Schott Kammerchor

Dieses Stück, das auf einem Gedicht der Dichterin Léna Monnerot basiert, ist das Geschenk eines 22-jährigen verliebten Komponisten an seine Freundin. Offrande wurde 1988 in der Kathedrale von Bayeux v...

Thierry Pécous Chorwerk lehnt sich sich an das bekannte französische Kinderlied 'Ne pleure pas Jeannette' [Weine nicht, Jeannette] an. Obwohl die Harmonik erweitert und die Stimmen streckenweise wie I...

Motetus II ist - wie Motetus I (SKR 20028) - ein räumlich konzipiertes Stück für zwei Chorgruppen. Im Gegensatz zum hymnischen Motetus I ist Motetus II jedoch ein Klagegesang, in den das 'De profundis...

After several attempts, Heinz Holliger finally managed to successfully set to music David Rokeah's poems which are dedicated to him. Shir Shavur is like a choir book with twelve very different movemen...

Psalm 112 known from Mendelssohn's musical setting is interpreted by Dieter Schnebel as a song of pilgrimage: Pilgrims setting out on a dangerous path hope for a happy return. Following the text that...

The text of this 'small sound piece' combines material from Petrarch's well-known Sonnet No. 132 and its Baroque adaptation by Martin Opitz, alternating between - and sometimes mixing - Italian and Ge...

Edizione riveduta dei famosi brani corali del compositore del Bolero. Anche questo ciclo è concepito per un grande climax. Nicolette descrive un personaggio semplice, quasi ingenuo, da fiaba. Gli asso...

Jörg Widmann komponierte die Signale für sechs Stimmen anlässlich der Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2003 ohne die Verwendung eines konkreten Textes. Die einzelnen Stimmen behandeln rein phonetisc...

gemischter Chor (SAAB/ATBB/TBBB)

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...

Ligeti wrote this piece during his studies, influenced by the style of his role models Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály. Time, dynamics and tempo changes provide delightful contrasts in the both modern a...

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...