Album został wydany przez wytwórnię Bis (BISSACD 2287). Tracklista: 1. Passio et mors Domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum Lucam (The Passion and Death of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St Luke) for soloists, speaker, boys’ choir, three mixed choirs and orchestra
Tracklista: 1. Fallen 2. Crawling From The Pits 3. We Shall Remain 4. A Sweet Taste Of Death 5. From The Beggars Hand 6. Void 7. A Vulgar Declaration 8. Wings Of Horror 9. Choirs Of The Damned 10. In A Cloak Of Anger
Jean Sibelius' emergence as a composer coincided with the rapid development of choral singing in Finland, at a time when new choirs were being established all over the country. The importance of the genre may be measured by the fact that one of Sibelius's most deeply felt pieces for mixed choir, Män från slätten och havet (Men from Land and Sea), received its first performance by a choir of gargantuan proportions – around 1,300 singers – gathered at a festival in the city of Vaasa in 1912. Choral music also forms an important part of Sibelius' production: besides the present collection of more than 7 hours of music for choir a cappella and with piano or organ accompaniment, there are a large number of orchestral works involving choir. (These are included in volume 3, 'Voice and Orchestra', of this edition.) As a consequence of the division in Finland between Finnish- and Swedish-speakers, Sibelius set texts in both languages, and while a large majority of his solo songs use Swedish texts, in the choral music we find a much larger proportion of settings in Finnish - often, if far from always, of texts from Kalevala, the national epic poem, or its lyric counterpart Kanteletar. Like previous volumes in the SIBELIUS EDITION, the present collection includes not only the published works, but also unpublished pieces, revisions and early versions. Many of these are here recorded for the first time, such as the version with piano of the two choral movements of Kullervo and the reconstruction of the Cantata for the University Graduation Ceremonies of 1897. Other rarities, quite unexpected for those whose knowledge of Sibelius is mainly restricted to his symphonic output, are the two brief arrangements of 'Italian Folk Songs', and the collection of Chorales for mixed choir written during the student years in Helsinki and in Berlin. Performing this wealth of music are some of Finland's finest choirs, with the YL Male Voice Choir and Akademiska Sångföreningen sharing the pieces for male choir, with contributions from their Swedish colleagues in Orphei Drängar. The music for mixed choir is championed by the Dominante and the Jubilate choirs, while most of the piano accompaniments are signed Folke Gräsbeck, whose recordings of Sibelius' complete music for solo piano have just been released.
Album został wydany przez wytwórnię Alto (ALC 1423). Tracklista: 1. Violin Concerto In B Minor, Op. 61 2. Piano Concerto, Op. 90 (Slow Mvt) (Transcr. P.Young 1956) 3. Polonia, Op. 76 (Symphonic Prelude) 4. The Crown Of India Op. 66 (Exc) 5. Civic Fanfare (Hereford, Three Choirs Festival, 1927)
MŁODZI POLSCY KOMPOZYTORZY W HOŁDZIE FRYDERYKOWI CHOPINOWI Marcin Gumiela Sacred Works / Muzyka sakralna Marcin Gumiela 1 Stabat Mater na chór mieszany / Stabat Mater for mixed choir (2006) [5:45] 2 Pater Noster na chór mieszany / Pater Noster for mixed choir (2005) [5:24] 3 Laudate Dominum na dwa chóry mieszane i męski zespół wokalny / Laudate Dominum for two mixed choirs and male voices (2005) [7:15] 4 nie jak, ale dlaczego do słów ks. Jana Twardowskiego na chór mieszany i bęben wielki / not how, but why to the words of Priest Jan Twardowski for mixed choir and big drum (2002) [4:46] Apokalypsis na siedem zespołów kameralnych, dwa chóry żeńskie, dwa chóry męskie, bas solo oraz głos recytujący / Apocalypse for two female choirs, two male choirs, solo voices and 7 chamber bands (2006-2010) 5 I. Prologus [4:35] 6 II. Visi propheticus [6:40] 7 III. Visio septem tubae [7:27] 8 IV. Bestia et pseudo – propheta [3:51] 9 V. Supremum proelium [3:47] 10 VI. Nove Hierusalem [6:08] 11 VII. Epilogus [7:26] total time: [63:05]