SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.927600

Composed by Gabriel Faure. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Carus digital: Extra digital products. Full Score. Op. 6,2. Duration 3 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.927600).

ISBN 9790007296117. French. Text: Gautier, Theophile.

A prevailing melancholy mood is characteristic of Theophile Gautier's (1811-1872) poetry; a melancholy mood which inspired composers such as Hector Berlioz and Gabriel Faure to compose settings. Tristesse (Sadness) is taken from the 1838 collection La Comedie de la Mort (The Comedy of Death). With over 50 poems this is regarded as Gautier's major Romantic work. Although the narrator in the poem is conscious of the joy and zest for life of spring coming into bloom around him, he cannot share this: Helas! j'ai dans le coeur une tristesse affreuse. (Alas, in my heart I bear a terrible grief.). Faure's setting portrays this effect less as a dramatic sigh than a melancholic unworldliness with peaceful piano accompaniment in the minor key. This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing 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 ... Wo die Zitronen bluhn (Carus 83.514).

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.924400

Composed by Peter Cornelius. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Secular choral music. Separate edition with CD. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full score. Op. 15, No. 1. Duration 2 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.244/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.924400).

ISBN 9790007244392. Key: B flat major. Language: German. Text: Cornelius, Peter.

Sei mein! was written and composed by Peter Cornelius in 1865 for his future wife Bertha Jung. The composer set the poem in short rhyming lines using the scheme aaabcccb, recounting with loving humor what his beloved means to him. 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).

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).

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.924000

Composed by Claude Debussy. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Lieder. Secular choral music. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full score. Duration 2 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.240/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.924000).

ISBN 9790007244354. Language: French. Text: Bourget, Paul.

Claude Debussy's romance L'ame evaporee et souffrante is a setting of Paul Bourget's Romance from the collection Les aveux (1882). The song was first published in 1891 with Les cloches, but had probably been composed earlier in 1885. 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).

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).

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.926400

Composed by Camille Saint-Saens. Arranged by Denis Rouger, Denis Rouger. Carus digital: Extra digital products. Full Score. Composed 1862. Op. 13, No. 1. Duration 5 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.926400).

ISBN 9790007261870. French. Text: Victor Hugo.

In his poem Soiree en mer, Victor Hugo describes how the sea can be perceived very differently by two lovers at the same time in the same place. While the man perceives the deepening shadows on the dancing waves, the woman marvels at the stars shining ever brighter in the firmament. In nature, as in the words of the poem, the painful ambiguity that represents life at its core can be experienced. Like no other poet, Hugo captures this almost unbearable simultaneity of living and dying, of love and suffering. Saint-Saens translates this into music - probably the most ephemeral and contemporary of all art forms. His balanced musical form leaves plenty of room for the poetry and his subtle variations in timbre, which also inspired Denis Rouger to his choral arrangement, create a seething motion under the surface of the sea.

This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing 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 ...wo die Ztronen bluhn (Carus 83.514).

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.925700

Composed by Clara Schumann (Wieck). Arranged by Denis Rouger. Separate edition with CD. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full score. 12.11. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.257/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.925700).

ISBN 9790007249199. Key: A flat major. Language: German. Text: Ruckert, Friedrich.

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.924800

Composed by Gabriel Faure. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Separate edition with CD. Organ music based on hymns, Lieder. Full score. Op. 1, No. 1. 8 pages. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.248/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.924800).

ISBN 9790007246594. Key: D major. Language: French. Text: Hugo, Victor.

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.925900

Composed by Fanny Cecile Mendelssohn. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Separate edition with CD. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full score. H. 298. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.259/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.925900).

ISBN 9790007249212. Key: B flat major. Language: German. Text: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang.

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.924900

Composed by Gabriel Faure. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Separate edition with CD. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full score. Op. 7,1. 8 pages. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.249/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.924900).

ISBN 9790007245870. Key: D minor. Language: French. Text: Bussine, Romain.

SSATB Choir, Piano

SKU: CA.924300

Composed by Gabriel Faure. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Secular choral music. Separate edition with CD. Lieder, Secular choral music. Full score. Op. 23,1. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.243/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.924300).

ISBN 9790007244385. Key: C minor. Language: French. Text: Prudhomme, Sully.

Composed by Neil Harmon. For SATB choir, Soprano Solo, Keyboard (Piano or Organ) or Full Orchestra. Medium. Choral score. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers

Composed by Camille Saint- Saens (1835-1921). Arranged by Denis Rouger. Carus digital: Extra digital products. Full Score. Composed 1868. Duration 3 minutes. Published by Carus Verlag

By Dietrich Buxtehude. Edited by Daniel Pinkham. For SSATB, organ (piano) or with accompaniment of 2 violin, 2 viola (violin III), violoncello/contrabass or 2 violin, organ (piano). (Eng-Lat). Sacred Choral Works. Published by C.F. Peters.