03/10/2025
Kammerkoret Camerata - "Wind Walks" !
This one sneeked under our SoMe-radar (sorry for that !) but Erik Brockhoff of Camarata picked up Camarata's newly presse album the other day ! From the press : " The chamber choir CAMERATA is a professionally working amateur choir, which thanks to the fruitful combination of seasoned professionalism and the amateur's commitment and intuitive joy in choral music can call itself one of the country's leading chamber choirs. On this beautiful album they sing works by Peter Bruun conducted by Sofia Söderbarg ! Further about the album : "Årstidssange (side 1) have been written for CAMERATA. H.C. Andersen's national anthem I was born in Denmark already has three melodies in the High School Songbook. Bruun's version, which in this cycle represents summer, is not a new community song melody, but a thoroughly composed and innovative interpretation of the text. Nu falmer Skoven is an arrangement of Johan H. Nebelong's beloved melody from 1889, which moves through several keys in a gradual crescendo. Det er hvidt Herude is another arrangement of a well-known community song, which increases in tempo and strength and culminates in a swirling tangle of snowflakes. Et tidligt Foraar is a new spring hymn with both melody and lyrics by Bruun, and like the other songs, it is arranged "undulating" towards an emotional release.
Wind Walks (side 2) is a complete song cycle, created through a spontaneous and poetic process. Peter Bruun was captivated when, as a young choir singer, he became acquainted with Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poetry in Benjamin Britten’s Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. The words, which unite religion, nature worship and rhythmic innovation, as well as the music, complex but immediate, had a great influence on his own music. A few years later, he set two Hopkins poems to music, Heaven-Haven and Peace, originally for voice and percussion. In 2009, he reworked Peace for male choir. He composed Hurrahing in Harvest for a choir competition in 2010, where CAMERATA shared first place. In 2016, these three movements were reworked and supplemented with two new ones in a song cycle for mixed choir."
