C'est particulièrement dans la musique chorale que Peteris Vasks révèle son profond attachement à sa patrie lettone. La nature, les coutumes, les traditions et l'idée de liberté sont les thèmes centra...
Vasks's popular Missa is now available in his original setting for SATB a cappella choir. The work, which runs for about half an hour, can also be performed with organ or string orchestra.
Revised edition of the famous choral songs by the composer of 'Bolero'. This cycle, too, is designed for a great climax. 'Nicolette' describes a simple, almost naïve fairy-tale character. The solos of...
Ces derniers temps, le ' pape ' de la musique chorale Clytus Gottwald a accompli toujours plus d'arrangements de pièces du répertoire postromantique pour chœur a cappella. Il dit : ' L'idée de rendre...
He was regarded as the German hope among the composers of his generation and as 'next man of New Music', but his early death quashed all such hopes of the music scene: Rudi Stephan died at the early a...
O gloriosa virginum ist eines der Werke aus Pendereckis ausgiebiger Beschäftigung mit geistlicher Chormusik. Er habe sich mit Formen, Stilen und Harmonien der Vergangenheit auseinandergesetzt und sein...
In 1999 a Bronze Age metal disc was found near the city of Nebra (Saxony-Anhalt/Germany), showing astronomical symbols and phenomena. Dated c. 1600 years BC, the so-called Nebra sky disk is regarded a...