This CD features Svend Nielsen’s most extensive vocal work Butterfly Valley, based on a famous sonnet cycle by the Danish poet Inger Christensen from 1991. The poem tells the incredible story of the life of a butterfly: from its larval state to its metamorphosis and short, winged life, and from childhood memory to a sense of approaching death. Thus Butterfly Valley also has the subtitle ”A requiem”, because it describes the gradual realization of the presence of death. It is poetic vocal chamber music that unfolds as a grand, sensual tour de force - a major work of contemporary Danish music