. og det var fgrste gang.<br />
koret havde en uropfgrelse pd sit repertoire.<br />
A H1,nin to Saint Cecilia, komponeret af Benjamin Britten.<br />
Komponisten. 1913-76, var som komponist. pianist og dirigent en central skikkelse i nyere<br />
engelsk musik. Blev iste r kendt for sit "War Requiem" fra 1961 og for det musikp:rdagogiske<br />
verk "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra", 1 946. "A Hynrn to Saint Cecilia" er blot en af<br />
de mange kompositioner. som er tilegnet hende, som beskytter og inspirerer sangere og musikere.<br />
Det kan anfBres, at Henry Purcell sidst i 1 6-hundredetallet skrev et nyt vrerk hvert lr til Sankt<br />
Caecilies dag, og slir man op i et musikleksikon, er rrkken af Cecilievierker uendelig.<br />
Motetten: Hear my Prayer. komponeret af Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.<br />
Komponisten, I U09-47, regnes sammen med Fr. Chopin og Robert Schumann for den rornantiske<br />
klassicismes hovedskikkelse. Han var en fiemragende dirigent, hvis store fbrtjeneste var, at han<br />
gjorde J.S. Bach kendt derved, at han opfprte Matthauspassionen. Bach var efier sin dpd giet i<br />
glemmebogen, Mendelssohn genopdagede han. Mendelssohn levede og opholdt sig i Leipzig.<br />
hvor han I 843 lagde grunden til et musikkonservatorium. Blandt lererne her var danske Niels W.<br />
Gade.<br />
Rekken af Mendelssohn kompositioner er enorm - flest kender harn miske. tbrdi han i vrrket<br />
"En skersommernatsdrpm" skrev Cen bryllupsmtrrch, som mange brudepar har gledet sig over at<br />
hgre som udgangsmusik efter deres vieise.<br />
Man kunne kalde motetten, det her handler om. Caciliemusik med tanke pi C6cile Jeanrenaud.<br />
Mendelssohns hustru - teksten er fra Davids 55. Salme i Det samle Testamente.<br />
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Soloists:<br />
Birgitte Ewerliif<br />
After studies at the University of Copenhagen (French, Danish, <strong>Music</strong> and Religious Knowledge)<br />
educated as a singer ar rhe Royal Danish Academy of <strong>Music</strong>, taught by Bodil Gobel and Birgit<br />
Bastian.<br />
Diploma exam 1987 and ddbut from the soloist class of the Academy 1989.<br />
Further studies with, among others, Anna Reynolds (Germany) and Sena Jurinac (Vienna).<br />
Soloist at lieder recitals, oratorio performances and church ooncerts.<br />
Since 1988 permanent engagement as an opera singer at the Royal Theatre.<br />
Thva Semmingsen<br />
Born on 13 January 1975 outside Oslo, Norway.<br />
Educated at the Norwegian Academy of <strong>Music</strong> with professor Ingrid Bjoner. Currently studying at<br />
the Opera Academy, Copenhagen, with prof'essor Kirsten Buhl-Mgller.<br />
Previous appearances with, among others, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic<br />
orchestra and the orchestra of the Norwegian opera. Has given concerts in Germany,<br />
France, Israel, Slovenia, etc.<br />
Her intense interest in baroque music has led to cooperation with Kenneth Weiss, Shalev Ad-El,<br />
the Oslo Baroque Orchestra and Concerto Copenhagen.<br />
Engagements with the Bach Collegium Leipzig during the music festival in Bad Kissingen in the<br />
summer of 1999, as well as a number of oratorio performances in Scandinavia.<br />
Ddbut at the Royal Theatre, autumn 1999, as Cherubino in the Marriage of Figaro.<br />
J6rgen Ditlevsen<br />
Educated at, among other things, the Royal Danish Academy of <strong>Music</strong>, the Opera Academy and<br />
privately with Anna Reynolds in Bayreuth.<br />
Frequent soloist appearances in Denmark as well as abroad-<br />
Previously member of the Royal Opera Choir, at present the Chamber Choir of the Danish<br />
Broadcasting Corporation.<br />
In addition employed as organist at Mariakirken in Copenhagen.<br />
Teacher of singing at the Royal Danish Academy of <strong>Music</strong>.<br />
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Klaus.Ierndorff<br />
Klaus JerndorfT, pianist and organist, was born on l6 September 1932 in Frederiksberg. Initially,<br />
he made a ca.reer as a concert pianist after studying with John Frandsen, the organist and<br />
conductor, Herman D. Koppel, the pianist and composer, at the Royal Danish Academy of <strong>Music</strong>,<br />
as well as mervellous Nadia Boulanger in Paris. After his ddbut he received the Art Critics'<br />
Honortry Award. He has travelled widely as a soloist and as a chamber musician with Per<br />
Bokelund, the violinist, in the U.S.A., Mexico, Peru, Argentina and Australia. In terms of<br />
heredity, Klaus Jerndorff faced a severe challenge as the then sole male descendant of the<br />
Jerndorff artist family of three painters in unbroken succession. Fortunately, his paternal<br />
grandfather, August Jerndorff, had married Betty Matthison-Hansen, daughter of the cathedral<br />
organist in Roskilde, so that Klaus was able to embark upon the musician's profession. As it is<br />
hard to make a living as a pianist in Denmark, he entered the advanced church music course of<br />
the Academy of <strong>Music</strong>, and being too old for the soloist class, he was allowed to graduate ln<br />
<strong>Music</strong> Pedagogy, majoring in organ and ear training. In his everyday activities, Klaus Jerndorff<br />
enjoys the benefit of having studied under outstanding professionals such as Finn Reiff, Finn<br />
Hpffding, Finn Videro and Leif Kayser. With Nadia Boulanger he just managed to get a course of<br />
