SAM-Klang

In October-November 1888, J. P. E. Hartmann composed six songs to texts by Ernst von der Recke. These are the then 83-year-old composer’s tribute to love. In the sequence presented here, the narrator...

This volume continues the selection of familiar and popular songs celebrating the Danish beginning of spring and complements Volume 1, Danske Sange - Forår I (Item no. HL01141209 / ISBN: 9781705184493...

This volume presents a collection of Danish secular songs for summer evening by prominent composers of the Danish song tradition. The selection reflects a lyrical and atmospheric repertoire associated...

This volume presents a selection of Danish sacred evening songs by leading composers of the Danish church and hymn tradition. The collection reflects a contemplative and atmospheric repertoire centred...

Die Schöpfung is not only a decisive high point in Joseph Haydn's career as a composer, but also marks a turning point in the history of the oratorio in general. On the threshold of the 19th century,...

Inter natos mulierum (KV 72) is a setting of the offertory for the feast of St John the Baptist. It was written in Salzburg in May or June 1771 after the return of Mozart and his father from an extend...

In addition to his masses and the Requiem, Mozart wrote an abundance of smaller sacred choral works for the church. Misericordias Domini KV 222 (205a) was created at the beginning of 1775 in Munich as...

The name SAM-Klang takes the three voice parts from the arrangements - Soprano, Alto and Men - and combines it with the Scandinavian and German words for ‘sound’ to create the portmanteau word ‘sound...

The name SAM-Klang takes the three voice parts from the arrangements Soprano, Alto and Men and combines it with the Scandinavian and German words for ‘sound’ to create the portmanteau word ‘sound toge...

The name SAM-Klang takes the three voice parts from the arrangements Soprano, Alto and Men and combines it with the Scandinavian and German words for ‘sound’ to create the portmanteau word ‘sound toge...

The name SAM-Klang takes the three voice parts from the arrangements Soprano, Alto and Men and combines it with the Scandinavian and German words for ‘sound’ to create the portmanteau word ‘sound toge...

Franz Joseph Haydn composed his Missa Sancti Nicolai (Mass No. 6 in G major, Hob. XXII:6), also known as the Nicolaimesse, in 1772. The Mass comprises all six standard movements of the typical Austria...

The present Six Proverbs for the Church Year were composed between 1843 and 1846 on commission from King Frederick William IV for the Berlin Cathedral Choir. Mendelssohn, who had been commissioned by...

The name SAM-Klang takes the three voice parts from the arrangements Soprano, Alto and Men and combines it with the Scandinavian and German words for ‘sound’ to create the portmanteau word ‘sound toge...

During her lifetime, Fanny Hensel was overshadowed by her brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who was three years her junior, and for a long time she was regarded merely as an occasional composer. It...

This collection, created in 1888, is Johannes Brahms' last collection of secular choral songs. Originally for four-to-six parts, these sonorous choral works are striking for their rich harmony and dou...

The 29-year-old Franz Schubert composed his German Mass (D 872) in 1826 at the request of Johann Philipp Neumann, who also wrote the text with the original title 'Songs for the celebration of the holy...

The seven choral songs, stylistically very diverse, show clear folk music traits together with Brahms' characteristic leanings towards multiple choirs and to polyphonic or canonic writing. Brahms had...

[...] Send me a song or two to sing in autumn, or even better in summer or in spring, on the water or the meadow or the bridge, or in the forest or in the garden. [...]', wrote Mendelssohn on 1 August...

Anregungen für die methodische und stimmtechnische Arbeit 

In the Nordic countries, the change of seasons is very evident. And it has everything to do with light. Therefore, spring is eagerly awaited, and autumn and winter are spent practising the now famous...

Evening. The day’s labour is over. The night is near and dreams take over. It is a time for peace with oneself and with one’s God. For Romantic poets, the evening symbolises the transition between eve...

Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) is regarded as one of the most sensitive musical interpreters of German-language poetry - a composer whose work reveals a fine nerve for the combination of word and sound in extr...

Few other works posed Brahms so many artistic and critical challenges as the Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) Op. 54. The immediate spark of inspiration upon encountering Hölderlin's poem - in the sum...