Bertold Hummel: spartiti medio

When it was possible to celebrate the Catholic Mass in the German language as well, Bertold Hummel wrote his motet Ehre sei Gott for mixed four-part choir. This piece is a 'German gloria' and can be p...

This 'utility music' in the best sense of the word is warmly recommended for all male-voice choirs. Bertold Hummel wrote a-cappella choral music mainly for use in church services. He composed Cantate...

Bertold Hummel's a-cappella choral music was mainly written for being used in services.The missa 'Cantabo Domino' was composed in 1958 for the liturgical festival of a Catholic student community in Fr...

Missa brevis for mixed choir and eight wind instruments Op. 5 was created in 1951 and premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival of Contemporary Music the following year. The Ordinary of the Mass (Kyrie...

Als umfassende, nicht nur chormusikalische Offenbarung erweist sich Bertold Hummels Adventskantate Offenbarung neuen Lebens für Alt-Solo, gemischten Chor und Kammerorchester op. 8. In seinem 1953 im A...

A harmonically and rhythmically interesting yet not too challenging work in a moderately contemporary idiom which is suitable for recitals or competitions.

The Three Little Pieces for Strings are an early work, composed by Bertold Hummel for the joy of music-making. The degree of difficulty of this composition has intentionally been kept such that it can...

Als umfassende, nicht nur chormusikalische Offenbarung erweist sich Bertold Hummels Adventskantate Offenbarung neuen Lebens für Alt-Solo, gemischten Chor und Kammerorchester op. 8. In seinem 1953 im A...

The pieces are meant as a kind of organ proper of Mass. Chorales and chants from the Catholic hymnbook are used for the music of the movements 'Halleluja', 'Offertorium' and 'Communio'. According to t...

At funeral or memorial services and ceremonies, the traditional, slowly marching funeral music, the Tombeau, still plays an important musical role today. In most cases, such musics were created for a...

At funeral or memorial services and ceremonies, the traditional, slowly marching funeral music, the Tombeau, still plays an important musical role today. In most cases, such musics were created for a...

The tripartite work harks back to musical practice from the pre-Baroque period when wind ensembles performed compact, brief pieces in churches, on town squares and from towers. The three movements Int...

Das Concertino classico für Violine und Klavier oder Streicher von Bertold Hummel entstand im Sommer 1999 als sein Enkelkind Fabian auf der Geige gerade die erste Lage beherrschte. Die Idee war, begin...

Missa brevis for mixed choir and eight wind instruments Op. 5 was created in 1951 and premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival of Contemporary Music the following year. The Ordinary of the Mass (Kyrie...

Missa brevis for mixed choir and eight wind instruments Op. 5 was created in 1951 and premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival of Contemporary Music the following year. The Ordinary of the Mass (Kyrie...

je 1x Oboe 1, Oboe 2, Fagott 1, Fagott 2, Trompete 1 in C, Trompete 2 in C, Posaune 1, Posaune 2, Schlagwerk, Orgel

Created in 1955, this piece, like the Cello Sonata Op. 2 composed a few years earlier, shows Bertold Hummel's familiarity with 'his' instrument which he studied with Atis Teichmanis. The entire work i...

Bertold Hummel's sonata created in 1950 captivates the listener through its succinctness. The combination of the piano's melodic aphorisms with the expressive phrases of the cello (Hummel was self-tau...

Die Großform des einsätzigen Werkes ist siebenteilig. Eine langsame Einleitung beginnt mit Multiphonics des Saxophons und Beckenklängen, die mit einem Kontrabaßbogen angestrichen werden. Vibraphon und...

The piece is characterized by the use of French folk-song melodies which are integrated into their own thematic material. In the first movement, Prologue, the solo instrument stands out while declaimi...