Mårten Jansson

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....

I Never Saw a Moor (Based on a text by Emily Dickinson): The composition expresses the unshakeable trust in God and thus the central message of Emily Dickinson's poem. The music describes feelings of...

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 Swedish royal family commissioned this work for the feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. The text was written by the Swedish poet Einar Askestad (premiere on March 17, 2013). The music de...

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...

The Choirmaster's Burial is an onomatopoeic retelling of Thomas Hardy's classic poem about an old tenor who mourns the death of his choirmaster. Women and men are divided into two choirs. While the me...

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...

The setting of the well-known psalm Sing unto the Lord a new song (Psalm 96, 1-3) uses strong dynamics and an alternation of flowing, block-like chords with faster polyphonic passages to interpret the...

De sancto Pelagio et sancto Theodolo is a transcription of a work for choir and large orchestra. It was commissioned by the Knabenkantorei Basel. The texts come from the Cantionale chants of the last...

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...

'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...

Stillae was commissioned by the Dortmund Choir Academy's youth concert choir, which won first prize in the 2018 Mårten Jansson Choir Competition. The text is by the American poet Charles Anthony Silve...

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...

Fear Thou Not was commissioned by the award-winning Swedish female vocal ensemble Les Jolies. The piece describes how one can move from doubt to faith through the voice of God, which is both admonishi...

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...

The melody of the world-famous Christmas carol is embedded in a sound space full of bells in the male voices. The independence of these two levels is emphasized by the fact that they are sung in diffe...

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.

Over a kind of ostinato motor in the male voices, the wonderful melody of this song is heard throughout in the alto. The independently led soprano comments, as it were, on the melodic events. I make m...