Weigele / Kinderchor Singsalasing - Weihnachtslieder Fur Kinder - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Born in Münster/Westphalia in 1956, Klaus Ospald is one of the most renowned German composers of contemporary music. He studied composition in Detmold and Würzburg, and as a master student with Helmut Lachenmann. His works are played by internationally renowned performers and orchestras, and premieres of them are arranged by leading promoters and contemporary music festivals. Klaus Ospald has received numerous awards - most recently the International Hanns Eisler Scholarship of the City of Leipzig 2022. - This BR-KLASSIK CD presents Ospald's InchMás raíz, menos criaturaInch in a live recording of a performance on November 22, 2019 in a musica viva concert from the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz, and also his InchQuintett von den entlegenen FeldernInch (Quintet from the remote fields), recorded on May 25, 2019 in the Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery at Coburg University of Applied Sciences. The ten-part composition InchMás raíz, menos criaturaInch (loosely translated InchMore root than manInch) (InchEntlegene Felder IIIInch/InchRemote Fields IIIInch) for orchestra, piano and eight-part chamber choir, based on the poem InchEl niño yunteroInch (InchThe child as draught animalInch) by Miguel Hernández, was written in 2014/15 and revised in 2017. Ospald composed it as a commission from the SWR for the ECLAT Festival 2017, and it received it's world premiere at the ECLAT Festival on February 5, 2017 at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart, with Yukiko Sugawara (piano), the SWR Vokalensemble and the SWR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Peter Rundel. The composition is part of a triad of works that Ospald wrote between 2012 and 2016 and placed together under the title InchRemote FieldsInch. This bundling together of works of different physiognomy is a basic characteristic of Ospald's oeuvre. Musical content is more important to him than performance standards or genr

From the four Books of Songs that appeared between 1597 and 1612, Hanna Thyssen and Susanne Peuker ('Fortune's Musicke') selected 15 of Dowland's most beautiful songs, weaving them together with several lute pieces into an atmospheric Dowland homage. It documents his great compositional mastery, and his instinct for unpretentious melodies and subtle text settings. Album Tracks 1. Come Again 2. Sorrow, Stay 3. Frog Galliard 4. Away with These Selfe Loving Lads 5. If My Complaints 6. Fantasy 7. It Was a Time When Silly Bees Could Speake 8. Sweet Love Awake 9. Can She Excuse 10. Go from My Window 11. Tell Me True Love 12. His Golden Locks 13. Come Away 14. Round Battle Galliard 15. Sweete Stay Awhile 16. My Teares Flow 17. Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens 18. Fine Knacks for Ladies 19. Preludium (Lute Solo) 20. Time Stands Still

The artists write InchChristmas in 2020 was very still, with corona lockdown and a ban on singing. After that sobering experience, we had the idea to arrange traditional Christmas carols for two cellos. We are always surprised to discover that the earliest ones move our emotions because of their purity, their sheer energy, and their touches of elevated spirituality. Sounding like the human voice, the cello's sonority creates a space for our individual emotions. It let's us encounter these time-honored songs that are sung in the family or at church, often under difficult circumstances when humanity is under threat. Vincent Themba's congenial, well-suited, inspiring accompaniments on guitar, djembe, and double bass support and enrich our arrangements. While we were preparing this album, we realized that we were actually prolonging the legacy and work of our two respective fathers, Joseph Alfred Schlichtig and Hans Heinemann. When we were young, it was they who made it possible for us all to play Christmas music at church and in our families at home. We remember them with utter gratitude.Inch