Messiaen: Cinq rechants, O sacrum convivium & A-cappella-Werke von Debussy, Ravel und Mahler (Arr. Clytus Gottwald) Vokalsolisten, Kammerchor Stuttgart & Frieder Bernius

• Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992): Cinq rechants, Chant d'amour:
• 1 Messiaen: Cinq rechants, Chant d'amour: Cinq rechants I 04:05
• 2 Messiaen: Cinq rechants, Chant d'amour: Cinq rechants II 02:43
• 3 Messiaen: Cinq rechants, Chant d'amour: Cinq rechants III 04:09
• 4 Messiaen: Cinq rechants, Chant d'amour: Cinq rechants IV 02:41
• 5 Messiaen: Cinq rechants, Chant d'amour: Cinq rechants V 03:59
• Olivier Messiaen: O sacrum convivium!:
• 6 Messiaen: O sacrum convivium! 04:57
• Claude Debussy (1862 -1918): Les Angélus:
• 7 Debussy: Les Angélus (Arr. for 6 Voices by Clytus Gottwald) 03:12
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Soupir:
• 8 Ravel: Soupir (Arr. for 16 Voices by Clytus Gottwald) 05:06
• Claude Debussy: Des pas sur la neige:
• 9 Debussy: Des pas sur la neige (Arr. for 16 Voices by Clytus Gottwald) 03:54
• Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911): Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen:
• 10 Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Arr. for 16 Voices by Clytus Gottwald) 07:29
• Total Runtime 42:15

Info for Messiaen: Cinq rechants, O sacrum convivium & A-cappella-Werke von Debussy, Ravel und Mahler (Arr. Clytus Gottwald)

With their latest recording, Frieder Bernius and the Kammerchor Stuttgart reach a new pinnacle in the art of interpretation: The Cinq Rechants for 12 mixed voices by Olivier Messiaen, with their rhythmically striking onomatopoeias, pose an enormous challenge for the performers. Since the novel and extremely complex rhythms which are composed of small cellular units cannot be fitted into traditional schemes, the time signatures change constantly. Melodically, Messiaen draws not only from traditional Andean love songs, but also from the medieval Dawn Song, in which a night watchman warns the secret lovers of discovery. The production is complemented by 20th century French vocal music for soloist ensembles. Outstanding!

Kammerchor Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius, conductor

Frieder Bernius
Bernius’s work has earned great worldwide recognition. He is in demand internationally as a conductor and as a teacher. His principal artistic collaborators are the ensembles he founded himself, the Kammerchor Stuttgart, the Barockorchester Stuttgart, the Hofkapelle Stuttgart and the Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart. As a guest conductor, he has collaborated repeatedly with, for example, the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and the Streicherakademie Bozen. Great stylistic versatility is Frieder Bernius’s hallmark. Whether he conducts vocal works by Monteverdi, Bach, Händel, Mozart, Beethoven, Fauré and Ligeti, stage music by Mendelssohn or symphonies by Haydn, Burgmüller and Schubert, his work always aims for a sound that is at once unmistakably personal and at the same time oriented towards the original period sound ideal. He devotes himself equally to the rediscovery of 18th century operas and to first performances of contemporary compositions. He is particularly interested in the musical history of southwestern Germany. Carus-Verlag has awarded Frieder Bernius a Golden CD for his complete recording of the sacred music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The award was presented to him during the German Choir Festival in Stuttgart 2016. The sale of over 250,000 recordings, which has been acclaimed with a number of awards, has made a not insignificant contribution to what today is the obvious presence of Mendelssohn's complete œuvre in the concert repertoire.

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