SSATB Choir, Piano
SKU: CA.924500
Composed by Hugo Wolf.
Arranged by Denis Rouger.
Secular choral music.
Separate edition with CD.
Lieder, Secular choral
music. Full score.
Duration 3 minutes. Carus
Verlag #CV 09.245/00.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.924500).
ISBN
9790007244408. Key: E
flat major. Language:
German. Text: Morike,
Eduard.
Hugo Wolf
composed over 250 songs
to texts by the greatest
poets of his day. One of
the best-known of these
is Verborgenheit. In
Denis Rouger's
arrangement it reveals
its own momentum which
does not conflict with
the original masterpiece,
but presents new facets
alongside it, inviting us
to discover something new
in the old. 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).
