In the arrangement

En jungfru födde ett barn i dag Sv

overlayed on itself

oboe and string quintet

This version of Gabriella's song for mixed choir is with lyrics in English by Py Bäckman

Calligrammes SSAATTBB + soloist In the arrangementVerkkommentar I have been an avid reader of Guillaume Apollinaires surrealistic poetry ever since I travelled to Paris as a teenager in the late 1970s. There I discovered his poetry and brought it back with me when I returned home to my native Sweden. I immediately fell for the blend of humour, sorrow, longing for love and peace and innovation that I found in Apollinaires poems. He was at the forefront when modernism was established in Paris, and he