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Aufblick

12/13/2019, 18 Tracks, 48:37

Featuring

  • Steffen Walther
  • Kammerchor der Kreuzkirche Chemnitz
  • Giuseppe Verdi
  • Hugo Wolf
  • Mindaugas Urbaitis
  • Max Reger
  • Knut Nystedt

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Album & Artwork

The album combines late-Romantic choral music with works of classical modernism, creating a synthesis where the pieces comment on each other.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Chamber Choir of the Kreuzkirche Chemnitz was founded in 1991 by enthusiastic singers and their cantor Steffen Walther to perform challenging a-cappella choral literature.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Steffen Walther, the cantor and organist at Kreuzkirche Chemnitz since 1986, also lectures on organ playing at the College of Church Music in Dresden.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This recording documents the Chamber Choir of the Kreuzkirche in Chemnitz's long-standing commitment to sacred a-cappella choral music.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Giuseppe Verdi's Pater noster is based on an Italian version of the Lord's Prayer, which was mistakenly linked to Dante's 'Divine Comedy' but is now attributed to the 14th-century poet Antonio Beccari.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Max Reger composed his 'Acht geistliche Gesänge' (Eight Sacred Songs) for mixed choir in September 1914, shortly after being discharged from military duty due to poor health during World War I.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Hugo Wolf's six-part Eichendorff Cycle is an early work, composed in 1881 when he was 21 years old, setting his personal experiences to music.

Source: Booklet

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