Composer Matthew Brown, who is highly acclaimed in the USA, has set texts from the Dream Songs of the Native American Wintu tribe to music. The typically American style of composition is characterized by spherical sounds.

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The text of Hildegard von Bingen is interpreted with spherical and archaic sounds. Frictions form and dissolve, harmonies come and go. The piece is particularly suitable for chamber choir, demanding a trained ear of the singers.

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Andreas Pieper, born in 1958, studied church music at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik Westfalen-Lippe and composition with Roland Ploeger at the Lubeck Music Academy. In 2002, he was among the prize-winners of the composition competition of the European music festival 'Windrose' as part of the Ruhr Festival.
From meditative simplicity to the brilliant 'Alleluja', the atmospherically dense motet 'Justorum animae' interprets a famous text from the 'Book of Wisdom' about the hope of men beyond their transitoriness.