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Chorpartitur - in memoriam Vladimir Zalipski

Nunc dimittis, also known as Simeon's canticle, is taken from the New Testament (Luke II, 29-32); it is a short paean which Simeon took up when, as promised by the Holy Spirit, he was allowed to see t...

Mahler's song The Two Blue Eyes of my Beloved is a part of the cycle Songs of a Wayfarer from 1896. 1987 was the year in which Gustav Mahler published his Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a W...

Chorpartitur - aus dem 4. Band der GA

Chorpartitur - aus dem 4. Band der GA

Chorpartitur - aus dem 6. Band der GA

Chorpartitur - aus dem 6. Band der GA

Chorpartitur - nach Texten aus 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'.

This love song with words in Sicilian dialect was composed in 2002 by Luciano Berio - one year before his death. It is dedicated to the author and philosopher Umberto Eco.

From Sieben Frühe Lieder, the choral transcription of Im Zimmer provides a fascinating glimpse at the compositional bent of a young Alban Berg, decried by his mentor Arnold Schönberg as 'too vocal. '...

I have developed a highly formalised compositional system, which I have been using to write my music for twenty years. Summa is the most strict and enigmatic work in this series, said Arvo Pärt in 199...

As part of the Rhythm Voices series, German drummer/composer Richard Filz gives us Beam Me Up!, a quick, lively piece for choir or four-part voices written in a percussive style. Each voice part imita...

Richard Filz turns an unpleasant situation into a musical one in Rushhour in Rio, which turns the cacophony of car horns into a frenzied, lively musical work for mixed choir. For intermediate groups a...

As part of Universal Edition's Rhythm Voices choral series, Richard Filz gives us Monsun for mixed choir, depicting the atmospheric swell and recess of the monsoon rains, using vocal percussion. For i...

Psalm 133, a pilgrim song of David with three verses, is one of the short psalms. It describes the blessing of brotherly unity: Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to live in unity! Arvo...

Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952) has written more then 400 compositions in all areas, and has developed a keen interest in architecture, painting, philosophy, and more, all of which are used as inspiration for...

When Agustin Gutierrez Canet, the Mexican ambassador to Estonia, invited me to Mexico, my interest and notions of the country were strongly affected be the famous legend of Juan Diego and his reports...