Van Gogh in Me | Alpha ALPHA638

Van Gogh in Me

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA638

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 7th October 2022

Contents

Artists

Netherlands Chamber Choir

Conductor

Peter Dijkstra

Works

Debussy, Claude

Chansons (3) de Charles d'Orleans
Les Angelus (trans. Clytus Gottwald)
Preludes (12), Book 1
» no.6 Des pas sur la neige (arr. Clytus Gottwald)

Mahler, Alma

Die stille Stadt (trans. Clytus Gottwald)
Laue Sommernacht (trans. Clytus Gottwald)

Mahler, Gustav

Ruckert-Lieder (5)
» Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (arr. Clytus Gottwald)
Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor
» IV Adagietto 'Im Abendrot' (trans. Clytus Gottwald)

Saint-Saens, Camille

Choeurs (2), op.68

Satie, Erik

Gymnopedies (3)
» I Lent et douloureux (arr. William Knight)

Schoenberg, Arnold

Dreimal tausend Jahre, op.50a
Friede auf Erden, op.13

Strauss, Richard

Mannerchore (3), op.123 TrV270
» II Traumlicht

Artists

Netherlands Chamber Choir

Conductor

Peter Dijkstra

About

With Van Gogh in Me, the Netherlands Chamber Choir presents an experience in which the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh and Gustav Klimt come to life to the music of the great Romantic and early 20th-century composers such as Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Mahler... and, in a world premiere, a transcription for a cappella choir of Satie's first Gymnopédie. Originally written for solo piano, this work, which is known and played throughout the world, finds a new magical and celestial dimension in this new version for choir. Mentioning the name of Van Gogh immediately evokes in each of us a colour, a landscape, a sensation... Hence the idea of creating an immersive audiovisual experience: the choir approached an Italian collective, fuse*, to link images and sounds to the emotions of the musicians and the audience... fuse* developed an algorithm based on the works of Van Gogh and Klimt by recording their styles, colours, brushstrokes... then, during the concert, collects the sound of the choir but also biometric data that analyses the emotional state of the audience, the singers and the conductor, and creates visuals in real time, an astonishing show of colours and shapes that mixes sound, images and emotions... The visual of the album is inspired by these experiments.

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