Listen to the voice of nature; it holds treasures for you. In everything, we are connected to one another.
Thus begins a proverb from the indigenous Huron-Wendat people of North America, which Agneta Sköld has set to music in the piece ‘Listen to the Earth’, and which serves as a kind of central theme running through the concert program. In the texts, we encounter various voices that speak of injustice and pain, but also of the power of nature and a desire to care for the earth and the people who live on it. In ‘Cantos Sagrados’, for example, James MacMillan combines texts on political oppression in Latin America – including works by the Argentine-Chilean writer and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman – with Latin liturgical texts. Marcus Alvgrim is the organist for this piece.
Concert program Listen to the Earth
The Chamber Choir of the Academy of Music and Drama
Lyssna till jorden
Agneta Sköld (b. 1947)
Text: Proverb from the indigenous Huron-Wendat people
Sången om jorden
Vladimir Vysotskij (1938–1980)
Översättning: Carsten Palmær (b. 1946)
Arr: Gunnar Eriksson (b. 1936)
Cantos Sagrados
James MacMillan (b. 1959)
Text: Ariel Dorfman (b. 1942) & Ana Maria Mendoza
I. Identity
II. Virgin of Guadalupe
III. Sun Stone
Tyst är det rum
Gabriella Gullin (b. 1961)
Text: Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974)
Crucifixus a 8
Antonio Lotti (1667–1740)
Abendlied
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839–1901)
