Anders Öhrwall (1932-2012):
PASTORALE

"Pastorale" refers to something of a pastoral nature in music, whether in form or in mood. A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture.

Common examples include the last movement of Corelli's Christmas Concerto, the third movement of Vivaldi's Spring concerto from The Four Seasons, the Pifa movement of Handel's Messiah, the first movements of Bach's Pastorale (BWV 590) for organ, and the Sinfonia that opens part II of his Christmas Oratorio as an introduction to the angelic announcement to the shepherds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastorale

Öhrwall was a Swedish conductor and composer. For several years he collaborated with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Concentus Musicus Wien. This is an excerpt from his choral work MARIAMUSIK ("An account on the sacred virgin - for recitation, choir and instruments"), which was composed for the Nordic choir festival NORDKLANG in Silkeborg, Denmark (July 1974). The music contains the text in Swedish and Danish.

Instrumentalists
Conducted by Anders Öhrwall