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2020-2025
Oktober 2026
Franz Schreker
Hugo Wolf
Richard Strauss
Gustav Mahler
Alma Mahler
Clytus Gottwald
SWR Vokalensemble
Marcus Creed
FRANZ SCHREKER (1878 – 1934)
Three Songs after poems by Paul Heyse and Rainer Maria Rilke for 6 to 13 voices:
1. In Spring
2. For Nothing
3. How Love May Have Come
HUGO WOLF (1860 – 1903)
Four Songs for 7 to 16 voices:
4. And Would You See Your Darling Fade Away
5. The Abandoned Maiden
6. On An Old Painting
7. The Gardner
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864 – 1949)
8. The Night, Op. 10 No. 3 for eight voices
9. Dream Through the Dusk, Op. 29 No. 1 for 16 voices
10. All Souls’ Day, for eight-part choir Op. 10 No. 8
11. Forest Bliss, Op. 49 No. 1 for twelve voices
GUSTAV MAHLER (1860 – 1911)
12. The Two Blue Eyes, for four mixed choirs
13. Primal Light, for eight-part choir
14. Parting and Longing, for 2 five-part choirs
15. At Midnight, for nine voices
16. At Dusk – Adagietto from Symphony No. 5, arr. for 16 voices
ALMA MAHLER (1879-1964)
From: Five Songs for voice and piano, arranged for six to ten part choir:
17. The Silent Town
18. A Mild Summer Night
19. With You, All Feels Safe
The present album brings together a collection of transcriptions that open an unusual chapter in music history: fin‑de‑siècle songs reimagined for unaccompanied choir. With these works, Clytus Gottwald turns to a repertoire that scarcely existed in the late Romantic period. His transcriptions offer these songs a new musical setting without altering their structure or harmonic language.
The widely spaced vocal textures present the music of Wolf, Schreker, Strauss, and Alma and Gustav Mahler from a different angle. The traditional division between solo voice and piano recedes; instead, a unified vocal fabric emerges, allowing the harmonic nuances of the originals to come into focus in a new way. Familiar works are not reinvented but transferred into a medium that gathers their colours and lines into a different kind of coherence.
The selection ranges from folk‑inflected miniatures to late‑Romantic soundscapes and includes several rarely heard pieces. As a whole, the CD offers a concentrated view of a repertoire situated between tradition and modernity, while also highlighting a historical gap in the choral literature of the turn of the century.
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