SKU: CA.744400
Composed by Peter
Schindler. Contemporary
Choir Music. Secular
choral music. Full Score.
Carus Verlag #CV
07.444/00. Published by
Carus Verlag (CA.744400).
ISBN M-007-24692-1.
Text: Peter Schindler;
Eduard Morike; Maik
Brandenburg; Hugo Ball;
Friedrich Ruckert;
Adelheid
Wette.
Poets and
composers have regularly
been inspired by angels
for texts, images or
melodies. Peter Schindler
has set to music an angel
song cycle based on the
wonderful lyrics of Hugo
Ball, Martin Luther,
Eduard Morike, Friedrich
Ruckert, from Des Knaben
Wunderhorn, as well as
Psalm 91, which can be
performed at any time of
the year, as a whole or
partially, as a concert
interlude or an encore,
and of course during
Christmastime. The six
angel songs can be
performed with different
vocal settings (1- to
4-part S, SA, SSA or
SATB) and piano
accompaniment. All four
vocal versions can be
combined as desired and
sung simultaneously, as
well as - additionally or
alternatively - with
string quartet/quintet.
For each song there is a
descant notated in C or B
flat ad lib. In this way,
the songs can be compiled
individually for singers
of all ages and easily
rehearsed and performed.
All possibilities are
open for the joint
concert experience of
adult and children's
choirs.