Charlotte Mohns does not know how often she has already flicked through the book and grinned to herself with every picture. That’s why the song book also makes a lovely present – because it immediately gives pleasure to children, parents, and anyone else the first time they look at it.
Whichever music magazine you open right now, the countertenor Franco Fagioli is the singer everyone is talking about. Things are going really well for the simpatico Argentinian countertenor with Italian-Spanish roots…
Have you heard of Toivo Kuula? Until a couple of years ago his name was completely unknown to Iris Pfeiffer. Though the a-cappella-piece is a jewel of late Romantic choral music…
For Stefan Schuck, Reger’s great chorale variations for organ are like the peaks of the Himalayas: inaccessible, massive, and daunting. Discover why Reger’s Acht geistliche Gesänge op. 138 are amongst his very favorite works of all.
Right from the very first rehearsal Philipp Schlesinger was fascinated by this piece for four-part choir and piano. Previously he was most familiar with Rheinberger’s sacred vocal music, so the secular choral works and the Wasserfee opened the door to a new world…
Since the World Youth Day in 2005 in Cologne Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine op. 11 has been one of Paul Hogrebe’s favorite pieces: The music almost floated through the still, cool cathedral: gentle, unassuming, heavenly, as if from another world – directly in contrast with the outside world.
A jewel of the unaccompanied choral repertoire for Christina Rothkamm is the Trois Chansons by Maurice Ravel. Ravel, who wrote both text and music, tells three stories with lightness and humor, musically in the style of Renaissance compositions, with content drawing on fairy-tale motifs.
You can read about our colleague Isabelle Métrope’s experiences as a teenager in her final examination on viola at a French music school playing the Romantic Pieces op. 75 by Antonín Dvorák!
When Nicole Däuber encountered Luigi Cherubini’s first Requiem in C minor as a musicology student in Heidelberg, she was fascinated by its special musical form and compositional refinement The work became extremely well-known amongst the composer’s contemporaries, and was performed at the funeral of Beethoven, one of Cherubini’s greatest admirers, and on several other occasions.
The film “The Chorus” (Les Choristes) was one of the most successful French films of recent years, thanks in particular to the wonderful music of Bruno Coulais. As many other viewers, Martyna Grobelna was deeply moved back in 2004 by this multi prizewinning film music. Carus, too, made a small contribution to this story: As well as a CD with three of the most beautiful songs from the film arranged for two-part children’s choir a sheet music edition is available within the series chorissimo! Movie.
