SSATB Choir, Piano
SKU: CA.924100
Composed by Charles
Francois Gounod. Arranged
by Denis Rouger. Lieder.
Secular choral music.
Lieder, Secular choral
music. Full score.
Duration 4 minutes. Carus
Verlag #CV 09.241/00.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.924100).
ISBN
9790007244361. Language:
French. Text: Gounod,
Charles.
In Charles
Gounod's L'absent,
composed in 1873, the
absent one asks at night
time whether the beloved
remembers him in the
light of the moon and at
the sound of the evening
prayer bells. These art
songs were originally
composed not for chamber
choir, but for solo voice
and piano. Denis Rouger
has carefully adapted
them to suit the
requirements and
expressive possibilities
offered by a larger
ensemble, without losing
the 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
Kennst du das Land ...
(Carus 83.495).
