Manch einer suchen in Almas Musik den spezifisch Mahlerschen Ton vergebens. Dies gründet zweifellos auf der Tatsache, dass sie den Ideen der jungen Wiener Avantgarde um Schönberg und Zemlinsky weit nä...
Der bereits legendäre Chordirigent der Avantgarde wird 80 Jahre alt: Clytus Gottwald, Gründer und langjähriger Dirigent der Schola Cantorum Stuttgart. Ebenso bekannt wie gern gesungen sind inzwischen...
Lately, the 'choir pope' Clytus Gottwald has increasingly arranged late Romantic repertoire pieces for a cappella choir. He said: 'The idea to make music from around the turn of the 19th to the 20th c...
He was regarded as the German hope among the composers of his generation and as 'next man of New Music', but his early death quashed all such hopes of the music scene: Rudi Stephan died at the early a...
Mahler's song The Two Blue Eyes of my Beloved is a part of the cycle Songs of a Wayfarer from 1896. 1987 was the year in which Gustav Mahler published his Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a W...
Chorpartitur - nach Texten aus 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'.
From Sieben Frühe Lieder, the choral transcription of Im Zimmer provides a fascinating glimpse at the compositional bent of a young Alban Berg, decried by his mentor Arnold Schönberg as 'too vocal. '...
Using text from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn), Mahler wrote this song, which translates as 'where the lovely trumpets play,' while on vacation in South Tyrol, Austria. Focusing on the...
Two of Zemlinsky's representative songs from the early 20th century are presented here by editor Clytus Gottwald: Als ihr Geliebter schied, Op. 13 No. 4, and Und kehrt er einst heim, Op. 13 No. 5, in...
Gottwald always seems to find forgotten gems, and these Three Songs by Hans Sommer are an example. Based on texts by Goethe, they are arranged in inspired form for mixed chorus. For advanced choirs.
UE choral editor Clytus Gottwald brings us Three Early Songs of Anton Bruckner (Frühlingslied, Herbstkummer, and Im April), originally for voice and piano and now in settings for six-part choir. For a...
With songs translated by Clytus Gottwald, these three short songs for choir are a perfect introduction to Austrian composer, Joseph Marx's, body of work.
Composer and choir master Clytus Gottwald comments on his transcription of Anton Webern’s Im Sommerwind (1904) as follows: 'First of all I had to eliminate all those parts of the source material that...
For almost 30 years the conductor and musicologist Clytus Gottwald has made transcriptions of songs and instrumental pieces for unaccompanied choir by a wide variety of different composers, which have...