Der Tod ist mir Schlaf worden: Romantic Choral Music

Featuring

Robert Göstl
Vox Animata
Johannes Brahms
Max Reger
Robert Schumann

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Performer Biography

Robert Göstl, the conductor of vox animata, is a professor for children's choir direction and singing with children at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne.

Performer Biography

vox animata is a chamber choir founded in 2014 by Robert Göstl, its artistic director, along with former members of the German Youth Chamber Choir.

Composition History

Schumann created a large collection of ballads and romances for mixed chorus in 1849, a genre he believed to be entirely new for that specific instrumentation.

Composer Biography

Robert Schumann, a renowned composer, was deeply impressed by Johannes Brahms's compositions and became his mentor in 1853.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Despite his Protestant upbringing, Brahms held an ambiguous relationship with the church and religion, even calling some of his chosen texts 'godless' or 'pagan'.

Compositional Technique

For his motet 'Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen', Brahms incorporated compositional techniques from J.S. Bach, which was unusual for his time.