SATB Choir, Piano
SKU:
CA.926600
From:
Sonne, Mond und
Sterne. Composed by
Peter Schindler. Carus
digital: Extra digital
products. Full Score.
Duration 3 minutes.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.926600).
ISBN
9790007295554.
German.
Peter
Schindler's full-length
secular choral work
Sonne, Mond und Sterne
(Sun, Moon and Stars)
narrates a love story
based on old texts which
are given a new
interpretation through
these musical settings.
Some individual numbers
were published in spring,
and now more movements
with piano accompaniment
are available in print
and digitally.-
choral work of medium
difficulty- will
appeal to experienced
Brahms Requiem singers as
well as ambitious chamber
or youth choirs with a
gospel, pop or jazz
background-cross-over
between jazz, chanson,
and chamber music
Peter Schindler
about O Ewigkeit:We
step on the stage of
life, pull the curtains
wide open and venture a
glance at the eternal
course of the stars. A
powerful choral tutti
sounds, the key note of C
held on in the basses
emphasizes the
steadfastness of
eternity, and above this
is chromatic movement in
the upper voices which
produces friction. In
the following softer
central section, female
and male voices sing
separately. They sing in
characteristic Gregorian
style in vivid images of
the immeasurable sand in
the ocean, of tears and
trickles, of the great
beginning and the end of
the cosmos. The
verses from 1625 convey
an image of astonishment,
of seeking and not least
also of comfort. The text
functions as a framework,
as it is repeated in a
shortened form in the
last number of Sonne,
Mond und Sterne. It
encapsulates the many
life situations which are
sketched and sung about
in the staged cantata in
metaphysical
questions.