composition when she was a very old lady of 90 yet in full possession of her mental taculties. A<br />
splendid Conrad Christensen organ in Ansgarkirken in Migevej and the Choir of the Cecilia<br />
Institute, Ied by Gunnar Svensson, frequently profit from Klaus Jerndorff's talent as an organist<br />
and chorus master.<br />
Lise-Marie Thrane<br />
Lise-Marie Thrane, singing teacher of the Choir.<br />
Diploma exam in singing and singing pedagogy from the Royal Danish Academy of <strong>Music</strong>.<br />
Teacher at the Church <strong>Music</strong> School of Zealand.<br />
Free lance singer and teacher of singing.<br />
The girls'choir Puls, fbunded in 1993 by Mie Korp Jensen, who has graduated from the Royal<br />
Danish Academy of <strong>Music</strong> as an organist and choir conductor. Student teacher Mona Borg is<br />
attached to the choir as choirmaster and accompanist. The domicile of the choir is the<br />
Nazarethkirken in Osterbro, here the choir sings at concerts and special alTangements.
Cecilia <strong>Music</strong><br />
Who was Cecilia?<br />
According to ancient tradition, she is the patron saint of singers and musicians.<br />
Cecilia was a young virg:in in ancient Rome, who on her wedding day converted her husband<br />
Valerranus, and later also her brother-in-law Tiburtius. to the Chdstian faith. This was a period<br />
when Christians were persecuted. so the three of them were condemned to death. Valerianus and<br />
Tiburtius were beheaded. whereas Cecilia was to be tortured to death. She was immured in a<br />
Roman bath. which was overheated to become as hot as a furnace. The fierce heat was intended to<br />
put her to death. To everybody's amazement she kept walking about singing for three days and<br />
nights despite the towering temperature. It was then decided to remove her from the bath to be<br />
beheaded. In spite of persistent endeavours, however, the executioner failed to sever her head<br />
from her neck. Three days later she died fiom her sufTerings.<br />
Various accounts of Cecilia's last days are extant, one more horrifying than the other. Her tomb is<br />
believed to have been discovered in the catacombs of Rome.<br />
Cecilia Societies<br />
In many cities, as in Copenhagen, a Cecilia Society has existed, a musical society ananging<br />
concerts and commemorating Cecilia on November the 22nd, which is St Cecilia's Day.<br />
Nor is it uncommon tbr choirs to be named after the patron saint of singers. Befbre founding the<br />
Copenhagen Boys'Choir, Mogens Wcildike used to conduct the "C:tcilie-koret", now long<br />
disbanded. Today in Arhus a choir calls itself the Ceciliakoret.<br />
The Caciliekoret, Copenhagen 1999<br />
The Ceciliekoret recorded on the present CD was founded in 1972 to be associated with Filips<br />
Kirke, at the instance of the then parochial church council. The Filipperkoret was its designation<br />
at the time, and it began as a boys' choir in accordance with the tradition that boys are to sing at<br />
Sunday service. But already during the fbllowing year girls were admitted to the choiri fbr many<br />
years the ratio was 20 girls to 5 boys. The choir sang at services and at concerts.<br />
As time went by, the boys and girls grew up - the choir grew into a mixed-voices choir.<br />
In 1979 the late Gunnar Haastrup-Vig requested the choir to perform Handel's Messiah at two<br />
concerts. He wanted this work to be performed in Amager by an Amager choir within his lifetime;<br />
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he was prepzLred to lbot the bitl. And this did come about - his request provided the impetus for a<br />
series of recurrent Messiah concerts. Subsequently also the St John Passion entered the repertoire<br />
of the choir, together with Bach cantatas such as "Christ lag in Todesbanden" and "Ein' feste Burg<br />
ist unser Gott".<br />
In 1994 the cooperation with the parochial church council at Filips Kirke ceased, and the choir<br />
assumed its present name. The fbllowing works are among those that have been perfbrmed by the<br />
Caeciliekoret:<br />
John Rutter's Magnilicat, broadcast 1994;<br />
Haydn's Missa Sanctae Caeciliae in Filips Kirke 1995r<br />
Dan E. Nielsen's Missa Sanctae Caeciliae fbr solo and mixed voices a cappella, first performance,<br />
the same year in Kong Hikons Kirke;<br />
Haydn's The Creation, 1996, in Mariakirken and St Annae Kirke;<br />
Two first performances. 1997: Dan E. Nielsen's Mass in Danish fbr mixed voices a cappella and,<br />
subsidized by the Sonning Foundation, the oratorio "The Prodigal Son" by the golden-age<br />
composer Johan Adam Krygell (1 835-1915) in Vor Frelsers Kirke;<br />
Purcell's Ode for St Cecilia's Day (1683), Britten's A Hymn to St Cecilia and Ravel's Ronde in<br />
the Thorvaldsens Museum in the same year;<br />
J.S.Bach's St John Passion in Christiansborg Slotskirke 1998;<br />
Frederik Magle's Cantata for St Cecilia's Day in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in the same year.<br />
All concerts conducted by Gunnar Svensson.<br />
The first concert tours - and the latest one:<br />
1979 saw the flrst tour ofthe choir, to the Faroe Islands with concerts in Klaksvig and Thorshavn.<br />
In 1980 the choir visited Saarland, presenting Gade's Elverskud ('Elf-Shot') at the<br />
Konservatorium in Saarbrucken - the cooperation with Klaus Jerndorff began with this tour.<br />
An invitation tiom the music director ofSt Peter's Church caused the choir to come to Rorne ano<br />
