{"product_id":"various-artists-nordic-choral-music","title":"Various Artists: Nordic Choral Music - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNordic Choral Music\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eVarious Artists\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eProfil - G Haenssler\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e881488200645\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eClassical\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2021-01-15\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         Sagas, myths, vast realms. Snow-capped mountains, dark forests and an overarching stillness and peace. The cultures of Scandinavia have always exerted a huge fascination over people. Scandinavian music is often purported to possess a mystical and \"typically Nordic\" sound, and even if such a causal association cannot be applied in too much of a sweeping generalization, there are nevertheless frequently recurring characteristics: in particular, in the post-war generation there developed in Scandinavian choral music a strong orientation towards folk music and folk songs; choral singing became a significant medium of expression in middle-class music circles. The important relationship between human beings and Nature - as a result of the strong influence in Scandinavia of the changing seasons on people's everyday lives - along with fundamental questions about life and death were ever-present topics in those countries' choral music. Using modern-day musical resources, many works emerged in vernacular style and the boundaries between the art song and the folk song became blurred. Contemporary trends developed swiftly, the human voice was deployed in far more diverse ways than ever before: speaking, screaming, clucking, whistling and so on all took on equal weight within Scandinavian choral music together with improvisation and the use of empty syllables. Novel sounds and unusual scores were soon setting the tone and new standards on the Scandinavian choral scene began leading to a continual professionalisation that was to make waves across all of Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 I himmelen, i himmelen \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Ubi caritas \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Sommarpsalm \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Stillae \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Till Österland \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Maria IV \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Sanctus \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Immortal Bach \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Biegga Luohte \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Gaudet mater \u003cbr\u003e1.11 Min Yndlingsdal \u003cbr\u003e1.12 Flos ut rosa floruit \u003cbr\u003e1.13 Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day \u003cbr\u003e1.14 Canticum calamitatis maritimae (Requiem zum Untergang der Estonia) \u003cbr\u003e1.15 Erste Elegie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAudio Sample:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n                                           \u003ci\u003eAll soundclips are provided by Tidal and are for illustrative purposes only. For some releases, the tracks listed may not accurately represent the tracks on the physical release.\u003c\/i\u003e\n                                           \u003cbr\u003e\n                                           \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.tidal.com\/albums\/168132241\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width:100%;height:700px\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Various Artists","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32781449887815,"sku":"41176658","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2976\/0132\/files\/3890462-2659442.jpg?v=1711729057","url":"https:\/\/tower.com\/products\/various-artists-nordic-choral-music","provider":"Tower Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}