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makes use of vom Himmel hoch in each of three chorales for small organ. Marcel Dunr6's Variations sur un Nodl (Variations on a Christmas Carol) provides a jubilant conclusion to this recording with a series of ten variations harking back to the ancient hymn Aue Maris Stella. A new Swedish 6lite choir ofthe highest grade was born yesterday evening.'This could be read in the newspapers on 10th November 1975. Some members of this original choir are still singing in the Malmii Chamber Choir today. Many, however, become members while studying in Malmd, Lund or Copenhagen and therefore leave the choir when their studies are completed. Half of the members have a higher music education. The ensemble works in professional manner. Several foimer members have followed up their'training' in Malmci Chamber Qhoir by becoming successful soloists or choir leaders. Hundreds ofconcerts, many radio recordings, a number oftelevision broadcasts and a large number of concert tours are proof of our work. The choir has travelled the length and breadth of Sweden several times; its neighbours Denmark, Norway and Finland have, ofcourse, been visited, and it has achieved success in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, England and Israel' The choir's performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion every Good Friday has been a tradition for many years. The choir's repertoire is mixed and features both old and new music, often including first performances, profane and sacred music, with or without an orchestra. Musical interpretation is dependent on the text content. It is the choir's aim and characteristic to bring out, with the aid of the text, the drama in music. The Malm6 Chamber Choir appears on 2 other BIS records. Dan-Olof Stenlund was only thirty-six years old when he was made professor of choir-conducting at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. He had earlier founded the YMCA Chamber Choir and led choirs in the Engelbrekt church in Stockholm. For several years he was also leader of the Uppsala University Chamber Choir. He studied music at the Musical Academy in Stockholm, qualifying as a music teacher, organist, church choir leader and singing teacher as well as taking exams in solo singing and cello. He was also granted a scholarship 6
to study conducting with Leonard Bernstein in New York and Sergiu Celibidache in Stockholm. In spite ofthese intensive studies he is always keen to point out the importance of early musical foundation laid by his father in the family home in SkellefteA, Sweden. In 1975 Dan-OIof Stenlund founded the Malmd Chamber Choir. He was soon also invited to take on the leadership of the Malm6 Symphony Orchestra Choir and the choir of the Coliege of Music in the same town. Dan-Olof Stenlund has acted as a visiting lecturer at various American universities. In Europe he leads seminars in choir conducting and singing, and for many years he has been one of the leading and also most popular conductors at the great international choir festival Europa Cantat. Dan-OIof Stenlund is an honorary member of 'Les Amis de Francis Poulenc'. In 1978 he became a member of the Swedish Royal Musical Academy and in 1987 he was created Knight of the Danish Dannebrogen Order. He appears on 5 other BIS records. Hans Fagius was born in Norrkciping in 1951. He was taught by the organists Nils Eriksson and Bengt Berg before studying at the Stockholm College of Music with Alf Linder, under whose guidance he obtained his soloist's diploma in 1974. He subsequently studied for a year in Paris with Maurice Durufl6. In recent vears, on the basis of private study, he has devoted himself increasingly to Baioque music, trying to approach the music on its own terms under the inspiration of scholarship in this field and the so-calied 'Alte Spielweise'. On two occasions he has won prizes in international organ competitions and since the beginning of the 1970s he has given numerous recitals throughout Europe, in the USA and in Australia. He has also made radio recordings in a number of countries. He has taught at the Stockholm and Gothenburg Colleges of Music and is now Professor at the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen. He appearl on 42 other BIS recoros.
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