Linköpings Domkyrkas Kammarkör

Linköpings Domkyrkas Kammarkör som består av ett trettiotal sångare bildades 1977 och har sedan 1995 dirigerats av domkyrkokantor Jörgen Ralphsson. Repetitionerna som är förlagda till tisdagkvällar präglas av höga ambitioner och en skönt lättsam stämning. Under åren har kören haft förmånen att få musicera tillsammans med ett stort antal, huvudsakligen svenska orkestrar och körer och har deltagit vid åtskilliga radio-, CD- och TV-inspelningar. Kammarkören har under våra resor konserterat i kyrkor, katedraler och konsertsalar i såväl ett flertal europeiska länder som i USA. Sommaren 2006 tilldelades kören en delad förstaplats i en internationell sakral körtävling i Preveza, Grekland. Kammarkören deltar årligen i Linköpings Domkyrkas uppsättningar av större mässor, requiem och passioner. Utöver barockmusik arbetar kören med modernare sakral musik inkluderande ett flertal av dagens skandinaviska tonsättare.

The Chamber Choir of the Cathedral of Linköping, Sweden

This ensemble consisting of 30 amateur singers was established in 1977 mainly to participate in masses and services of the Cathedral of Linköping. Lennart Ekholm, who was our first conductor, was in charge of the choir until 1995, when the current director Jörgen Ralphsson was appointed as conductor. During the years the choir has worked together with several, mainly Swedish, orchestras and choirs and has participated in quite a few radio- and television-recordings. The Chamber Choir of the Cathedral of Linköping has travelled abroad about every other year to perform in churches, cathedrals and concert halls in several European countries such as Great Britain, France, former Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria, former DDR, Denmark and Northern Ireland, as well as in The United States of America. The summer of 2006 this Chamber Choir won a gold medal in “24th International Choral Competition of Sacred Music” of Preveza in Greece. 

 The Chamber Choir of the Cathedral of Linköping has made four CD-recordings and is currently working on the fifth. The first two recordings where made in the 1980’s. The first record contained music by U.Sandén, former organist in the Cathedral, while the second included chosen parts from “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols”. In 1997 “The Swedish Mass” by J.H.Roman was recorded as well as work by other Scandinavian composers such as E.Grieg, K.Nystedt and O.Olsson. 1999 the CD “Veni Sancte Spiritus” apart from Scandinavian works contained music by G.P.Palestrina, F.Poulenc, B.Britten, J.Busto and J.Berger. The ongoing recording contains so far “Messe für Doppelchor” by F.Martin, G.Allegri’s “Miserere”, “Komm, Jesu Komm” by J.S.Bach and parts of F.Poulenc’s “Mass in G-major”.

 Yearly, the Chamber Choir participates in the performances of J.S.Bach’s greater masses and passions set in the Cathedral of Linköping, including the “St Matthew Passion”, the “St John Passion”, the “Magnificat” and the “Mass in B-minor”. Moreover, the “Messiah” by G.F.Handel is performed on a regular basis in our Cathedral. Among other pieces of early music these performances are usually made together with the Chamber Orchestra of the Cathedral of Linköping. The Chamber Orchestra is an orchestra mainly using early baroque instruments. Together with this orchestra the Chamber Choir has performed early music such as “The Vespers” by C.Monteverdi, D.Buxtehude’s “Jesu Membra Nostri” and “Die Sieben Worte Jesu Christe am Kreutz” among other works by H.Schütz, T.Tallis and other early composers. Beside baroque music the Chamber Choir has also worked with sacral choral music by composers as F. Poulenc, F. Martin, J.Rutter, B.Chilcott, H.Gorecki, A.Pärt, S.E.Bäck and P.G.Petersson and several Scandinavian composers of today.

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