Assisi in 1983.<br />
Oslo, Trondheim, Lincoln, Kalmar, Bremen. Hannover. Warsaw, Stuttgart, Freiburg, Salzburg,<br />
Vienna, Menton. Verona have been the destinations of the choir's concert tours; most recently it<br />
was St Petersburg that the Ceciliekoret travelled to in June 1999, the concluding concert taking<br />
place in the Ceremonial Hall of the University on Midsummer Eve - with a cruise on the Neva to<br />
follow.<br />
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On the works:<br />
Cantata for St Cecilia's Day, composed by Frederik Magle. In 1998, Gunnar Svensson wanted<br />
the CEeciliekoret's concert for St Cecilia's day to include a first perfbrmance. The preceding year<br />
he had heard Frederik Magle's Christmas Cantata, "A Newborn Babe before Eternity God",<br />
performed during a concert in Messiaskirken. He decided to commision a St Cecilia cantafa fiom<br />
Frederik Magle. The cantata was to be supplied with words, however, and Gunnar Svensson<br />
found it would be attractive to have an entirely new text set to music. One ofthe singers in the<br />
choir suggested the idea of asking Iben Krogsdal. Gunnar Svensson was familiar with part of her<br />
poetry.<br />
Iben Krogsdal consented to write the text, and Frederik Magle accepted the task of setting it to music.<br />
Missa Sanctae Caecilia, composed by Dan E. Nielsen.<br />
Gunnar Svensson became acquainted with Dan E. Nielsen's works as a composer through some<br />
pieces performed by the composer at an organ recital in Vor Frelsers Kirke. At the time, the<br />
composer was writing a mass fbr solo and mixed voices. Gunnar Svensson took a liking to the<br />
music. Dan E. Nielsen named his work 'Missa Sanctae Caeciliae', and he dedicated it to the<br />
Ceciliekoret. The singers came to cherish its tonal idiom as the rehearsals progressed. It was with<br />
pleasure that the choir gave this composition its first performance, and it was the first time for the<br />
choir to har e a l irst performance in its reperloire.<br />
A Hymn to Saint Cecilia, composed by Benjamin Britten.<br />
As a composer, pianist and conductor, Britten (1913-76) was a central figure in modern English<br />
music. He became known in particular for his 'War Requiem'fiom l96l and for the<br />
musicpedagogical work 'A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra', 1946. 'A Hymn to Saint<br />
Cecilia' is merely one of many compositions dedicated to the lady who protects and inspires<br />
singers and musicians. In the late 17th century Henry Purcell wrote a new work for St Cecilia's<br />
day every year, antl in any sizable tlictionary of music the entries for Cecilia works are practically<br />
innumerable.<br />
'Hear my Prayer', Motet, composed by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.<br />
Together with Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann, Mendelssohn (1809-47) is considered a<br />
key ligure of romantic classicism. He was an outstanding conductor, whose crowning achievement<br />
it was to mzrke Johann Sebastian Bach known by perfbrming the St Matthew Passion. After
his death, Bach had sunk into oblivion; Mendelssohn rediscovered him. Mendelssohn lived in<br />
Leipzig, where in 1 843 he founded an academy of music. Among its teachers was Niels W. Gade,<br />
the Danish composer.<br />
The array ofMendelssohn compositions is enormous presumably, most people know him because<br />
in his 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' he included the wedding march which many married<br />
couples have delighted in hearing as a postlude while leaving the church after their wedding.<br />
This motet might be called Cecilia music, with reference to C6cile Jeanrenaud, Mendelssohn's<br />
wife. The words derive from the 55th Psalm.<br />
Gunnar Svensson<br />
Gunnar Svensson, bom on 5 December 1935, studied <strong>Music</strong> Pedagogy at the Royal Danish<br />
School of Educational Studies, including a period of studies in Hungary, and having graduated as<br />
a precentor, he studied choral conducting in England, where he attended the practice of choirs<br />
such as King's College Choir, Cambridge, New College Choir, Oxford, and the London Chorale.<br />
He has been the condcutor of the choir heard on the present CD since 1972.<br />
Besides, Gunnar Svensson is an organist and has recorded CDs ofDanish romantic organ music<br />
(DACOCD 431 and445) as well as French baroque music: Couperin's two organ masses<br />
(DACOCD 514 and 515).<br />
Frederik Magle, born on 1'l April 1977 in Stubbekobing, where his father was organist. As child<br />
he evinced compositional talents for his first piano pieces his father wrote the notes Frederik<br />
had not yet leamt how to wdte music!<br />
Frederik Magle studied composition with Ib Ngrholm and LeilThybo. In 1988 his mini-musical<br />
'A Christmas Child' and the cantata for Advent, 'We Are Afraid', were performed by a l00-strong<br />
body in a crammed Grundtvigskirken.<br />
In the Cathedral of Riga in 1993, Frederik Magle gave the first perfbrmance of his organ<br />
symphony 'Let There be Light', and his LEGO Fantasy fbr piano and orchestra he has recorded<br />
on a CD with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by David Pany.<br />
In 1996, when Copenhagen was European City of Culture, Frederik Magle was requested to write<br />
his Christmas cantata 'A Newborn Babe before Eternity God'.<br />
Currently he is at work on his first symphony.
