Pater noster (O Vater unser im Himmel)

SKU: HL.49018918

ISBN 9790001177429. Latin.

Using very simple means, the choral music expert Heinrich Poos composed an expressive setting: The four-voice mixed choir (with or without organ) softly declaims the text of Vater unser [Lord's Prayer] before the composer condenses the harmony of the piece from 'Und fuhre uns nicht in Versuchung' and lets it end with a brilliant 'Amen'.

SKU: HL.49019318

ISBN 9790001189774. German.

From his Pater noster for soloists, choir and orchestra, written in the form of a cantata, in which the original Latin text is combined with the new German translation of the President of the Bundestag, Norbert Lammert, Stefan Heucke has taken an almost seven-minute German version for mixed choir and organ for practical use and newly arranged it.The text version of Norbert Lammert uses a direct and concise language which reinterprets several archaic expressions of the traditional translation: 'Dein Reich kommt, wenn dein Wille geschieht, auch auf Erden'. Stefan Heucke set the choral parts in major/minor-mode homophony in a deliberately simple way. The organ basically supports the choral setting and expands it rhythmically and harmonically now and then.