SKU: CA.929500
ISBN 9790007314378. German. Text: Mathier, Juliette.
SKU: CA.990500
ISBN 9790007087005. Language: Latin.
Kurt Suttner, editor of the carus novus series, has written as follows in the foreword to the printed edition of Schanderl's setting of Psalm 90: The seven verses of Psalm 90 contrast the eternity of God with the transitoriness of man.This contrast is symbolized in the composition by the majestic, slow-moving basic pulse of the music, and by rhythmically taut, concise, polyphonic melodic figures. This contrast exactly matches the words which speak either of the permanence of God (Domine - Lord) or the transitory nature of man (convertimini filii hominum - return ye children of man - mane sicut herba - like the grass).
SKU: CA.2332800
ISBN 9790007100995. Key: E flat major. Language: German/English.
SKU: CA.2301340
ISBN 9790007144647. Key: D minor. Text language: Russian/German.
Score available separately - see item CA.2301300.
SKU: CA.910900
ISBN 9790007165604. Language: German/English. Text: Claudius, Matthias. Text: Matthias Claudius.
The poem Der Mond ist aufgegangen by Matthias Claudius is equally well known and loved. In the setting by Manfred Langer sound is joined by the visual element. The moon risen - dimmed hall lights and candles. Than follows richly harmonious and atmospheric choral music. And when the moon has gone down - darkness, silence. One can scarcely imagine a more fitting conclusion to a concert.
SKU: CA.1011105
ISBN 9790007166410. Text language: German. Text: von Chamisso, Adelbert / Hebbel, Friedrich / Storm, Theodor / Trakl, Georg / Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand.
The Tanz der Toten (Dance of Death) is a melodrama for mixed chorus, narrator and piano, based on texts by Adelbert von Chamisso, Friedrich Hebbel, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Theodor Storm, and Georg Trakl. It portrays in music the journey from the world of the living to the kingdom of the dead. Score available separately - see item CA.1011100.
SKU: CA.320590
ISBN 9790007156930. Key: C minor.
SKU: CA.4017780
ISBN 9790007063986. Key: G major. Language: Russian/German.
Score available separately - see item CA.4017700.
SKU: CA.4011430
ISBN 9790007062347. Key: F lydian. Language: Latin/English.
This gradual for the Feast of Holy Church Fathers was composed in 1879. The Lydian setting is, as Bruckner himself said, without sharps, without flats, without triads on the 7th step, without six-four chords, without the sounds of fourths or fifths..
SKU: CA.4017760
ISBN 9790007063962. Key: E flat major. Language: Russian/German.
SKU: CA.339110
ISBN 9790007311209. Key: G major. German.
Arrangement. Score available separately - see item CA.339100.
SKU: CA.4067909
ISBN 9790007076559. Language: Latin.
This first edition of a mass by Biber offers a new glimpse of the colourful and contrastful world of the Baroque. Since the publication of his Missa Salisburgensis in 1903, no mass with this kind of many-voice scoring has appeared in print. This edition not only enriches the multi-choir repertoire, but also is an important contribution to study of an Austrian composer, who has long been known chiefly for his violin compositions. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.4067900.
SKU: CA.178200
ISBN 9790007253974. German.
The conductor Frieder Bernius regards the motets of Hans Fahrmann as an indispensable and extremely welcome addition to the late Romantic repertoire. The composer's output is little known nowadays. Born in 1860, he was considered the Richard Strauss of the organ during his lifetime. With their demanding harmonies, Fahrmann's choral motets place high demands on choirs and - like Reger's works - stretch tonality to its extremes. And not least, their sonorous expressivity is thanks to their chromatic richness. Frieder Bernius has recorded the Motets opp. 34, 45, and 65 with the SWR Vokalensemble for the first time on CD (Carus 83.499).
SKU: CA.178100
ISBN 9790007253967. German.
SKU: CA.7070110
ISBN 9790007252274. German/English. Text: Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand.
“Friede auf Erden” op. 13 is regarded as Arnold Schoenberg’s last tonal composition and is one of the few choral works of the Second Viennese School. On the same day that he completed his op. 13, Schoenberg made the first sketches for his 2nd String Quartet, a key work in atonal music. Although Schoenberg later orchestrated “Friede auf Erden”, he intended the piece to be performed unaccompanied.To help rehearsing the work, this choral score contains the piano transcription made by Anton Webern for use in rehearsals for the planned first performance. The text for op. 13 is a secular Christmas poem by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer. At the time of its composition (1907), Schoenberg thought the vision of a “reine Harmonie unter Menschen” (pure harmony amongst people) described in the poem was conceivable, but he later distanced himself from this idea. What remained is a composition of great artistic power and depth – a real showpiece for ambitious choirs!. Score available separately - see item CA.7070100.