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Kantate til Sankt Cacilies Dag 1998<br />
Hellige Ctcilic, loft dit ansigt.<br />
Syng!<br />
Nu stejler lys i hodsonten.<br />
Morket brydes af din skonne sternme.<br />
HOr! Den stiEler klart mod himlens.lbning<br />
lngen er si fi-om som du, Crcilie.<br />
lngens bdn si dyb som dine bonner.<br />
Pi dil bryllupsdag du sang alene.<br />
stille i dit hjerte,<br />
kun for Herren.<br />
Hvcm kan splitte sig selv'l<br />
Hvem kan dcle sin krop?<br />
Hvem kan clske to l<br />
Du elskcde Valerianus.<br />
Han var ciin ungc brudgom.<br />
Men allerhojst. Crcilic.<br />
elskede du dog Gud.<br />
Med snublen i stemmen, du fibte<br />
Gud, jeg frygter ej min skebne!<br />
Giv min brudgom en trol<br />
Lard ham se, hvad jeg ser<br />
Lad ham fii, hvadjeg fik.<br />
HOrl Han riber forfardet:<br />
Dcl af din Lro. snuktr(e hustru,<br />
cLlcr jcg drcber digl<br />
Ingcns bonner er uhprte.<br />
ingens tro forgaves,<br />
ingens hib visner.<br />
hvor Gud viser sin storhcd.<br />
Cantata for St Cecilia's Day<br />
Holy Saint Cecilia, raise your visage.<br />
Sing I<br />
Nou,light rears up on the horizol.<br />
Darkncss is rcnt by your voice's beauty.<br />
Listcnl Shccr it soars (owards hellven's inlet.<br />
No onc is dcvout as you. Cecilia.<br />
No onc's prayer prolbund as those that you pra)<br />
On your wedding da_v you hyrnned all alone,<br />
Quictly in your hcart,<br />
Solcly thc Lord.<br />
Who can sever the self?<br />
Who can halve his own fiarne?<br />
Feel one love tbr two?<br />
Indeed you loved Valerianus.<br />
He was your youthful bridegroom.<br />
Yet greatest of all. Cecilia,<br />
Was your love of God.<br />
ln a faltering voice you cried out:<br />
God, I icar my desLinl'!<br />
Give m1, briclegroom a failhl<br />
Let him see whiit I scc.<br />
Let him gain what I gained.<br />
Listenl He shouts in teror:<br />
Shrre lour frith. rn1 heruriful ur[.<br />
Or I wiJl murder you I<br />
No one's prayers shall go unhccdcd.<br />
No one's taith is fltile,<br />
No one's hope shall 1ade.<br />
Where God's own grandeur shows forth.
