Over three verses, Aurore describes the approaching dawn through an intensifying piano accompaniment: shining out like fading stars, the short quarter notes in the first verse in G major give way in the second verse to a rippling sixteenth note accompaniment in the minor key. Shimmering harmonies allow the first rays of sun to shine in glistening drops of dew, and the dreams escape “like a light swarm”. The third verse returns to the key of G major, full of promise: the new day awakens with its promise of love and beauty.
This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist.
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, German translationhtml file, Singing text, German translation (Sample)Unbenanntes DokumentAus den Gärten der Nacht fliegen die Sterne in die Höhe,
goldene Bienen, von unsichtbarem Honig angezogen,
und das Morgengrau, das in der Ferne seine reine Leinwand spannt,
durchwirkt mit Silberfäden den blauen Mantel des Himmels.Aus dem Garten meines Herzens, den ein träger Traum berauscht,
fliegen meine Wünsche auf den Spuren des Morgens in die Höhe,
wie ein leichter Schwarm, den ein klagender, ewiger und ferner Gesang
an den kupfernen Horizont ruft.Sie fliegen zu deinen Füßen, aus den Wolken vertriebene Sterne,
verbannt aus dem güldenen Himmel, in dem deine Schönheit blüht,
und während sie unbekannte Wege zu dir suchen,
verschmelzen sie ihr sterbendes Licht mit dem erwachenden Tag.Armand Silvestre (1837–1901)
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, originalhtml file, Singing text, original (Sample)Unbenanntes Dokument
Des jardins de la nuit s’envolent les étoiles,
Abeilles d’or qu’attire un invisible miel,
Et l’aube, au loin tendant la candeur de ses toiles,
Trame de fils d’argent le manteau bleu du ciel.Du jardin de mon cœur qu’un rêve lent enivre
S’envolent mes désirs sur les pas du matin,
Comme un essaim léger qu’à l’horizon de cuivre,
Appelle un chant plaintif, éternel et lointain.Ils volent à tes pieds, astres chassés des nues,
Exilés du ciel d’or où fleurit ta beauté
Et, cherchant jusqu’à toi des routes inconnues,
Mêlent au jour naissant leur mourante clarté.Armand Silvestre (1837–1901)
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Composer
Gabriel Fauré
| 1845-1924
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Songwriter / Librettist
Armand Silvestre
| 1837-1901
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Arranger
Denis Rouger
| 1961Denis Rouger grew up as the son of a family of musicians in Paris, where he learned trumpet, horn, piano and singing. He studied composition at the CNSM (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique), obtaining first prizes in harmony, fugue and counterpoint. He studied choral conducting in France and Holland at the Kurt Thomas Academy and received the Certificat d’Aptitude for vocal ensembles from the Ministry of Culture.
As “Professeur agrégé” at the University of Paris-Sorbonne he conducted the “Choeur de Paris-Sorbonne” and taught choral conducting for twenty years. From 1993 to 2003, he was choirmaster at Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral and from 2005 to 2006 at the Madeleine Church, where he received the title of “Honorary Music Director.”
He has conducted numerous professional and amateur ensembles, among others in Germany – where he was invited as a guest conductor by the Landesjugendchor Baden-Württemberg and the Balthasar Neumann Chor, as well as by radio choirs in Hamburg (NDR) and Stuttgart (SWR) –, Italy, Holland, Canada, the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland (Lucerne Festival). He has also collaborated in several world premieres of contemporary works by Klaus Huber, N’guyen Thien Dao, Philippe Mazé and Yves Castagnet, among others. Denis Rouger gives master classes in choral conducting in Sweden, Bulgaria, France, Germany and Switzerland.
In April 2011, Denis Rouger was appointed Professor of Choral Conducting at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. The Chamber Choir of the Musikhochschule, which he founded in autumn 2011, won first prize at the International Choir Competition in Mosbach (Germany) in 2014. In collaboration with Carus the choral book French Choral Music has been published as well as the debut CD of the figure humaine kammerchor, founded in 2016 by Denis Rouger.
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