Holliger / Swr Vokalensemble: Choral Utopia - COMPACT DISCS

Holliger / Swr Vokalensemble: Choral Utopia - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Choral Utopia Artist: Holliger Swr Vokalensemble Label: Wergo Germany Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 4010228733327 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2018 04 13 Number of Discs: 1 "I need a musical discourse," Holliger once said. This is a good description of his characteristic way of composing. Unlike Boulez, he does not base his works on charts and tables, but neither does he employ carpets of sound in the manner of Ligeti or the Spectralists.

Title: Choral Utopia
Artist: Holliger / Swr Vokalensemble
Label: Wergo Germany
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4010228733327
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018-04-13
Number of Discs: 1

"I need a musical discourse," Holliger once said. This is a good description of his characteristic way of composing. Unlike Boulez, he does not base his works on charts and tables, but neither does he employ carpets of sound in the manner of Ligeti or the Spectralists. Particularly in his vocal works, Holliger allows himself to follow the associations suggested by certain words, and these associations in turn generate still other connections. "Shir Shavur" [The Broken Song] is the title of a cycle for choir that Holliger wrote based on 12 of David Rokeah's poems. The idea of discourse can be seen in the fact that Holliger set both the Hebrew and the German versions of the text. This principle is also evident in the different ways the choral forces are handled. There are antiphonal or double choir settings, but also responsorial settings for solo and choir. In "Utopie Chorklang" [Choral Sound Utopia], he divided the choir into three groups of twelve voices each. These three groups are "tuned" in different ways, like registers of an organ. The second group sings it's pitches, but the first group sings a third of a tone higher than written and the third group a third of a tone lower.

Tracks:
1.1 Antwort, Deinem Schweigen Entdeutet
1.2 Rosen Lassen Nacht Erglühn
1.3 Wenn Die Lampen Zu Sprechen Beginnen
1.4 Im Dunkeln Werden Die Worte Genauer
1.5 Das Schöne, Das Verstoßen Wurde
1.6 See. Regenaugen. Hagelsplitter
1.7 Zittern Von Schild. Samtdunkelheit
1.8 Sonne Über Dem Wasser
1.9 Dornen Und Ihr Vielfingriger Schatten
1.10 Der Kalte Spiegel Zeigt
1.11 Wenn Der Wind Nach Sinn Sucht
1.12 Seiten, Die Der Wind Durchblättert
1.13 Psalm
1.14 Hölle Himmel
1.15 Friedensfragen
1.16 Du: Der Messias?
1.17 Mutter Unser
1.18 Intonation
1.19 Feiertag
1.20 Ist Klang Der Sinn?
1.21 Die Höhle Das Leben
1.22 Existenzgrad Null
1.23 Granium-Märit (I)
1.24 Granium-Märit (II)
1.25 Hommage À Rabelais (A)
1.26 Kabbalistik (I)
1.27 Hommage À Rabelais (B)
1.28 Hommage À Rabelais (C-I)
1.29 Rosa Loui (I)
1.30 Kabbalistik (II)
1.31 Rosa Loui (II)
1.32 Hommage À Rabelais (C-II)
1.33 Rosa Loui (III)
1.34 Utopie Chorklang

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