Fra himlen, bevinget<br />
From heaven. on great wlngs<br />
med skinnende fjer<br />
With plumes of bright sheen<br />
sendte Gud sin engel. God sent out his angel.<br />
To paradiskroner havde han med, Two paradise crowns he had in his charge,<br />
den ene af rosel One was made of roses,<br />
den anden af liljer, The other of lilies,<br />
koner af liv, som aldrig forgir. Crowns of such life as never expires.<br />
Kun den, som vuren, kunne se dem. He only who was pure could see them.<br />
Og Valerianus And Valerianus<br />
sd. Saw.<br />
Cacilie, du omvendte blinde til tro.<br />
Du rebte: Kastjeres fortider bort!<br />
Bevabn jer med lyse viben!<br />
Omtring dig skete mirakler,<br />
og dine ojne spejlede<br />
alt det store, der skete.<br />
Den, som si dig,<br />
forstod.<br />
Livet er sidan pijorden,<br />
ikke som i himlen:<br />
Den onde truer,<br />
den gode lider.<br />
Du frygtede ej doden,<br />
og dine forfplgere hviskede:<br />
Si ungt et liv!<br />
Sa sterk en tro!<br />
Se, kvinden tor d0!<br />
Selv da du li<br />
som martyr<br />
med blpdende hals fra bgddelens hug.<br />
talte du udpint om tro,<br />
Cecilia, you converted blind ones to faith.<br />
You called out: Throw you past ages away!<br />
Fumish yourselves with bright weapons!<br />
Around you miracles happened,<br />
And your eyes showed the reflection<br />
Of all those awesome events.<br />
He who saw you<br />
Conceived.<br />
Life is in this way here on this earth,<br />
Not the way of heaven:<br />
The vile one threatens,<br />
The good one suffers.<br />
Death held no terror for you,<br />
And your persecutors spoke in whispers<br />
So young a life!<br />
So strong a faith!<br />
The woman braves death!<br />
Even when martyred you lay,<br />
Your neck running blood<br />
From the headsman's strokes,<br />
Agonized, you spoke of faith,
og dine ord<br />
vtr sagte musik,<br />
der genlpd,<br />
da du selv var borte<br />
Og stadig i dag,<br />
hvor stemmeme stiger,<br />
hvor takterne temmes,<br />
hvor rytmerne ryster<br />
de sirbare sind.<br />
Og stadig i dag,<br />
hvor toneme strommer,<br />
hvor flpjteme spiller,<br />
vi skimter dit ansigt<br />
i livets<br />
musik.<br />
Tekst: Iben Krogsdal<br />
Missa Sanctae Caeciliae<br />
Kyrie<br />
Kyrie eleison,<br />
Christe eleison,<br />
Kyrie eleison.<br />
Gloria<br />
Gloria in excelsis Deo<br />
et in tena pax hominibus<br />
bonae voluntatis.<br />
Laudamus te, benedicimus te,<br />
Adoramus te, glorificamus te.<br />
Spoke words that were<br />
Soft musical strains,<br />
Which echoed<br />
When you yourself was gone.<br />
And still to this day,<br />
When the voices ascend,<br />
When the measures are tamed,<br />
When rhythms are convulsing<br />
The sensitive minds.<br />
And still to this day,<br />
When the notes re flowing,<br />
When the flutes tre playing,<br />
Your face we discem<br />
In the music<br />
Of life.<br />
Text: Iben Krogsdal<br />
Trqnslation: Bent Sunesen<br />
Hene, fbrbm dig,<br />
Kriste, fbrbam dig,<br />
Hene, forbam dig.<br />
,;Ere vare Gud i det h6je -<br />
og fred pi jorden i mennesker,<br />
der har hans velbehag.<br />
Vi lover dig, vi velsigner dig,<br />
vi tilbeder dig, vi ophojer dig.
Gratias agimus tibi<br />
propter magnam gloriam tuam.<br />
Domine Deus. rex coelestis.<br />
Deus Pater omnipotens.<br />
Domine Fili unigenite.<br />
Jesu Kriste.<br />
Domine Deus.<br />
Agnus Dei, Filius Patris.<br />
Qui tollis peccata mundi,<br />
miserere nobis.<br />
Qui tollis peccata mundi,<br />
suscipe dcprecatlonem nostram.<br />
Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris,<br />
miserere nobis.<br />
Quoniam tu solus sanctus.<br />
Tu solus Dominus.<br />
Tu solus altissimus,<br />
Jesu Kdste<br />
cum sancto Spiritu<br />
in gloria Dei Patris.<br />
Amen.<br />
Credo<br />
Credo in unum Deum,<br />
patrem omnrpotentem,<br />
factorem coeli et teffae,<br />
r iribiliunt omnirrm et rnr i.ibilium.<br />
Et in ununr Dominum, Je sum Kristum,<br />
Filiurn Dei Unigenitum;<br />
et ex patre natum ante omnia saecula;<br />
Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine,<br />
Deum verum de Deo vcro;<br />
getritum, non tactum,<br />
consubstantialem Patri,<br />
per quem omnia facta sunt.<br />
Qui propter nos homines<br />
et propter nostram salutem<br />
Vi bringer dig taksigelse<br />
for din store herligheds skyld.<br />
Herrc. vor Cud. himmel"kt konge.<br />
