Gather your friends around the piano or the guitar

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Viktor Rydberg's classic Christmas poem in the composer's unmistakably lyrical tone

with a melody that then grows into polyphony and with text

Anna-Karin Klockar has previously won the Allmäna Sången & Anders Wall Composition Award 2016 with the piece Speeches (GE 12947)

Var inte rädd för mörkret/Oh do not fear the darkness 19 sön e tref Gather your friends around theDon't be afraid of the dark was commissioned and premiered by St. Gran's Chamber Choir for a concert project with the theme "Don't be afraid, Maria" For the same concert, Mathias also wrote music to text from Mendelssohn's oratorio Elia, see GE 12930. Mathias is a well known jazz pianist, but also composes music for choir, in a style that combines jazz sounds with classical choral music.