Calmus: Best of 20 Years | Carus CAR83507

Calmus: Best of 20 Years

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Label: Carus

Cat No: CAR83507

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 15th November 2019

Contents

Artists

Camus Ensemble

Artists

Camus Ensemble

About

In April 1999 the first concert by Calmus Ensemble took place near Leipzig. Four young singers made their debut as an ensemble after their time in the famous St Thomas’s Choir. The beginning of an impressive career: scholarship holders of the Deutscher Musikrat, first prize in competitions in Germany, Spain, Finland, and the USA, workshops and master classes, 22 CDs, over 1,200 concerts in twenty countries.

Since their concert debut in 1999, the line-up and number of members of the ensemble has changed several times (the current scoring of SATBarB has existed since 2004), but one thing has remained constant: blend, precision, lightness, and humour.

These four characteristics are the hallmarks of Calmus, making the ensemble one of the most successful vocal groups in Germany. Their wide range of sound colours, joy in performing and kind of sound, but also their varied and imaginative programs delight audiences time and time again - both at home and abroad. And the range of repertoire on this journey has been almost unlimited: shaped by the tradition of St. Thomas’s Choir, the singers are naturally at home in the vocal music of the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Romantic, but the music of our own time is also a major focus.

Over the years Calmus has commissioned and premiered many compositions, including works by Paul Moravec (a Pulitzer prizewinner), Steffen Schleiermacher, and Wolfram Buchenberg. For their 20th anniversary, a compilation with highlights from Calmus’s extensive discography is being released. Not simply a ‘best of’, but a virtuoso look back at two outstandingly successful decades of Calmus Ensemble!

Contents:

CD 1
1. JS Bach - Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen, BWV 452
2. JF Rheinberger - Abendlied, op. 69 no.3
3. L Böhme - Kyrie über ‘Kyrie in festis duplicibus’
4. W Weismann - Der Herr ist mein Hirte (Psalm 23)
5. B Franke - And why? (Psalm 116)
6. JS Bach - Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12
7. H Purcell - When I am laid (Dido and Aeneas)
8. T Stoltzer - Herr, wie lang willt du mein so gar vergessen
9. H Schütz - Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich (Geistliche Chor-Music, 1648)
10. H Schütz - Gib unseren Fütrsten (Geistliche Chor-Music, 1648)
11. N Gombert - Agnus Dei (Missa Tempore Paschali a 12)
12. P Moravec - Love Endures All Things
13. P Moravec - Set Me As a Seal

CD 2
1. H Distler - Der Feuerreiter
2. M Chao - Bongo bong (arr. S Krause)
3. F Jung - Die Vogelhochzeit
4. J Brahms - Waldesnacht
5. Sting- Shape of my heart (arr. L Böhme)
6. Interlude
7. H Purcell - Hush, no more
8. G Kreisler - Barbara (arr. S Krause)
9. H Banter - Das Mondschaf
10-11. C Janequin - La Guerre
12. L Senfl - Ach Elslein, liebes Elselein (arr. J Garcia)
13. GB Gomez - Vasija de barro (arr. J Zentner)
14. Z de Abrehu - Tico-Tico no fuba (arr. J Garcia)
15. Sting - Moon Over Bourbon Street (arr. N Crellin)
16. L Cohen - Everybody Knows (arr. L Böhme)

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