Geistliche Chormusik (Carus Classics)
The Carus Classics series features outstanding CD productions from Carus’ past library of recordings. The series has been designed exclusively by the well-known graphic artists Friedrich Forssman und Cornelia Feyll.
This selection of Brahms’s sacred choral music shows a clear line of development from the early works, such as the songlike Ave Maria, to the contrapuntal masterpieces, the motets with their art of motivic variation.
This selection of Brahms’s sacred choral music shows a clear line of development from the early works, such as the songlike Ave Maria, to the contrapuntal masterpieces, the motets with their art of motivic variation.
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Composer
Johannes Brahms
| 1833-1897Johannes Brahms' study of musical tradition was of crucial importance to his output: he combined church modes, canonic technique, Baroque style and diction, Bach's counterpoint and Beethoven's thematic-motivic work with the harmonic and expressive achievements of Romanticism to form his own distinctive style. In this respect his choral songs and vocal quartets (e.g. the “Liebeslieder Waltzes” and “New Liebeslieder Waltzes”), often to folk song texts, in which a musical microcosm unfolds, are examplary. His “Deutsches Requiem”, available from Carus in several different versions, constitutes one of the most fascinating confessions of faith in the history of music. Personal details
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Preface writer
Karl-Michael Komma
| 1913-2012Karl Michael Komma, born 24 December 1913 in Asch (Bohemia), died 2012 in Memmingen. Pupil of W. Fortner (composition), F. Langer (piano), G. Szell (conducting) and G. Becking (musicology), among others. 1940 Director of the Reichenberg Music School. 1954 lecturer in music history at the State University of Music in Stuttgart, from 1960 professor of composition, music theory and music history. After his retirement in 1978, he continued as a lecturer in church music history until 1988, with a lively activity as a composer, organist, chamber music and song accompanist and lecturer. In Reutlingen, he rendered outstanding services to the ‘Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra’ and the music school. He founded the ‘Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde’ and the ‘Musica nova’ series, which he also directed for two decades. Personal details
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Ensemble
Roger Norrington
| 1934
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Ensemble
The Schütz Choir of London
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Soloist - soprano
Rosemary Hardy
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Soloist - alto
Cherith Milburn Fryer
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Soloist - organ
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent