Choral music - a cappella

sacred

Haga Motettkör conducted by Ulrike Heider. Various sacred choral works composed for concert and service.

Sacred Music

A simple four part setting of the well known vesper hymn. Recording of first performance in service at Hagakyrkan, Göteborg, on March 25, 2021. Johanna Ek-Wahlqvist (soprano), Lina Bjarnegård Carlsson (alto), Mikael Carlsson (tenor), Erik Gustafsson (bass), Ulrike Heider (director).

Ave Maris Stella (2021)

O Magnum Mysterium (2008)

Haga Motettkör conducted by Ulrike Heider. Various sacred choral works composed for concert and service.

Sheet music available from Carlssons Kluster:
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/agnus-dei-digital-sheet-music/21289766

Agnus Dei (2009)

Haga Motettkör conducted by Ulrike Heider. Various sacred choral works composed for concert and service.

Sheet music available from Santa Barbara Music Publishing:
https://sbmp.com/SR2.php?CatalogNumber=1208

Song of Faith

Song of Faith (2014)

Ave Maria (2014)

Kyrie (based on a theme from Sonata no 39 K 402 by Domenico Scarlatti) (2014)

Haga Motettkör conducted by Ulrike Heider. 

Sheet music available from Carlssons Kluster:
https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/rhyme-of-polaris-digital-sheet-music/20714656

Lyrics from H.P. Lovecraft's short story "Polaris" (1918):

Slumber, watcher, till the spheres,
Six and twenty thousand years
Have revolv'd, and I return
To the spot where now I burn.
Other stars anon shall rise
To the axis of the skies;
Stars that soothe and stars that bless
With a sweet forgetfulness:
Only when my round is o'er
Shall the past disturb thy door.

Recording by Erik Sikkema (http://www.freewebs.com/eriksikkema/).

Rhyme of Polaris

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Rhyme of Polaris (H.P. Lovecraft) (2015)

AGNUS DEI - Sacred Choral Music - The Choir Of New College, Oxford. E.HIGGINBOTTOM [Full Album]

In October 2015, Johannebergskyrkan in Göteborg, Sweden, celebrated its 75th anniversary highlighted by a number of concerts. For the final one, on October 18, the Church of Sweden and the Congregation of Johanneberg, commissioned a new piece by composer Mikael Carlsson. "Te Deum", written for choir and orchestra, sets the old christian hymn (also known as "A Song of the Church") to suggestive and dramatic music with the pitches of the church's three tower bells as it foundation. The piece also incorporates a theme by Hilding Hallnäs (Johannebergskyrkan's first organist and a fine and prolific composer in his own right) to acknowledge the great musical heritage of the church. 

Music Composed by Mikael Carlsson
Conducted by Jan K. Delemark
Johannebergs Oratoriekör
Camerata Gothia
Musicians from GöteborgsOperan
Daniel Åkerlund, trumpet solo
Music Recorded by Erik Sikkema

Concert video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyAVTHfBYd4

Te Deum for Orchestra and Choir (2015)

The final section of the Gloria from John Taverner's masterpiece, his Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas. This will be performed in concert on Saturday 29th October 2016 in London. See www.renaisssancesingers.com for more details.

In rehearsal: Cum Sancto Spiritu from Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas (Taverner)

Choir at work learning the repertoire for 'Saints and Sinners' concert. Recorded on 18th June 2012 at St. Sepulchre-without-Newgate

In Rehearsal: O Virtus Sapientiae (Hildegard of Bingen)

Haga Motettkör conducted by Ulrike Heider. Performed in service in Hagakyrkan, September 30, 2018.

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Gratias Deo
Gratias ago Deo,
Quia spritus est cantus.

Gratias Deo.
Gratias ago Deo,
Per potentiam virtuete cantus.

Gratias Deo,
Gratias ago Deo,
Quod ad amorem, caritas cantus.

Gratias Deo,
Gratias ago Deo,
Quod a sanitatem cantus ad sanitatem.

Gratias Deo,
Propter Gaudium, gaudium in cantus.
Gratias Deo.

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Thank God,
thank you God,
for the spirit of singing.

Thank God,
thank you God,
for the power of singing.

Thank God,
thank you God,
for the love of singing.

Thank God,
thank you God,
for the health of singing.

Thank God,
thank you God,
for the joy of singing.

Gratias Deo (2018)

Highlights of an evensong, sung by the Cathedral Singers of Christchurch, Oxford, in Bath Abbey on 8 August 2010.

In pace - Bannister

Composer specializing in choral and orchestral music for concert use and service. Works published by Svensk Musik,  Bo Ejeby Förlag and Santa Barbara Music Publishing. Arranger of film music for concert use (clients include Marco Beltrami, Terence Blanchard and Carter Burwell) and a soundtrack album producer with +600 albums released on the acclaimed record label MovieScore Media. Mikael is also a producer for three choirs in Göteborg, Sweden, and a singer(tenor/alto).