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SWR Vokalensemble & Marcus Creed – Holliger: Die Jahreszeiten (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 20:01 minutes | 181 MB | Genre: Classical
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Heinz Robert Holliger (born 21 May 1939) is a Swiss virtuoso oboist, composer and conductor. Celebrated for his versatility and technique, Holliger is among the most prominent oboists of his generation. His repertoire includes Baroque and Classical pieces, but he has regularly engaged in lesser known pieces of Romantic music, as well as his own compositions.
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SWR Vokalensemble & Marcus Creed – Baltikum (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:11:15 minutes | 614 MB | Genre: Classical
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The folk music of the Baltic peoples can be traced back to pagan times whereas the development of their art music did not start until around 100 years ago. Every country has its own founding fathers where music is concerned: the Estonians admire Heino Eller and the Latvians Jazeps Vitols as the founder of their respective national music culture. Arvo Part was one of Eller’s students. The founding figure of Lithuanian art music and art is Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, who created fugues and sonatas as well as symphonic poems, music for piano, and choral works. This is the ninth and last installment of the SWR Vokalensemble series dedicated to musical portraits of different countries and the last release with its chief conductor Marcus Creed. The SWR Vokalensemble is internationally renowned as one of the best choirs for modern a cappella repertoire, its performances are characterized by exquisite mastership.
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SWR Vokalensemble – Ligeti: Complete Works for a cappella Choir (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:54:25 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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In addition to his popular compositions such as orchestral works and chamber music, György Ligeti also wrote vocal music, among them numerous and demanding a cappella choral works. These, just like his canonically treated instrumental works, reflect his changes of style. With the exception of the Latin ‘Lux aeterna’ (1966) and ‘Three Fantasias’ based on Friedrich Hölderlin (1982) Ligeti exclusively set Hungarian poetry to music, showing a marked preference for texts by Balint Balassa (1554-1594) and Sándor Weöres (1913-1989). Ligeti wanted to set the respective contents to music programmatically but focussed especially on particular phonetic sound sequences, rhythms, intonations and accentuations of the Hungarian language. Translations of this speech music are nigh on impossible and even dispensable as you do not have to understand the words in order to experience the choral works as music that is rich in tone colours, rhythmically concise and extremely expressive. The radio choir of SWR is one of the international top ensembles on the professional choir scene. Ever since the ensemble was founded almost 75 years ago it has devoted its passion and extraordinary vocal competence to exemplary performances and the further development of vocal music. Award-winning Yuval Weinberg has been the chief conductor of the SWR Vokalensemble since the beginning of the season 2020/2021.
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SWR Vokalensemble & Marcus Creed – Wolfgang Rihm: Sieben Passions-Texte für sechs Stimmen (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 27:19 minutes | 238 MB | Genre: Classical
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Die Uraufführung der Passions-Texte were also premiered at the same time as Vigilia, a work that supplements the seven passion texts with instrumental interludes. In the last piece “voices and instruments unite in a request for forgiveness.” (Clemens Goldberg). Members of the musikFabrik ensemble joined the vocal ensemble Singer Pur. Stefan Asbury conducted. The total duration is 65′.
Wolfgang Rihm completed his DEUS PASSUS Passion pieces after Luke in 2000. When the vocal ensemble Singer Pur asked him for a cappella music for Holy Week, the composer initially hesitated. He would rather “das Mönchsgewand wieder ablegen”. But then he felt so drawn to the project that he set about setting the seven selected texts to music straight away.
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