Utwory na płycie:

• Söderman: Kyrie
• Edvard Grieg: Ave Maris Stella
• Gioachino Rossini: Preghiera

Oh Kristus valgus oled sa (Estonian hymn)

Cyrillus Kreek:
Taaveti laul nr. 137

René Eespere:
Glorificatio

Andres Lemba:
Gloria

August Söderman:
Kyrie · Domine

Sven-David Sandström:
Sanctus

György Orbán:
Daemon irrepit callidus

Edvard Grieg:
Ave maris stella

Nils-Eric Fougstedt:
Nattlig Madonna

Franz Xaver Biebl:
Ave Maria (Angelus Domini)

Darius Milhaud:
Psaume 121

Gioacchino Rossini:
Preghiera

Bob Chilcott:
Newton’s Amazing Grace

Jean Langlais:
Praise the Lord (Psalm 150)

Arvo Pärt:
De profundis

Estonia provides both starting point and goal for this disc of sacred music for male choir, with a traditional hymn followed by works by composers such as Kreek, Eespere and Lemba, and the closing De profundis by Arvo Pärt. But in between, Orphei Drängar and their conductor Cecilia Rydinger Alin make a grand tour of Europe, taking in music by composers from the Nordic countries, France, Italy, Central Europe and the UK. Biblical Psalms have provided many of these with their texts, such as Milhaud (in French), Langlais (in English), Kreek (in Estonian) and Pärt (in Latin). Others – Lemba, Söderman, Sandström – have set portions of the text of the Catholic mass. Grieg and Biebl were both inspired by prayers in Latin, while Rossini chose to set one in Italian. For Nattlig madonna ('Nocturnal Madonna') the Finnish composer Nils-Eric Fougtstedt selected a poem depicting the Virgin Mary with her newborn child by his compatriot Edith Södergran, while Bob Chilcott has chosen one by the Guyanese-British poet John Aagard, whose version of John Newton's Amazing Grace gives the background to the conversion of this 18th-century slave-trader turned abolitionist. Throughout a programme ranging from Rossini's Preghiera from c. 1860 to Sven-David Sandström's Sanctus, composed for the choir in 2010, Orphei Drängar and Rydinger Alin once again demonstrate the versatility and exalted standards that habitually causes the choir to be described as the finest male-voice choir in the world.