Solo SATBarB
SKU:
CA.923300
Arranged by
Ludwig Bohme.
Contemporary Choir Music.
Folk songs, Secular
choral music. Full Score.
Duration 4 minutes. Carus
Verlag #CV 09.233/00.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.923300).
ISBN
M-007-24184-1. Language:
Russian. Text: Nekrassow,
Nikolai
Alexejewitsch.
Koro
beiniki is perhaps the
best-known Russian folk
song in the world. Anyone
who played Gameboy in
days long past will
surely still remember the
Tetris melody, but
perhaps they wouldn't
know that this melody
comes from Russia and
tells a pretty nocturnal
romance which allows some
leeway for interpretation
... Well - this is
Korobeiniki! For this
arrangement, I was
looking for the greatest
possible contrast to the
Tetris music: a kind of
five-part fugue in five
verses for five singers;
a folk polyphony, so to
speak, which -
respectfully but with a
twinkle in the eye -
turns the contrapuntal
art form into an
arrangement, but at some
point degenerates because
one singer likes his folk
song tune so much that he
can't get enough of it
and pushes himself more
and more into the
foreground ... (Ludwig
Bohme).
