Skånska vinterkvällar op. 4, for mixed choir (music by: David Unger, texts by: Vilhelm Ekelund) by David Unger | Composer

Two small songs about winter in southern Sweden. Live performance by chamber choir Cantores Calmarienses led by Torbjörn Westman. Recorded live in the chapel of Oskarshamn Community College in February 2012.

A poetic translation in English made by me in November 2015 reads as follows:

I.
Now stillness falls around us
and evening’s peace turns light,
and plains of white are sleeping
with houses in the night.

Behind the ridges forests
the sky is rosy red.
And soon the final noices
of flails in town are dead.

And shadow stretches deep black
the church tow’r o’er the plain,
it sparkles in the snow crust
with silvery blue grain.

II.
It is the time when dark and chrimson red
it breaths against the window’s frosty snow
one final note of sunset’s glow is spread,
where calm it shines in evenings misty glow.

It is the time, when all shivers resound,
when tiniest branch of elm and ash we saw
by quiet rocking wind is touched on ground
and dragging rustling in the heaps of straw.

It is that silent time when smooth a stream
towards you comes when peace of evening reigns,
when everything is strange and waken dream
and rosy mists are over fields and plains.