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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Hanssler Classics
Salesrank: 592452
Released: August 8, 2006 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Strauss, Nono, Wagner Track Listing:
1. Der Abend ('Senke strahlender Gott!'), song for chorus, Op. 34/1 (TrV 182/1)
2. Sarà dolce tacere, for 8 vocal soloists
3. Träume (after Wagner), for unaccompanied chorus
4. Cori di Didone, for chorus & percussion: La sera si prolunga
5. Cori di Didone, for chorus & percussion: Ora il vento s'è fatto silenzioso
6. Cori di Didone, for chorus & percussion: Nella tenebra, muta
7. Cori di Didone, for chorus & percussion: A bufera s'è aperto, al buio, un porto
8. Cori di Didone, for chorus & percussion: Il mio declinio abbelirò, stasera
9. Cori di Didone, for chorus & percussion: Finale. Piú non muggisce, non sussurra il mare
10. Im Treibhaus (after Wagner), for unaccompanied chorus
11. Liebeslied, for chorus & instruments
12. Hymne ('Jakob! Dein verlorner Sohn'), song for chorus, Op. 34/2 (TrV 182/2)
13. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (after Mahler), for unaccompanied chorus
Editorial Review:
This recording presents three different, utterly contrasting responses to the quest for expression and the solution to the old problem of how to merge text and music into a unity. The common theme linking these compositions – "The Passion and Pains of Love" – has been wrested from the texts of these choral works: they are poetic declarations of love, descriptions of nature with erotic and intimate imagery, and poems that speak of unfulfilled yearning and breaking hearts. Their poetic quality opens a range of expression every bit as varied as the three musical settings they stimulated. A spectacular program of choral and ensemble virtuosity featuring music from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Rare recordings feature the amazing arrangements of Clytus Gottwald. The selections contrast Wagner’s Romantic but forward-looking compositional style with the Late Romantic development of Mahler and Richard Strauss, and the serial technique of avant-garde! composer Luigi Nono. The SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart and Director Marcus Creed are among the most highly respected virtuoso ensembles specializing in the performance of new music for choir.