almrgtige Gud Fader.<br />
Hene, du enbirrne Sgn.<br />
Jesus Kristus.<br />
Herre, vor Gud,<br />
Guds Lan, Faderens S0n.<br />
Du. som borttager verdens synder.<br />
forbarm dig over os.<br />
Du, som borttager verdens sYnder,<br />
modtag vor bon.<br />
Du. som sidder ved Faderens hgjre hind,<br />
forbarm dig over os.<br />
Thi du alene er hellig.<br />
Du alene er Hene.<br />
Du alene den hojeste.<br />
Jesus Kristus<br />
med den He lligind<br />
i Gud Faders herlighed.<br />
Amen.<br />
-<br />
Jeg tror pi dn Gud,<br />
den almegtige Fader,<br />
himmelens og jordens,<br />
alt det synliges og usynliges skaber.<br />
Og pe 6n Herre. Jesus Kristus,<br />
Guds enbirne SPn,<br />
som er f'odt af Faderen for alle tider,<br />
Gud af Gud, lys af lys,<br />
sand Gud af sand Gudl<br />
fbdt, ikke skabt,<br />
af samme vrsen som Faderen,<br />
ved hvem alt er skabt.<br />
Som for os mennesket<br />
og 1br vor frelse
descendit de coelis. steg ned fra Himlene<br />
Et incmatus est og blev kod<br />
de Spiritu sancto ved HelligSnden<br />
ex Maria Virgine, af jomfru Maria<br />
et homo factus est. og blev menneske.<br />
Crucifixus etiam pro nobis Som ogsi blev korsfestet for os<br />
sub Pontio Pilato, under Pontius Pilatus,<br />
passus et sepultus est. blev pint og begravet.<br />
Et resunexit tertia die, Og opstod pe tredjedagen<br />
secundum scripturas. if6lge skrifterne.<br />
Et ascendit in coelem: Og opfor til Himmels:<br />
sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris. sidder ved Faderens hpjre hind<br />
Et iterum venturus est cum gloria og skal kome igen i herlighed<br />
judicue vivos et mortuos for at dome levende og dpde,<br />
cujus regnis non erit finis. og der skal ikke vare ende pi hans rige<br />
Et in Spiritu Sanctum, Og pi Helligmden,<br />
Dominum et vivificantem, som er Hene, og som levendegor,<br />
qui ex Patre Filioque procedit; som udgir fra Faderen og Sdnnen,<br />
qui cum Patre et Filio og som tilbedes og eres<br />
simul adoratur et conglorificatur: tillige med Faderen og Sonnen,<br />
qui locutus est per prophetas. som har talt ved profeteme.<br />
Et in unam sanctam, catholicam Og pi 6n, hellig, almindelig<br />
et apostolicam ecclesiam. og apostolisk kirke.<br />
Confiteor unm baptisma Jeg bekender dn dib<br />
in remissionem peccatorum; til syndernes forladelse<br />
Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum, og forventer de dodes opstandelse<br />
et vitam venturi saeculi. og den komende verdens liv.<br />
Amen. Amen.<br />
Sanctus<br />
Smctus, sanctus, sanctus!<br />
Domine, Deus Sabaoth!<br />
Pleni sunt coeli et tena gloria tua:<br />
Hosianna in excelsis!<br />
Hellig, hellig, hellig er Henen<br />
Gud, harskarers hene!<br />
Himmelen og jorden er fuld af din herlighed!<br />
Hosianna i det hoje!
Benetlictus<br />
Velsignet vare har,<br />
qui venit in nomine Domini I som korrmer i Henens navn!<br />
Hosianna in excelsis! Hosianna i det h6je!<br />
Agnus Dei Du Guds lam,<br />
Agnus Dei, som berer verdens synder:<br />
Qui tollis peccata mundi: forbarm dig over osl<br />
miserere nobis. Du Guds lam.<br />
Agnus Dei, som berer verdens synder:<br />
qui tollis peccata mundi: forbam dig over osl<br />
miserere nobis. Du Guds lam,<br />
Agnus Dei, som brrer verdens synder:<br />
qui tollis peccata mundi:dona nobis pacem. giv os fred!<br />
A Hymn to Saint Cecilia<br />
llymne til Sankt Crcilie<br />
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In a garden shady this holy lady I en have rig pi skygger lod denne hellige tiue<br />
With reverent cadence and subtle psalm, med erei'ygtens tonefald og fint spundet salmemelodi<br />
Like a black swan as death came on ligesom en sort svane, nir doden stunder til,<br />
Poured lbrth her song in perfect calm: sin sang strgmme frem med fuldendt ro,<br />
And by ocean's margin this innocent virgin og ved havets bred byggede denne uskyldigejomfru<br />
Constructed an organ to enlarge her prxyer, et orgel op til at give sin bon lylde og bredde,<br />
And notes tremendous liom her great engine og megtige toner fra hendes vreldige verk<br />
Thundered out on the Roman air. tordnede ud og dvalede i den romerske luft.<br />
Blonde Aphrodite rose up excited, Den lyse Afrodite rejste sig betaget,<br />
Moved to delight by the melody, henfprt i fryd over velklangen;<br />
White as an orchid she rode quite nakcd hvid som en orkide lod hun sig glide ganske npgen<br />
