SKU: CA.138500
ISBN 9790007003449. Key: G minor. Language: German.
SKU: CA.331430
ISBN 9790007171995. Text language: Italian. Text: Tasso, Torquato.
SKU: CA.966500
ISBN 9790007167707. Text language: Latin/English.
Interestingly, Ayres combines the Latin text of the hymn with his translation here: in the style of a free motet-like cantus firmus, he interprets the Latin text impressively in music, making use of glissandi, wide leaps and unison twelve-tone linear construction for the dramatic second verse with its deceptive vision of night. He places the motet sections after the translated text, but quite simply with the Gregorian cantus firmus and in the style of medieval organum, however with interesting, diatonically written dissonant sounds. This rewarding piece is challenging, but well worth singing in a concert or church service.
SKU: CA.7010025
ISBN 9790007228606. Key: G minor. Language: German.
Score available separately - see item CA.7010000.
SKU: CA.964600
ISBN 9790007144821. Language: German.
SKU: CA.331380
ISBN 9790007173418. Key: Mixolydian. Text language: English.
SKU: CA.123500
ISBN 9790007002039. Key: G phrygian. Language: German.
SKU: CA.2904000
ISBN 9790007203054. Language: German.
SKU: CA.7020012
ISBN 9790007228750. Key: D major. Language: German. Text: Neumeister, Erdmann. Text: Erdmann Neumeister.
With alternative text Jesus, meine Zuversicht (text: Otto von Schwerin). Score available separately - see item CA.7020000.
SKU: CA.137500
ISBN 9790007003340. Key: C major. Language: German.
SKU: CA.2037115
ISBN 9790007194338. Key: G dorian. Language: German/English.
Score available separately - see item CA.2037100.
SKU: CA.964700
ISBN 9790007144814. Language: German.
SKU: CA.2037400
ISBN 9790007034689. Key: G dorian. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.2037111
ISBN 9790007194291. Key: G dorian. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.927600
ISBN 9790007296117. French. Text: Gautier, Theophile.
A prevailing melancholy mood is characteristic of Theophile Gautier's (1811-1872) poetry; a melancholy mood which inspired composers such as Hector Berlioz and Gabriel Faure to compose settings. Tristesse (Sadness) is taken from the 1838 collection La Comedie de la Mort (The Comedy of Death). With over 50 poems this is regarded as Gautier's major Romantic work. Although the narrator in the poem is conscious of the joy and zest for life of spring coming into bloom around him, he cannot share this: Helas! j'ai dans le coeur une tristesse affreuse. (Alas, in my heart I bear a terrible grief.). Faure's setting portrays this effect less as a dramatic sigh than a melancholic unworldliness with peaceful piano accompaniment in the minor key. This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist.The songs have been recorded by the figure humaine chamber choir on the CD ... Wo die Zitronen bluhn (Carus 83.514).
SKU: CA.623300
ISBN 9790007011857. Key: G major. Language: German.
SKU: CA.2041200
ISBN 9790007035617. Key: G dorian. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.331480
ISBN 9790007172046. Key: A minor. Text language: Italian/Latin. Text: Moro, Maurizio / Coppini, Aquilini.
SKU: CA.2001500
ISBN 9790007033286. Key: G dorian. Language: Italian. Text: Guarini, Giambattista. Text: Giambattista Guarini.
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