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SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart & Marcus Creed – France (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:07 minutes | 656 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SWR Classic
French intellectuals, especially musicians and writers, were enchanted by the magic of Richard Wagner’s music, but they earnestly wanted to pursue new ideas for what might follow. They believed that music and art should be free from ‘German elements’ and they consequently wanted to establish a decidedly contrasting, French style of music. It was for this reason that Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns set up the Societé Nationale de Musique in 1871, tasking it with supporting new French compositions. Successive composers were fascinated by new developments in the great French music tradition and experimented with modal alternatives and aspects of counterpoint. Compositional clarity was expected to express the simple but poetic relationship between music and text, drawing on graceful melodic lines and a Renaissance-like serenity of expression.
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SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – Mendelssohn: Chöre für Männerstimmen (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:25:14 minutes | 860 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carus
Between 1820 and 1847, Felix Mendelssohn composed a total of 38 songs for a cappella male voices. Many of these were written for his own use at home or in the company of friends. He also liked to personally gift or dedicate these songs to others. This recording by the male voices of the SWR Vokalensemble under conductor Frieder Bernius affords the opportunity to enjoy these wonderful compositions that are among the least explored parts of Mendelssohn’s vast oeuvre.
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