In an oyster shell on top of the sea: i en rastersski{ pi havets flade;<br />
At sounds so entrancing the angels dancing ved lyde si fortryllende tridte englene i deres dans<br />
Came out of their tratrce into time again, ud af evighedens fortryllelse ind i tiden igen,<br />
And around the wicked in Hell's abysses og rundt om synderne i helvedes afgrunde<br />
The huge tlame flickered and eased their pain. blafredc kempeflammen til side og lindrede deres pine.<br />
Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions Hellige Cccilie, vis dig i syner<br />
To ull musicians, appear and inspire,<br />
alle musikerc, vis dig og indgiv dent din dntl:<br />
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Translated Daughte4 come down and startle<br />
Cotttposing mortals with immortaL fire.<br />
II<br />
I cannot grow:<br />
I have no shadow<br />
To run away from,<br />
I only play.<br />
I cannot enl<br />
There is no creature<br />
Whom I belong to,<br />
Whom I could wrong.<br />
I am defeat<br />
When it knows<br />
It can now do nothing<br />
By suffering.<br />
All you lived through,<br />
Dancing because you<br />
No longer need it<br />
For any deed.<br />
I shall never be<br />
Different. Love me.<br />
Blessed CeciLia, appear in visions etc. .....<br />
III<br />
O ear whose creatures cannot wish to tall,<br />
O calm of spaces unafraid of weight,<br />
Where Sonow is herself, forgetting all<br />
The gaucheness of her adolescent state,<br />
Where Hope within the altogether strange<br />
From every outwom image is released,<br />
And Dread bom whole and normal like a beast<br />
Fomandlede Datter, stig ned og overrask<br />
musik.skabende dr,4delige med udqdelig ild.<br />
il<br />
Jeg kan ikte vokse;<br />
jeg har ingen skygge<br />
at lobe bort fra,<br />
jeg spiller blot.<br />
Jeg kan ikke fejle;<br />
der er ingen skabning<br />
som jeg tilhorer,<br />
som jeg kunne krenke.<br />
Jeg er nederlaget,<br />
nar det ved, at det<br />
nu intet kan udrette<br />
ved at lide.<br />
Alt det, du gennemlevede,<br />
mens du dansede, fbrdi du<br />
ikke lrengere behgver det<br />
til nogen gerning.<br />
Jeg bliver aldrig<br />
anderledes. Elsk mig.<br />
Helliee Cxcilie. vit tlig i rtner ctt. .....<br />
III<br />
O, ore, hvis skabninger ikke kan Onske at falde,<br />
O, sindsro i vidder uden frygt for tyngde,<br />
hvor sorgen er helt sig selv og glemmer alt det,<br />
der er kejtet i dens endnu kun halvt modne tilstand,<br />
hvor hibet inden for det fuldstandig ukendte<br />
frigores fra ethvert udtjent sindbillede,<br />
og redslen fpdes hel og normal som et dyr
Into a world of truths that never change:<br />
Reslore our fallen day: O reanange.<br />
O dear white children casual as birds,<br />
Playing among the ruined languages,<br />
So small beside their large confusing words,<br />
So gay against the greater silences<br />
Of dreadful things you did: O hang the head,<br />
Impetuous child with the tremendous brain,<br />
O weep, child, weep, O weep away the stain,<br />
Lost innocence who wished your lover dead,<br />
Weep for the lives your wishes never led.<br />
O cry created as the bow of sin<br />
Is drawn across our lremhling violin.<br />
O ueep. child. O weep awr) lhe slain.<br />
O law drummed out by hearts against the still<br />
Long winter of our intellectual will.<br />
Thal what hrs been may never be again.<br />
O flute that throbs with the thanksgiving breath<br />
Of convalescents on the shores of death.<br />
O bless the freedom that you never chose.<br />
O trumpets that unguilded children blow<br />
About the fortress of their inner fbe.<br />
O weru lour tribulation like a rose.<br />
Blessed CeciLiq, appear in visions<br />
To all musicians, appear and inspire.<br />
Translated Daughter, come down and startle<br />
Composing mortaLs with immortal lire.<br />
Text: W.H. Auden (1907-73)<br />
ind i en verden af sandheder, der aldrig rndres:<br />
Cenopret vor faldne dag; O, bring ny orden.<br />
O, krre hvide bom, skodeslose som fugle,<br />
i jeres leg blandt de sgnderbrudte sprog,<br />
smi som I er ved siden af deres vidtfavnende, foruirrede ord,<br />
muntre som I er op imod de stpne tavsheder<br />
om de grufulde ting, I hu gjon; O, boj hovedet,<br />
ubesindige bm med den forferdende, megtige hjerne,<br />
O, grad, bam, grad, O, gred skampletten bort,<br />
tabte uskyld, som onskede, din elskede skulle do,<br />
gred over de liv, dine Onsker aldrig har ledet.<br />
O, rib, der bliver til, nir syndcns bue<br />
\lrlges over vor skrlvende riolin.<br />
O, gred, bam, grad, O, grad skampletten bort.<br />
O, lov, der trommes frem af hjefier op imod den tavse<br />
Iange vinter, som vor fbrstandsskabte vilje er.<br />
56 at det, der har vrret, aldrig skal vare igen.<br />
O, flOjte, der pulserer af det taksigelsens indedrat,<br />
der drages af syge i bedring pe dpdens kyst.<br />
O, velsign den frihed, som I aldrig har valgt.<br />
O, trompeter, som ubeskyttede bom bleser<br />
rundt om deres indre ljendes fastning.<br />
O, smykjer med jeres pr6velse som en rose.<br />
Hellige Cccilie, vis dig i syner<br />
for alle musikere, vis tlig og indgiv dem din dnd.<br />
Foruqndlede Datter, stig ned og overrask<br />
musikskabende d4delige med udOdelig ild.<br />
Oversettelse: Bent Sunesen
Hear my prayer Hgr min bon<br />
Hear my prayer, H6r min bpn,<br />
O God, incline Thine ear! O Gud, vend hid dit Ore.<br />
Thyself from my petition do not hide! Skjul dig ikke for min beden,<br />
Take heed to me! giv agt pri mig.<br />
Hear how in prayer I moum to Thee! Hpr hvordan i b6n jeg sukker til dig.<br />
Without Thee all is dark, Uden dig er alt mprkt -<br />
I have no guide. hajeg ingen ledelse.<br />
The enemy shouteth Fjenden rriber<br />
The godless come fast! De gudlgse kommer farende.<br />
Inequity, hatred upon me they cast! Uret, had kaster de mod mig.<br />
The wicked oppress me, De slette undertrykker mig.<br />
Ah where shall I fly? Ak, hvor skal jeg flygte hen?<br />
Perplexed and bewildered Rystet og forvildet,<br />
O God, her my cry! O Gud, h6r dog mit skrig.<br />
Recitativ:<br />
My heafi is sorely pained within my breast, Mit hjerte er i dyb smerte inde i mir bryst.<br />
My soul with deathly tenor is oppressed, Min sjtl er tynget afdpdelig skrak.<br />
Trembling and fearfulness upon me fall Skelven og redsel falder over mig,<br />
With honor overwhelmed, overveldet af gru -<br />
Lord hear me call. Hene, hprjeg riber.<br />
O for the wings of a dove! O - havde jeg en dues vinger,<br />
Far away would I rove! da fjemtjeg ville flyve.<br />
In the wildemess build me a nest I Orkenen bygge mig en rede<br />
and remain there forever at rest. og blive evigt der i fred.<br />
Text: W. Bartholomew
Recording<br />
engineer:<br />
Maibfitt Sune Atldersen<br />
Producer: Fredelik Magle
C,4CILIEKOREI DIRIGENT: GUNNAR SVENSSON<br />
DACOCD 520
Frederik Magle ( I977 - )<br />
Kantate til Sankt Cacilies dag 26:2,1<br />
Cantata fbr St Cecilia's Day<br />
Te kst/Te.\t : I lte n K nt gxl a I<br />
I I ] Hcllige Crcilie. 4://<br />
[ 2 ] Hvem kan splitte sig selv'] -ir2Z<br />
[ 3 ] Ingens bonner cr uhorte,4:2/<br />
[ 4 ] Crccilic. du omvcndte blinde til tro<br />
[ 5 ] Livet er sirdarr her pijorden,5;40<br />
[ 6 ] Og stadig i dag. 5;-i2<br />
S o I i.s t a r/.s t t I t t i s t s :<br />
Birgitte Ewerlijl'. sopran/soprano<br />
Tuva Senrmingsen. alt/alto<br />
Jprgen Ditlevsen, bas/bass<br />
Cieciliekoret<br />
Pigekoret Puls/The girls' choir PULS<br />
Orkestar/ox ltesIxt:<br />
Ossip Frolov. tlojte/f1ute<br />
Peter Halaburt, obo l/oboe I<br />
Radi Radev. obo IIloboc II<br />
Carina Nyberg, klarinct/clarinet<br />
Emilie Deichmann, f agoVbassoon<br />
Bente Errebo Nielsen. trompet/trumpet<br />
Vladimir Landa. violin l/violin I<br />
Anton Lasine, violin Illviolin II<br />
Kenneth McFarlan, bratsch/viola<br />
Peter Tdnshofl cello/cello<br />
Pernille ROmer. kontrabas/double bass<br />
Klaus Jerndorff, klaver/piano<br />
3: l7<br />
Dan E. Nielsen ( 1956 - )<br />
Missa Sanctae Caeciliae l9:01<br />
[7.]Kyrie l:-11<br />
[ 8 ] Gloria ,l: /,1<br />
[9]Credo6:/5<br />
[0] Sanctus /://<br />
Il] Benedictus 2:27<br />
ll2l Agnus Dei -ir20<br />
Solist/soloi.st: Anders Skovsted. tenor<br />
Benjamin Britten ( l9l3-76)<br />
ll3l A Hymn to Saint Cecilia /0:22<br />
Solistcr/sol(,i.\lt:<br />
Cecil Krarup Vedstesen, sopran l/soprano I<br />
Helle Nielsen, sopran Il/soprano II<br />
Eva Nyboe Petersen, alt/alto<br />
Carsten Rysgaard. tenor<br />
Rasmus Gerdes. bas/bass<br />
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy<br />
[4] Motet "Hear my Prayer" 9:20<br />
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S ol i st/.so I o i.vt : Signe Hyldgard, sopran/soprano<br />
K I uv e r/p itut o : Klaus Jerndorff<br />
Dirigent/conductor: Gunnar Svensson<br />
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