Anders Öhrwall - Mariamusik - 7. The Cherry Tree Carol

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Anders Öhrwall (1932-2012):
THE CHERRY TREE CAROL (Swedish: Körsbärsträdet)

This ballad relates an apocryphal story of the Virgin Mary. Mary and Josef are travelling, and the two stop in a cherry orchard. Mary asks her husband to pick cherries for her, and also informing him that she is carrying a child. He becomes upset and tells her to let the child's father pick her cherries. Then, the infant Jesus speaks from the womb.

From here, the Swedish and Danish versions divert :-) In the Swedish version, he instructs the tree to bend down so that she can have her cherries. Which she indeed does, and describes it as a miracle. In the Danish version, he instructs it to become as soft as a rush, after which it bends down and informs Josef about the true nature of Maria's pregnancy. These are only two of the many variations of the story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cherry-Tree_Carol

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.

Melody and text originally in English and from the 16. century.

Adolf Fredriks Bachkör
Instrumentalists
Conducted by Anders Öhrwall

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