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SWR Stuttgart Vocal Ensemble: French Choral Music

Song Name   Composer
Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans   Claude Debussy
Dieu! qu'il l'a fait bon regarder!   Claude Debussy
Quant j'ay ouy le tabourin   Claude Debussy
Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain   Claude Debussy
Trois Chansons   Maurice Ravel
Nicollete   Maurice Ravel
Trois beaux oiseuax du paradis   Maurice Ravel
Ronde   Maurice Ravel
Cinq Rechants   Olivier Messiaen
Hayo kapri tama   Olivier Messiaen
Ma premiere fois terre   Olivier Messiaen
Ma robe d'amour   Olivier Messiaen
Nikohama palalan(e) souki   Olivier Messiaen
Mayoma kali   Olivier Messiaen
Epithalame   Andre Jolivet
Ouvrons les portes de l'amour, Moderato   Andre Jolivet
Fille du souffle, Allegro semplice   Andre Jolivet
Au son de sa lyre, Allegro maestoso   Andre Jolivet
Ballata pour quatuor vocal op. 29 (1896/1897)   Ernest Chausson

Directed by Robert Huber

Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Andre Jolivet each wrote one composition for unaccompanied chorus. Olivier Messiaen produced two. His 1937 motet 'O Sacrum Convivium' brings the mystifying sound of his organ works into the vocal medium, and 1948's 'Cinq Rechants' has an esthetic all its own. Never before had anyone composed so radically for chorus. Andre Jolivet's 1953 'Epithalame' is similarly groundbreaking. The renowned composer and director Rupert Huber leads talented, 37-strong mixed-voice SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart in this difficult, striking material. Here are 3 pieces by Debussy (our favorite: ), 3 by Maurice Ravel (our favorite: 'Ronde,') 5 by Messiaen (Niokhama palalan souki), 3 by Jolivet (Au son de sa lyre, Allegro maestoso'), and one by Chausson, 'Ballata pour quatour vocal op. 29.' Unlike any choral music we've ever heard-stunning!

6974 00 1 CD $15.98   Mixed | Chorus | France | | Mixed Choirs