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This gravely beautiful choral work, dedicated to a victim of the Lockerbie air crash of 1988, consists of five sections and provides only two of the traditional requiem texts - 'Kyrie' and 'Agnus Dei'...

Sea Songs, commissioned jointly by Ars Nova Copenhagen and Glasgow Concert Halls, is a kind of sequel to Martland's Street Songs (originally written for the Kings Singers and Evelyn Glennie). As with...

The opening lines of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time provide the text for Gerald Barry's Long Time. Beginning 'For a long time I used to go to bed early', the work unfolds over gently rising an...

'Lay VII' is part of the extensive cycle of the Machaut Transcriptions (ED 21070) in which Holliger studies the great 14th-century poet-musician in different levels of arrangement. The original Lay VI...

Chorpartitur - gemischter Chor

Agnus Dei from the Polish Requiem for eight-part choir was written after the death of the Primate of the Polish Catolic Church Stefan Wyszynski. It is slow in tempo, supplicatory in nature and quasi-t...

The Latvian region Zemgale is infamous for atrocities committed in the 13th century and in 1949. It has become a symbol for the deportation of Latvians. Vasks uses the text in a linear as well as in a...

This dramatic episode is taken from Pushkin's novella about the execution of a Russian social revolutionary in 1775 and presented by the composer as an acoustic scene. Here is something really special...

The beauty of the Latvian landscape inspired many of my works, for it has given me moments of exceptional happiness. The plains are a dominant feature of the Latvian countryside, a place where one can...

Dieses Stück, ein Auftragswerk von Odile Amossé für ihren Kammerchor EVOA, wurde von Passagen aus den Lusiaden, dem bekanntesten Werk des portugiesischen Dichters Luis de Camoes, inspiriert. Es beschw...

Matthew Brown interprets the liturgical phrase Dona Nobis Pacem (meaning 'grant us peace') as the lifelong struggle of individuals to achieve peace in their own lives. These ideas are expressed by the...

One of Gavin Bryars' early major choral works, On Photography uses texts by Pope Leo XIII combining a modern subject matter (photography) and archaic language (Latin) with music of timeless beauty. Th...

gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (SBar), Kinderchor (SMezA), 2 Orgel und Instrumental-Ensemble

A reflexion on the central Christian values of faith, love and hope, described as 'Sinfonia sacra'. The musical setting of Martin Luther's text is published in a new arrangement for the upcoming Luthe...