Works for mixed choir a cappella
Repertoire of romantic choral music worth discovering: In his unaccompanied choral songs the expressive melodies of the song composer Schumann combine with a harmonically rich, sometimes even experimental composition. Though in current concert repertoire they are far less often performed than, for example, comparable works by Mendelssohn or Brahms, they are unjustly underestimated. Schumann himself wrote that he had composed the choral songs "with true passion", in the belief "that things like this did not yet exist". Schumann composed most of the choral songs, which are mainly homophonic, in 1849 for the "Verein für Chorgesang" founded by him and the Leipzig Liederkranz.
The volume brings together choral settings which where previously only available by Carus in separate editions, plus the choral song Glockentürmers Töchterlein which only exists in manuscript.
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- Der traurige Jäger
- Das Hochlandmädchen
- Zahnweh
- Mich zieht es nach dem Dörfchen hin
- Die alte gute Zeit
- Hochlandbursch
- An die Sterne
- Ungewisses Licht
- Zuversicht
- Talismane
- Nord oder Süd
- Am Bodensee
- Jägerlied
- Hirtenknaben-Gesang
- Good night
- Der König von Thule
- Schön-Rohtraut
- Heidenröslein
- Ungewitter
- Der Schmied
- Vom verwundeten Knaben
Contents
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Composer
Robert Schumann
| 1810-1856Robert Schumann is still primarily known as a composer of piano and lieder and as a symphonic composer. In his later creative years, however, he saw the composition of choral music as an important focus of his work. Even today, it is important to discover a largely unknown Schumann, whose choral music masterfully combines popular appeal and artistic ambition. Carus offers Schumann's complete works for mixed choir and for female choir a cappella and with piano. They demonstrate his love of experimentation, his sensitivity in the selection and musical realisation of the texts and, last but not least, his independent choral style, which places particular emphasis on refined details in the composition. Personal details
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Editor
Günter Graulich
| 1926The publisher, church musician and teacher Günter Graulich is one of the major personalities in German publishing of the post-war period. With his wife Waltraud he founded Carus-Verlag Stuttgart in 1972, which he built up from a 2-person family firm to a medium-sized business with around 60 employees. A trained church musician and Kantor for many years at the Matthäuskirche Stuttgart, he also directed the Motettenchor Stuttgart for 50 years. With his choir he made LP and CD recordings, and undertook numerous concert tours to other European countries and America. Personal details
Reviews
... Eine Fundgrube für Leiter weltlicher Chöre, da sie auch gut liegen und ähnlich wie die Klavierzyklen Schumanns bezaubernde Kleinodien darstellen. Die doppelchörigen Gesänge op. 141 sind allerdings durchaus anspruchsvoll zu singen. (gd)
Kirchenmusik im Bistum Limburg, 1/ 2019
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