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Hohes Lied (Bernius)

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The polyphonic choral arrangements by Clytus Gottwald, the founder and only director of the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, are legendary and in the meantime belong to the established repertoire of many professional concert choirs. Frieder Bernius juxtaposed four of Gottwald’s most well-known arrangements for multiple voices of works by Debussy and Ravel, as well two original compositions from Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (1908–2002) and Carl Christian Fasch (1736–1800). Fasch composed his ambitious 16-voice Mass as a cornerstone for the founding of the famous Berliner Singakademie. To be sure, in its extreme use of writing for multiple voices the Mass refers to the great Roman tradition of Palestrina from the 16th century, but at the same time makes use of the new possibilities of choral sound pointing towards the 19th century. The Gottwald arrangements of Schumann’s Vier Gesängen after poems by von Eichendorff – a world premiere recording – round out this CD of discriminating and fascinating repertoire.
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  • Mondnacht
  • Soupir. Vokaltranskription von Clytus Gottwald
  • Les Angélus. Vocal transcription by Clytus Gottwald
  • Des pas sur la neige. Vocal transcription from Clytus Gottwald
  • 1. Dialogue
  • 2. La Voix du Bien-Aimé
  • 3. Le Songe
  • 4. Le Roi Salomon
  • 5. Le Jardin clos
  • 6. La Sulamite
  • 7. Epithalame
  • 1. Kyrie
  • 2. Christe eleison
  • 3. Kyrie
  • 4. Gloria
  • 5. Et in terra pax
  • 6. Laudamus te
  • 7. Gratias
  • 8. Domine Deus
  • 9. Quoniam
  • 10. Cum Sancto Spiritu
  • Frühlingsfahrt
  • Wehmut
  • Waldesgespräch
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Additional material
  • Collage

    En hiver, la mort meurtrière
    entre dans les maisons ;
    elle cherche la sœur, le père,
    et leur joue du violon.
    Quelque hiver sur mon front morose
    un flocon de neige creva,
    que de l'ongle ...
    La mort
    leur joue du violon,
    du violon de glace,
    la mort ...
    Que contre elle ne protège
    pas une flamme au dedans.

    Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)

    ...
  • Collage

    Im Winter tritt der mörderische Tod
    in die Häuser
    Er sucht die Schwester, den Vater
    und spielt ihnen auf der Violine.
    Irgendein Winter ließ auf meiner
    mürrischen Stirn eine Schneeflocke bersten,
    dass der Nagel ...
    Der Tod
    spielt ihnen auf der Violine,
    der Violine aus Eis,
    der Tod,
    vor ihm schützt keine Flamme
    im Innern.

    Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)

    ...
  • Collage

    In winter murdureous death
    enters into the houses;
    he seeks the sister, the father,
    and plays the violin for them.
    Some winter left a snowflake
    to burst on my disgruntled brow,
    that the nail ...
    Death
    plays the violin for them,
    the violin of ice,
    death ...
    from him a flame within
    gives no protection.

    Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)

    ...
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    Les Angélus

    Cloches chrétiennes pour les matines
    sonnant au coeur d’espérer encore,
    Angélus angélisés d’aurore.

    Hélas! où sont vos prières câlines?

    Vous étiez de si douces folies,
    et chanterelles d’amour prochaines!
    Aujourd’hui ma souveraine est ma peine,

    et toutes matines abolies.
    Je ne vis plus que d’ombre et de soir.

    Les las! angélus pleurent la mort,

    et là dans mon cœur résigné
    dort la seule veuve de tout espoir.

    ...
  • Unbenanntes Dokument

    Das Angelusläuten

    Christliche Glocken zur Frühmesse,
    deren Klang das Herz noch hoffen lässt,
    durch das Morgenrot engelhaft verklärtes Angelusläuten.

    Ach! Wo sind eure schmeichelnden Gebete geblieben?

    Ihr wart von so süßer Entrückung,
    nahe Künderinnen der Liebe.
    Heute werde ich von meinen Schmerz beherrscht,

    die Frühmesse gibt es nicht mehr.
    Ich lebe nur noch von Schatten und Abenddämmerung.

    Ach! Die Angelusglocken beweinen den Tod,

    und hier, in meinem verzweifelten Herzen,

    ...
  • Unbenanntes Dokument

    The Angelus

    Christian bells at matins
    ringing the heart to hope anew,
    Angelus, anglicised by dawn.

    Alas! Where are your tender prayers?

    You were such sweet folly,
    and harbinger of love to come!
    Today, my sorrow reigns supreme,

    and matins are no more.
    I live but in shadows and twilight

    weary Angelus, mourning death,

    And here, in my resigned heart,
    sleeps but the widow of all hope!

    ...
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  • The choral conductor, composer and musicologist Clytus Gottwald (1925 - 2023) made significant contributions to contemporary choral music. As editor for New Music at Südfunk Stuttgart and founder and director of the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, he was in productive exchange with his contemporaries, Pierre Boulez, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen and many others. With his Schola Cantorum, a 16-voice chamber vocal ensemble, Gottwald decisively shaped the a cappella choral culture of the highest technical level that is taken for granted today. Clytus Gottwald's transcriptions of piano songs and instrumental pieces for unaccompanied choir are appreciated by choirs all over the world. Modelled on the style of Ligeti, his works set the highest of musical standards. Clytus Gottwald has received several awards for his services, including the Cultural Prize of Baden-Württemberg in 2009, the European Church Music Prize in 2012, and the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2014. His importance for the development of contemporary choral music cannot be overestimated. Personal details
  • The Kammerchor Stuttgart is regarded as one of the best ensembles of its kind. Over its fifty-year existence, Frieder Bernius has developed the choir into an exceptional ensemble acclaimed by audiences and press alike. This has led to invitations for the choir to perform at all the important European festivals. In Germany the chamber choir performs at festivals and in concert halls in repertoire ranging from the 17th to the 21st century. Frieder Bernius and his ensemble have received numerous accolades for their contribution to new music. The Kammerchor Stuttgart has made over 80 CDs and LPs, numerous of which have been awarded international recording prizes (including the Edison award, Diapason d’or, Gramophone Choice, Classical Internet Award, International Classical Music Award, and German Record Critics’ Award prizes). The International Federation for Choral Music has invited the ensemble to sing at the 1st, 4th and 10th World Symposia on Choral Music in Vienna, Sydney and Seoul. Regular tours of North America and Asia since 1988 and a South America tour reflect the Kammerchor Stuttgart’s international reputation. Since 1984 the top ensemble has also been invited to Israel biennially. Personal details
  • Frieder Bernius’s work has earned great worldwide recognition. He is in demand internationally as a conductor and as a teacher. His principal artistic collaborators are the ensembles he founded himself, the Kammerchor Stuttgart, the Barockorchester Stuttgart, the Hofkapelle Stuttgart and the Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart. As a guest conductor, he has collaborated repeatedly with, for example, the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and the Streicherakademie Bozen. Great stylistic versatility is Frieder Bernius’s hallmark. Whether he conducts vocal works by Monteverdi, Bach, Händel, Mozart, Beethoven, Fauré and Ligeti, stage music by Mendelssohn or symphonies by Haydn, Burgmüller and Schubert, his work always aims for a sound that is at once unmistakably personal and at the same time oriented towards the original period sound ideal. He devotes himself equally to the rediscovery of 18th century operas and to first performances of contemporary compositions. He is particularly interested in the musical history of southwestern Germany. Carus-Verlag has awarded Frieder Bernius a Golden CD for his complete recording of the sacred music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The award was presented to him during the German Choir Festival in Stuttgart 2016. The sale of over 250,000 recordings, which has been acclaimed with a number of awards, has made a not insignificant contribution to what today is the obvious presence of Mendelssohn's complete œuvre in the concert repertoire. Personal details

Reviews

[...] Was hier interpretiert wird, erfordert Solisten und/oder Profis im Ensemblesingen. Unterm Etikett Kammerchor Stuttgart sind sie vereinigt. Bei einem exquisiten Programm. [...] Dirigent Frieder Bernius und seine Sänger bieten Vokalqualität oberster Güte.

Johannes Adam
Badische Zeitung, 15.05.2009

 

Anspruchsvoll, faszinierend, exklusiv und zumeist unbekannt: was sich auf dieser CD versteckt, ist wirklich ein Geheimtipp für Liebhaber des Aussergewöhnlichen. [...]

Christian Albrecht
Musik & Liturgie, 5/09

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