Deutsche Motette - Choir of Gonville & Caius College - Cambridge Choir of King's College London

ID: DCD34124 (EAN: 801918341243)  | 1 CD | DDD

LABEL:

DELPHIAN RECORDS

Subcollection:

Choir

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Track listing

1 Deutsche Motette Op 62
Richard Strauss

Vier doppelchörige Gesänge Op 141
Robert Schumann
2 An die Sterne
3 Ungewisses Licht
4 Zuversicht
5 Talismane
6 Gott ist mein Hirt D706

Franz Schubert
7 O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf Op 74 No 2

Johannes Brahms
8 Abendlied Op 69 No 3

Josef Rheinberger
Liebe Op 18

Peter Cornelius
9 Liebe, dir ergeb’ ich mich
10 Ich will dich lieben, meine Krone
11 Thron der Liebe, Stern der Güte

Total playing time [61:30]

Delphian’s superchoir reunites after its highly successful recording of Shchedrin’s The Sealed Angel, this time for a programme of German Romantic music. Strauss’s sumptuous Deutsche Motette is the last word in late Romantic choral opulence, its teeming polyphony brought to thrilling life by this virtuoso cast of over sixty singers.

The rest of the programme explores the vivid colours and shadowy half-lights of a distinctly German music that reached its culmination in Strauss’s extravagant masterpiece. The singing throughout combines a musical intensity and imagination with an understanding of period style, that are hallmarks of both choirs’ work

The Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (directed by Geoffrey Webber) and The Choir of King’s College London (directed by David Trendell) are two of the UK’s leading collegiate and university choirs. Both choirs combine singing at services during term time with a busy schedule of concerts, recordings and broadcasts, both in the UK and abroad.

'the Cambridge and London choirs bring a glittering precision to the music... marvelous choral sheen''
- International Record Review

'the choirs sing splendidly''
- Gramophone