Geistliche Chormusik (Carus Classics)
The Carus Classics series features outstanding CD productions from Carus’ past library of recordings. The series has been designed exclusively by the well-known graphic artists Friedrich Forssman und Cornelia Feyll.
This selection of Brahms’s sacred choral music shows a clear line of development from the early works, such as the songlike Ave Maria, to the contrapuntal masterpieces, the motets with their art of motivic variation.
This selection of Brahms’s sacred choral music shows a clear line of development from the early works, such as the songlike Ave Maria, to the contrapuntal masterpieces, the motets with their art of motivic variation.
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Composer
Johannes Brahms
| 1833-1897Johannes Brahms' study of musical tradition was of crucial importance to his output: he combined church modes, canonic technique, Baroque style and diction, Bach's counterpoint and Beethoven's thematic-motivic work with the harmonic and expressive achievements of Romanticism to form his own distinctive style. In this respect his choral songs and vocal quartets (e.g. the “Liebeslieder Waltzes” and “New Liebeslieder Waltzes”), often to folk song texts, in which a musical microcosm unfolds, are examplary. His “Deutsches Requiem”, available from Carus in several different versions, constitutes one of the most fascinating confessions of faith in the history of music. Personal details
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Preface writer
Karl-Michael Komma
| 1913-2012Karl Michael Komma, geb. 24.12.1913 in Asch (Böhmen), gest. 2012 in Memmingen. Schüler u.a. von W. Fortner (Komposition), F. Langer (Klavier), G. Szell (Dirigieren) und G. Becking (Musikwiss.). 1940 Leiter der Musikschule Reichenberg. 1954 Lehrbeauftragter für Musikgeschichte an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, ab 1960 Professor für Komposition, Musiktheorie und Musikgeschichte. Nach seiner Emeritierung 1978 noch bis 1988 als Lehrbeauftragter für Kirchenmusikgeschichte, mit einer regen Tätigkeit als Komponist, Organist, Kammermusik- und Liedbegleiter und Vortragender. In Reutlingen hat er sich um die „Württembergische Philharmonie“ und die Musikschule sehr verdient gemacht. Gründung der „Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde“ und der Reihe „Musica nova“, die er auch über zwei Jahrzehnte hinweg leitete. Personal details
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Ensemble
Roger Norrington
| 1934
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Ensemble
The Schütz Choir of London
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Soloist - soprano
Rosemary Hardy
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Soloist - alto
Cherith Milburn Fryer
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Soloist - organ
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent
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