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CD Releases 2010New CDs · June · May · April · March · February · January · CDs of the last years July / August 2010
Under the title „Darkness or Light“ Cornelius Hauptmann and Eric Schneider present selected lieder by Franz Schubert which move between the poles of transitoriness and becoming in life. In addition to well known lieder such as Der Tod und das Mädchen or Wanderers Nachtlied, less well known compositions read more ... * * *
Today the works of the Lithuanian composer, Vytautas Miskinis, have an established place among the repertoire of many choirs. It is the exciting combination of atmospheric tone painting and, in part, abrupt rhythms which make his music so fascinating. Here the young chamber choir consonare, conducted by its musical director, Almut Stümke, have recorded the most important choral works of this composer. read more ... * * *
This CD presents a sonorous cross section of the sacred vocal music of Hungary from the 20th century. Indeed, this music has its roots in the romantic era, however it developed into an entirely independent Hungarian vocal style. It became internationally well known through the works of Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály and Lajos Bárdos. The Budapesti Monteverdi Kórus Budapest read more ... * * *
The organists Helmut Brand, Ingo Bredenbach and Martin Hagner play on the organ of the Evangelische Stadtkirche Tutttlingen 67 of their own new chorale arrangements of well-known hymns from the Evangelische Gesangbuch (German Protestant Hymnbook). Carus has published these settings in a new edition. read more ... * * * June 2010
Of course today we can only have a limited idea as to how house music may have sounded and what form it took in the home of the Schumanns. The Calmus Ensemble provides a sketch of one such possible evening, and risks a look through the keyhole: One sat in a smaller circle together and the invited guests formed a small vocal ensemble for the purpose of sight-reading and singing the newest vocal compositions. Schumann and his wife played their newest pieces at the piano. Johannes Brahms was probably also read more ... * * *
Today Rheinberger is known primarily as a composer of motets for several voices and for masses for mixed choir. On the other hand, the fact that he also composed a whole series of solo works or choral works for women's voices is today much less well known, although he wrote such works throughout his entire creative life and a good number of these are among his most popular and commercially successful compositions. read more ... * * *
Among his French contemporaries, the composer André Jolivet was an outsider who consciously and successfully avoided the constraints of schools and stylistic trends. In spite of this fact, today, next to Olivier Messiaen, Jolivet is regarded as the most important composer of his generation. read more ... * * *
May 2010
Zelenka's settings of the Mass from 1739 to 1741 were composed without any official commission and represent independent works of art which are no longer bound to liturgical restrictions. During this time the extensive Missa votiva ZWV 18 was written to fulfill a vow after the composer had recovered from a serious illness. Following the great success ... read more * * *
Robert Schumann’s fairy-tale idyll Der Rose Pilgerfahrt (1851) was a regular part of the repertoire of singing societies well into the first third of the 20th century. The fact that today it has practically disappeared from concert life has frequently been blamed on the sentimental, prevailing romantic taste in connection with the libretto by Moritz Horn, which combined the typically romantic themes (redemption, the incursion of the fantastic into the world of reality) with Biedermeier ideals (the intact world of village life, domestic motherhood) which in the 20th century quickly went out of fashion. However, Schumann’s musical transposition shows his experimental ... read more * * *
Highly regarded as a composer, and a much sought after teacher of composition, Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger (1839–1901) was of great importance, with European stature. His more than 200 sacred works represent a significant contribution to church music of the 19th century. For many years Carus has made a name for itself through the rediscovery of this musical treasure. The basis for the CD series “Musica Sacra” is ... read more * * *
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The Messiah of the Swedish composer Sven-David Sandstrom was commissioned by the Oregon Bach Festival and the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart. In accordance with the wishes of these two institutions, the work is based on Charles Jennens' English libretto which Handel had set more than 260 years ago. This Messiah of the 21st century is characterized by great expressivity and orchestral color. ... read more
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The St. Mark Passion belongs to the lesser known treasures among the sacred opus of J.S. Bach. Thus, the present recording made in the Frauenkirche Dresden is all the more spectacular, since it is performed in the reconstructed version of 1731 published by Carus. The actor Dominique Horwitz recites the text of the Evangelist, ... read more * * *
In February 2010 Norbert Burgmüller would be 200 years old. The legacy of this composer from Düsseldorf includes, in addition to the two symphonies recorded on the present CD, a piano sonata, 22 Lieder, and several smaller works. Robert Schumann described Burgmüller's first symphony as “the most significant, noble work written in recent times.” . ... read more * * * January 2010
Barthold Heinrich Brockes' text for the passion oratorio later named after him is among the most influential and well-known Passion librettos of the early 18th century. The present version is the first recording on CD of the work based on the copy made by Johann Sebastian Bach himself. It is distinguished from the more well-known version ... read more * * *
This recording of works by Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, the least well-known of the four composer sons of Bach, marks the completion of the FBO's highly acclaimed series "Bach's Sons" on the Carus label. Unlike his prominent brothers Carl Philipp and Johann Christian, the "Bueckeburg Bach" never ventured beyond the provinces, ... read more * * *
The cantata cycle Die Tageszeiten, composed in Hamburg in 1757, belong to Telemann''s outstanding late works. With much invention, a symphony and four cantatas portray the couse of the day, from the awakening of nature to sunset. ... read more * * *
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