Schwemmer: Perlmuttfalter. Contemporary Choral Music

Featuring

Klaus-Martin Bresgott
Athesinus Consort Berlin
Frank Schwemmer

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Schwemmer's music is characterized by its ability to convert the sounds of the world into an expanded form, often incorporating elements like ornithological references, refined foghorns, or discreet kissing sounds.

Performer Biography

Klaus-Martin Bresgott, the conductor, was awarded the 'Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik' in 2008 for the first complete recording of Hugo Distler's Geistliche Chormusik op. 12 and Weihnachtsgeschichte op. 10.

Performer Biography

The Athesinus Consort Berlin, named after composer Leonhard Lechner Athesinus (ca. 1553-1606), was founded in 1992 by Klaus-Martin Bresgott, who has been its conductor ever since.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Frank Schwemmer, the composer, primarily uses the human voice, alone or in a choir, as his instrument and means of expression.

Compositional Technique

In his Psalm 31, Frank Schwemmer avoids a traditional major key ending, instead concluding with silence and wordless singing (bocca chiusa), leaving the final chord unresolved.

Compositional Technique

Frank Schwemmer's setting of Psalm 31, a concise, multi-language work, was composed in 2006 as a counterpart to Heinrich Schütz's setting of the same text from his 1648 Geistliche Chormusik.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Frank Schwemmer is described as a mediator between traditional, seemingly anachronistic songs and the contemporary choral generation, making tradition feel special and alive again.