Trilo Explained

Trilo is a traditional Swedish folk song. The song is about longing for someone at sea, traditionally sung by Swedish and Norwegian wives as their husbands returned from sea.^[1]

Trilo has been arranged for choir several times. An arrangement by Ale Möller has been included in his album Nordan (1994) with Lena Willemark,^[2] and has been released later for choir a cappella.^[3]

An arrangement by Bengt Ollén written in 2017 has been recorded by Sofia Vokalensemble.^[4] The piece was included on the album Song of the North released in March 2018^[5] and has been described as "highly atmospheric music".^[6] Ollén's arrangement of Trilo was performed by the Oxford Intermezzo chamber choir as the opening number with the choir distributed around the audience in a "Songs of the North" concert at SJE Arts Oxford on 7 September 2019.^[7]

In 2021, the folk song Trilo was used as the basis of a choral setting by Simon Jackson of Thomas Campion's poem Never weather-beaten sail.^[8]

External links

• S:t Jacobs Vokalensemble performance in Storkyrkan, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017
• Prairie Voices performance in Westminster United Church, Winnipeg, Canada, 2017
• The Choir of Peterhouse, Cambridge performance of Simon Jackson's setting of Never weather-beaten sail (Trilo) in St George's Church, Chesterton, Cambridge, 2022

Notes and References

1. Web site: Trilo . Ollén . Bengt . Gehrmans Musiförlag . Sweden . 8 September 2019 .
2. Web site: ECM 1536 . ecmrecords.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20080629225259/http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1500/1536.php . 29 June 2008 . 24 November 2022.
3. Web site: Trilo (SATB) by Trad. Sweden/arr. Ale Moller . J.W. Pepper & Son . 24 November 2022.
4. Web site: Förvårskväll (One early spring evening) . . Convivium Records . 8 September 2019 .
5. Web site: Ollén – Trilo: Song of the North . Presto Classical . 8 September 2019 .
6. Web site: Recording of the Month: Song of the North . MusicWeb International . April 2018 . 8 September 2019 .
7. Web site: Songs of the North . Oxford Intermezzo . UK . 9 September 2019 .
8. Web site: Encore Publications - Welcome to Encore Publications . 2022-08-13 . www.encorepublications.com.