SKU: C4.9790902260459

ISBN 9790902260459. 8.27 x 11.7 inches.

Australian poet James McAuley's visceral text is joined here in perfect marriage with Brooke Shelley's imaginative and shapely setting. The work was commissioned by St James’ Church, King Street, Sydney for the concert Gul Gul Dja Mardji: Long is the Journey, 9 December, 2017.

SKU: PE.EP72166

ISBN 9790577089614. English.

Words traditional

SSATB and percussion (Easy).

SKU: CA.926400

ISBN 9790007261870. French. Text: Victor Hugo.

In his poem Soiree en mer, Victor Hugo describes how the sea can be perceived very differently by two lovers at the same time in the same place. While the man perceives the deepening shadows on the dancing waves, the woman marvels at the stars shining ever brighter in the firmament. In nature, as in the words of the poem, the painful ambiguity that represents life at its core can be experienced. Like no other poet, Hugo captures this almost unbearable simultaneity of living and dying, of love and suffering. Saint-Saens translates this into music - probably the most ephemeral and contemporary of all art forms. His balanced musical form leaves plenty of room for the poetry and his subtle variations in timbre, which also inspired Denis Rouger to his choral arrangement, create a seething motion under the surface of the sea.

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 Ztronen bluhn (Carus 83.514).

SKU: HL.49031960

ISBN 9790001062923. German.

Im Mittelpunkt dieser weihnachtlichen Komposition steht der Choral Vom Himmel hoch, dessen Verse in der Reihenfolge vertauscht sind und so dem Ablauf der Weihnachtsgeschichte nach dem Evangelisten Lukas (2, Vers 1-20) angepasst wurden. An zwei Stellen wird je ein Choral in der Art des Quodlibets eingefugt. Choral und Weihnachtsgeschichte verteilen sich uber drei Teile, die jeweils durch eine Sonate eingeleitet werden.