SKU: PR.UE036618
ISBN 9783702473396. UPC: 803452070511.
Gottwald has a knack for bringing contemporary classics to multi-part unaccompanied chorus of voices. For Webern's Im Sommerwind, he has taken all of the singable bits and assembled them into a surprisingly articulate and sensible transcription. With the voices approximating instrumental melodic lines in this lush, layered setting, the listeners can forget that they are listening to voices alone. For advanced choirs.
SKU: HL.48024680
ISBN 9783793142249. UPC: 888680952549.
As a firm avant-gardist, Ursula Mamlock primarily focused on instrumental music, mostly with typically reduced means and expression.Text-based pieces, vocal music, especially choral music are exceptions in her oeuvre, thereby arousing special interest. For example, Mamlok set several haikus to music (in English translation): The fragile precision of these suggestive Japanese poems was in line with her sense of aesthetics. Her work Mosaics consists of eight extremely short pieces. The mixed choir singing in a soloistic manner does not develop in a linear way but helps to create different colourful pictures that interact with each other, a kind of light, restless serenity. 'Even Webern did not dare write such short pieces, especially not for choir', judges Mamlok's biographer Habakuk Traber. 'In the literature for vocal ensembles, Mamlok's Mosaics stands out unique.'.
