SWR Vokalensemble - MaennerchoereFelix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed a total of 38 songs for male voices a cappella between 1820 and 1847. He wrote many of them for his own use among family or friends. He also liked to use these secular choruses as gifts or personal thanksgiving. Now the male voices of the SWR Vokalensemble under the direction of Frieder Bernius have presented a recording of these songs. The result is an impressive testimony to these compositions, which are among

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composed a year after Schubert's death and Schubert's own setting of an unrelated Schwanengesang (D 744

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Here he continued to compose: his cantata "In Carcere penoso" was written with carbon on the prison wall

This new version will also see an accompanying colored cassette and CD with poster insert and exclusive trading card for all eight band members

composed with all the succinct mastery of expression to be expected of one who had never been short of a good tune for more than seven decades

Included are pieces for harpsichord already composed but not yet recorded (Morricone

reconstituted by his former students

Sayuri Nagoya's personal selection from Eberl's keyboard output encompasses the earlier and later stages of his career

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