Marcus Creed, the chief conductor of the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, has won numerous international awards for his CD releases, including the German Record Critics' Award and the Echo Klassik.
Performer Biography
The SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, with its 33 singers, is considered a leading international ensemble for 20th-century and contemporary vocal music.
Composer Biography
Alma Schindler, a composition student of Alexander Zemlinsky, had already achieved success with her lieder in Viennese salons and had composed around a hundred songs by the late 19th century.
Compositional Technique
Clytus Gottwald, the transcriber on this album, views his transcriptions not as auxiliary forms but as independent artistic products, reflections on the original works.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Gustav Mahler believed that music embodies "the law of eternal genesis, eternal development - like the world, even in the same place, is ever different, ever changing and new."
Recording & Production
This album features world premiere recordings of several a cappella choir transcriptions by Clytus Gottwald, including works by Gustav and Alma Mahler.
Composer Biography
Gustav Mahler, director of the Vienna Court Opera, met Alma Schindler in 1901 and was fascinated by her, despite later demanding she stop composing if they married.
