As the name suggests, the 'Missa Popularis' has its musical roots in folk music. This becomes clear in the very first bars of the Kyrie, where the violin plays amelody in the style of a Swedish folk t...
The 'Missa brevis in E flat minor' for mixed choir a cappella has been composed in the tradition of the short Mass (without Credo) and can be easily managed by most choirs. Thanks to its conciseness,...
Triptyk' ('Triptych') and 'Mörkblå tillit' ('Dark Blue Trust') have been written by hospital chaplain/author Kerstin Dillmar. In her work she often meets people who walk in the shadow of death and her...
'Tonight I Dance Alone' for double choir a cappella consists of three poignant episodes from the life of an old man. We encounter him before his wedding, before celebrating his wedding anniversary and...
Mårten Jansson is internationally known, particularly for his masses; the Missa brevis in E-flat minor and the Missa Popularis are regularly performed in concert programmes. The new Missa Brevis Arosi...
Die Vertonung des bekannten Psalms Singet dem Herr ein neues Lied (Ps. 96,1-3) nutzt zur Ausdeutung des Textes starke Dynamik und einem Wechsel von fließenden, blockhaften Akkorden mit schnelleren pol...
Fear Thou Not entstand als Auftragswerk für das preisgekrönte schwedische Frauen-Vokalensemble Les Jolies. Das Stück beschreibt, wie man durch die zugleich mahnende und tröstende Stimme Gottes vom Zwe...
I Never Saw a Moor (Nach einem Text von Emily Dickinson): Die Komposition bringt das unerschütterliche Vertrauen auf Gott zum Ausdruck und damit die zentrale Aussage des Gedichts von Emily Dickinson....
Ingenting utanför - Nothing Beyond' is another collaboration between Mårten Jansson and the Swedish poet Einar Askestad. This a cappella choral work deals with sorrow and loss. After a forceful, harmo...
Das Schwedische Königshaus gab dieses Werk in Auftrag für das Fest der Verkündigung der Jungfrau Maria. Der Text stammt vom schwedischen Dichter Einar Askestad (Uraufführung am 17. März 2013). Die Mus...
The Choirmaster's Burial erzählt lautmalerisch das klassische Gedicht Thomas Hardy's über einen alten Tenor nach, der den Tod seines Chorleiters beklagt. Frauen und Männer sind in zwei Chöre aufgeteil...
I asked my friend, the poet Einar Askestad, if he could write a poem for me about love between father and son, brothers and God. I felt that these forms of love are seldom sung about. The poem moved m...
'De sancto Pelagio et sancto Theodolo' is a transcription of a composition originally conceived for choir and large orchestra. The texts, which stem from the liturgical chants 'Cantionale' by Thomas K...
'An Elemental Elegy' was commissioned by the internationally acclaimed ensemble Voces8 for their 15th anniversary recording project 'After Silence'. The CD was released in July 2020. Mårten Jansson sa...
From Mårten Jansson's Requiem Novum, this work for unaccompanied SATB voices offers a moment of peace and reflection. This is a study of excellence in part-writing with its beautiful melody rising abo...
Sanctus is a joyful and dynamic setting of the traditional Requiem text. Composer Mårten Jansson's beautiful and accessible vocal writing is strengthened here by the addition of organ accompaniment. F...
I have embedded this internationally well-known melody in a harmonic room of bells which is rendered by the male voices. To enhance the feeling of two independent entities, the melody and the bell ost...
This wonderful carol melody is sung by the altos and is accompanied by an ostinato 'motor' in the male voices. The soprano part moves independently and comments, so to speak, on themelodic happenings.
