Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm, Jesu, komm!, BWV 229
Ethel Smyth: Five Sacred Partsongs – ‘Komm, süsser Tod’
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Fratres ego enim accepi
Paola Prestini: Fratres, after Palestrina
Carl Nielsen: Three Motets
Anon: Three traditional Danish summer songs
Uroš Krek: Three Autumn Songs
Alma Mahler-Werfel, arr. C Gottwald: Five Songs – ‘Laue Sommernacht’
Gustav Mahler, arr. N Forte: Rückert-Lieder – ‘Liebst du um Schönheit’
The Danish National Vocal Ensemble presents a choral dialogue across the centuries, with British composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth responding to Bach and Italian-born Paola Prestini reflecting on Palestrina, born 500 years ago. The great Dane Carl Nielsen paid his own tribute to Palestrina and the choir also brings songs of summer and autumn.