Clytus Gottwald, the arranger on this album, founded the Stuttgart Schola Cantorum in 1960, which gained international recognition for performing avant-garde vocal music.
Compositional Technique
Clytus Gottwald's transcriptions apply a vocal writing technique, learned from György Ligeti's choral piece Lux aeterna, to models from the Romantic-Impressionist era.
Composer Biography
André Caplet, a French Impressionist composer, performer, and arranger, was forced to give up conducting due to a war wound and found solace in religion.
Interpretation
Marcus Creed, the conductor, is a regular guest at international festivals of early and modern music, and his CD releases have received awards for their stylistically assured interpretations.
Performer Biography
The SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, founded in 1946, has consistently dedicated itself to contemporary music over the last twenty years, achieving international success.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Olivier Messiaen, like André Caplet, experienced a deepening of his religious views due to war, which influenced his mystical musical direction.
Composition History
Olivier Messiaen himself transcribed a movement from his Quatuor pour la fin du temps for five Ondes Martenot (electro-acoustic instruments) around 1946.
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