Text from Isaiah 54:10

Es sollen wohl Berge weichen und Hügel hinfallen, 
aber meine Gnade soll nicht von dir weichen, 
und der Bund meines Friedens soll nicht hinfallen, 
spricht der HERR, dein Erbarmer.

Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,”
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

Även om bergen viker bort
och höjderna vacklar,
så ska min nåd inte vika från dig
eller mitt fridsförbund vackla,
säger Herren din förbarmare

Es Solle Dem Berge Weichen

Sommarpsalm composed by former organist in S:t Jacobs church. 
Congregational singing and verse two is sung only by the congregation at the concert. 

Sound engineer: Erland von Heijne
Audio edit & mix: Mats Helgesson

S:t Jacobs Kammarkör 40 år

Waldemar Åhlén: Sommarpsalm (congregation singing)

Together with alumni members/former singers of S:t Jacobs Chamber Choir

Conductor: Gary Graden

Hall Johnson: Ain't Got Time to Die

Commissioned by S:t Jacobs Chamber choir and composed as a gift from the composer to Gary Graden at his 60th birthday, 2015

Conductor and tenor: Gary Graden

Sound engineer: Erland von Heijne
Audio edit & mix: Mats Helgesson

Brandon Waddles: Wait till I get on my robe (Commissioned and premiered 2015)

Soprano saxofone: Anders Paulsson
Tenor: Richard Thelander

Sound engineer: Erland von Heijne
Audio edit & mix: Mats Helgesson

Trad. Deep river (arr Anders Paulsson, Commissioned and premiered 1997)

Sound engineer: Erland von Heijne
Audio edit & mix: Mats Helgesson

Improvisation over Den blomstertid nu kommer

Organ improvisation

"The piece is intended to be performed in an auditorium with reverberance, such as a church. The text is ‘nature-lyrical’, with an undertone of melancholic reflection on the state of our planet." Anders Hillborg
This piece was commissioned by the choir in 2019.

Conductor: Gary Graden

Soprano Saxofone: Theo hillborg
Cello: Filip Graden

Sound engineer: Erland von Heijne
Audio edit & mix: Mats Helgesson

Anders Hillborg: The Breathing of the World (Commissioned and premiered 2019)

Song no. 103 from Nobel laureate Harry Martinson’s space poem Aniara, published in 1956. The music is based on ”chromatic congruence”, where the music constantly changes key. The piece is included in
a newly written suite of three choral pieces with texts from Harry Martinson's space epic Aniara there
song 103 is the last and concluding part. The story takes place on board a gigantic spacecraft, the "Goldonder" Aniara, which routinely carries eight thousand on each trip emigrants from Earth to Mars and Venus. The earth, which is called Doris here, is damaged by environmental destruction and nuclear war. On one of these journeys, Aniara is forced to make way for an unknown asteroid, goes off course, gets caught in a meteor shower and loses maneuverability, but otherwise continues unharmed at unabated speed out of the solar system and into the unknown. Aniara was conceived in the 1950s as a dystopian allegory of humanity. With the world events taking place now, the message unfortunately feels all too timely.

In the work there is an ongoing harmonic progression which
is based on a musical structure Jonas Bohlin developed and calls Chromatic Congruence, i.e. all colors in balance or to quote Jonas himself:
“In a specific twenty-four-step pattern, the music moves through all keys and generating fields of shifting colors with fleeting associations to historical music. A web of harmonic progressions where root notes are temporary and final chords do not exist.”

Conductor: Gary Graden

Sound engineer: Erland von Heijne
Audio edit & mix: Mats Helgesson

Jonas Bohlin: Aniara sång 103 (Commission and World premiere)

Andrea Tarrodi, born in 1981, is a Swedish composer based in Stockholm. Her works have been performed at several venues both in Sweden and abroad, among them the Royal Albert Hall at the BBC Proms in 2017, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Wiener Musikverein and the Barbican Centre in London.

Commission and world premiere

Sound engineer: Erland von Heijne
Audio edit & mix: Mats Helgesson

Andrea Tarrodi: Klangen (Commission and World premiere)

Music by Michael Waldenby from his piece Libeer Eccleisastes. That concists of six pieceis. This is number two. 

The composition of Verba Ecclesiastes begun in 2002 as a result of a comission from my friend Gary Graden. For many years I’ve found those words from the Old Testament very fascinating – as everyone knows, I’m not alone. “Vanity of vanities! All is vanity!” Writers, painters and filmmakers have for centuries been dealing with the subject and I found it high time to set the famous words to music. The suite, for soloists, choir and violoncello, consists of six movements, each one enlighting a different view of life and afterlife, and also, as Matthew Arnold puts it “of human misery”. Yet the suite is full of hope and humanity, specially recognizable in the two central parts, Dulce lumen and Omnia tempus habent. The music was completed in 2009. (Michael Waldenby)

Conductor: Martin Hellberg

Sound engineer: Erland von Heijne
Audio edit & mix: Mats Helgesson

Michael Waldenby: Et haec non vanitas est from Liber Ecclesiastes (Comissioned and premiered 2009))

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Es Solle Dem Berge Weichen

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