Hans Gál: Music for Voices, Volume Three
Whether in his original home of Vienna, as a conservatoire director in Mainz, or as an émigré in Edinburgh, where he became one of the mainstays of musical life, Hans Gál (1890–1987) championed choral singing as a way of directly involving people in making music: he founded and conducted a number of choirs and provided an extensive output of choral compositions. This third album of his choral music offers a vivid cross-section of music for chamber choir, featuring mixed voices, women’s voices and male-voice choir, a cappella, with solo soprano, with piano and with chamber accompaniment.
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Pixels Ensemble
Borealis Choir
Bridget Budge, director
Stephen Muir, director
Listen To This Recording:
- Nachtmusik, Op. 44 (9:47)
Four Part-Songs, Op. 61 (1954) (11:17)
- No. 1, Love Will Find out the Way (1:48)
- No. 2, An Epitaph (3:03)
- No. 3, To Sleep (3:14)
- No. 4, Phillida and Corydon (3:12)
Of a Summer Day, Op. 77 (1951) (29:36)
- Prelude (4:46)
- I. To-day (2:01)
- II. Morning (2:08)
- III. Make much of Time (2:16)
- IV. Song of June – (3:11)
- V. Elegy (2:26)
- VI. Scherzo (5:14)
- VII. Hurricane – (2:16)
- VIII. Sunset – (2:48)
- IX. Silver (4:30).
Two Songs, Op. 8 (1914) (4:43)
- No. 1, Idylle (1:54)
- No. 2, Sterne im Wasser (2:49)
Two Songs, Op. 63 (1954) (5:15)
- No. 1, Bey dem Weine (2:44)
- No. 2, Runda (2:36)
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