Clytus Gottwald - Hymnus an das Leben CD

Around the turn of the 20th century composers seemed to show little interest in a capella choral music. In the 1960s, however, György Ligeti’s Lux aeterna opened up entirely new perspectives for choral music, which provided the starting point for the transcriptions by Clytus Gottwald (b. 1925). By applying this new technique of writing for voices to works from the Romantic and Impressionist eras these transcriptions ultimately also make contemporary choral music more accessible to us. On this CD, the KammerChor Saarbrücken, under the direction of Prof. Georg Grün, presents transcriptions of works by Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Cornelius, Ravel and Debussy, among others.