15 Songs From Schlichte Weisen (Simple Songs) Op. 76 (REGER MAX)

SKU: CA.916000

ISBN 9790007252663.

For almost 30 years the conductor and musicologist Clytus Gottwald has made transcriptions of songs and instrumental pieces for unaccompanied choir by a wide variety of different composers, which have been performed throughout the world with huge success. Richard Strauss left a wealth of wonderfully sensitive and subtle songs from all decades of his compositional output, many of them written specifically for his wife, the singer Pauline Strauss-de Ahna.

SKU: CA.5281100

ISBN 9790007302023.

The fourth volume of the Lieder und Chorwerke (Songs and Choral Works) from the Reger Hybrid Edition of Works (RWA) presents songs Max Reger composed between November 1903 and July 1905. In his Opus 75 songs, Reger set verses by classic German poets, such as Goethe and Hölderlin, as well as folksong texts in his usual avant-garde manner. In the 30 songs from the first two collections of the Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76, on the other hand, the composer distanced himself from his previous approach to songwriting by adopting a simpler, folk-like style. The popular Schlichte Weisen were also a concession to his publishers' wishes. The songs in Opus 88 were published not by Lauterbach & Kuhn but by Simrock, a firm more willing to accept music that departed from Alltagsgeschmack (everyday or popular taste). The four songs were dedicated to the mezzo-soprano Lula Mysz-Gmeiner.In January 2008 the Max-Reger-Institut (MRI) in Karlsruhe began publishing a scholarly-critical edition of the works of Reger (RWA), supported by the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature. As a Hybrid Edition, it is exploring new approaches in editorial techniques.The digital offer belonging to the volume is published in an online portal.Contents:Eighteen Songs op. 75Schlichte Weisen op. 76, vol. ISchlichte Weisen op. 76, vol. IIFour Songs op. 88Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe WoO VII/37AppendixWaldeinsamkeit op. 76 no. 3Minnelied op. 76 no. 21.