SKU: CA.221400
Composed by Various.
Edited by Mirjam James.
Choral collections,
LIEDERPROJEKT.
Conductor's score, with
CD. Secular choral music.
Choir Book. 84 pages.
Carus Verlag #CV
02.214/00. Published by
Carus Verlag (CA.221400).
ISBN
9790007188573.
The
Folk Songs choral
collection explores the
musical world of Great
Britain and Ireland. It
contains 21 arrangements
of English-language verse
songs, canons, and
ballads for mixed
unaccompanied chorus. The
folk songs are as diverse
as the stories they tell:
from the moving
Greensleeves and Two
hearts beat as one,
through charming settings
such as A rosebud by my
early walk and There were
three ravens, to saucy
and tongue-in-cheek songs
such as Dashing away with
the smoothing iron and
The mother-in-law. The
stylistic treatment is
very varied: the
collection contains both
original settings from
the 13th century as well
as arrangements specially
commissioned from
contemporary composers
for the collection. The
settings are in three to
five parts, and the vocal
parts sometimes divide.
They are by well-known
British and Irish
composers such as
Benjamin Britten, Gustav
Holst, Ralph Vaughan
Williams, and Charles
Villiers Stanford, as
well as contemporary
composers such as John
Rutter and Carsten
Gerlitz - who give a new
twist to these
traditional songs. Calmus
Ensemble has recorded six
arrangements from this
collection for their CD
Folk Songs (Carus
83.034).