SKU: HL.8300124

UPC: 073999362046.

SKU: GH.N03746

ISBN 9790070028950. 185 x 262 mm inches. Text: Tysk / David Eliasson (Swedish).

SKU: LP.765762101227

UPC: 765762101227.

Accompaniment CD includes stereo and split-channel mixes as well as demo recording.

SKU: UM.33237

SKU: MN.50-6045

UPC: 688670560453.

Herbert Brokerings beautiful text expresses delight in the beauty of nature, and draws parallels between this gift of beauty and the gift of Christ. The melody is lyrical and easily learned. The premier performance of this piece was at A Rose in Winter 2002: International Carols and Traditions, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

SKU: FG.55011-348-0

ISBN 9790550113480.

Shiki began as a request for a short winter-themed piece for the Hamalais-Osakunnan Laulajat choir in Helsinki. It eventually grew into a four seasons-type cycle on haiku by a 20th century Japanese monk Santoka Taneda.
The music of Shiki is a progression through various states of near-stasis. The main impression the composer wished to convey was the one of absolute stillness at the heart of each scene, of communion with the outer world, as if the viewer were drawing the landscape into him, and at the same time dissolving himself into it. The voices are treated texturally, as well as textually, moving on slow masses, with the soft but precisecely colored vowels of Japanese creating the basic sounds, and the sharper consonants giving them shape and definition.