Schubert - Works for Male Choir

Published in 1993.

Polytech Choir
Tapani Länsiö

Contents

1. Unendliche Freude durchwallet das Herz
2. Zum Rundetanz
3. Nachtmusik
4. Die Nacht
5. Die Einsiedelei
6. Wehmut
7. Grab und Mond
8. Der Geistertanz
9. Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
10. Frühlingslied
11. Liebe
12. Selig durch die Liebe
13. Leise, leise lasst uns singen
14. Sehnsucht
15. Der Entfernten
16. Trinklied aus dem 16. Jahrhundert
17. Trinklied im Winter
18. Wein und Liebe

ONDINE Records
Äänite: CD, code ODE 811-2

This record contains a unique collection of Schubert's most beautiful male choir works performed by The Polytech Choir. Franz Schubert's remarkable musical output contains more than fifty songs for unaccompanied male chorus. Many of these are charmingly jovial and light-hearted creations, but in the midst one also finds works probing the depths of experience, visionary glimpses and heart-rending testimonies. Already in sixteenth-century England, it became the custom to hold soirées where gentlemen gathered to drink and sing part-songs. The custom spread to Germany at the turn of the nineteenth century, and Schubert contributed to these with enthusiasm both as a singer and composer. Some of the more ambitious examples of his male chorus songs received concert performances at the hands of singers whose skills gave rise a definitive and independent male chorus culture; this subsequently spread to Scandinavia and Finland and developed to the level of artistic achievement we can witness today. The record contains masterpieces each enthusiastic male choir should include in its repertoire (Sulasol 1993).