SAM-Klang

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...

Mozart's Requiem, his last and unfinished composition, is one of the most famous choral works in the classical repertoire, a masterpiece whose genesis in several respects is shrouded in mystery. This...

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...

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...

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...

This first collection of five carols samples the vast spectrum of festive musical fare that still lies at the heart of the English Christmas tradition. Whether for the Choir of King's College, Cambrid...

In many parts of the world, Advent and Christmas carols have become part of the standard repertoire of popular songs, and this tradition has also produced a large number of such songs in German-speaki...

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...

Übersetzungen, Aussprachehilfen und Klangbeispiele 

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...