SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart & Marcus Creed – France (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

French intellectuals, especially musicians and writers, were enchanted by the magic of Richard Wagner’s music, but they earnestly wanted to pursue new ideas for what might follow. They believed that music and art should be free from ‘German elements’ and they consequently wanted to establish a decidedly contrasting, French style of music. It was for this reason that Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns set up the Societé Nationale de Musique in 1871, tasking it with supporting new French compositions. Successive composers were fascinated by new developments in the great French music tradition and experimented with modal alternatives and aspects of counterpoint. Compositional clarity was expected to express the simple but poetic relationship between music and text, drawing on graceful melodic lines and a Renaissance-like serenity of expression.

Tracklist:
1-01. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – Un soir de neige, FP 126 : No. 1. De grandes cuillers de neige (01:12)
1-02. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – Un soir de neige, FP 126 : No. 2. La bonne neige (01:52)
1-03. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – Un soir de neige, FP 126 : No. 3. Bois meurtri (02:18)
1-04. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – Un soir de neige, FP 126 : No. 4. La nuit le froid la solitude (01:19)
1-05. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – 3 Chansons de Charles d’Orleans, L. 92 : No. 1. Dieu! qu’il la fait bon regarder (02:17)
1-06. Wiebke Wighardt – 3 Chansons de Charles d’Orleans, L. 92 : No. 2. Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin (02:12)
1-07. Kirsten Drope – 3 Chansons de Charles d’Orleans, L. 92 : No. 3. Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain (02:01)
1-08. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – Naissance de Vénus, Op. 292 : I. Les heures (02:08)
1-09. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – Naissance de Vénus, Op. 292 : II. Vénus (00:56)
1-10. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – Naissance de Vénus, Op. 292 : III. Le vent (00:43)
1-11. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – Naissance de Vénus, Op. 292 : IV. Les heures (02:01)
1-12. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – Epithalame : I. Moderato (08:36)
1-13. Hubert Mayer – Epithalame : II. Allegretto semplice (08:44)
1-14. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – Epithalame : III. Allegro maestoso (03:14)
1-15. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – 4 Petites prieres de Saint Francois d’Assise, FP 142 : No. 1. Salut, Dame Sainte (Modere, mais sans lenteur) (02:19)
1-16. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – 4 Petites prieres de Saint Francois d’Assise, FP 142 : No. 2. Tout puissant, tres saint (Majestueux et eclatant) (01:24)
1-17. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – 4 Petites prieres de Saint Francois d’Assise, FP 142 : No. 3. Seigneur, je vous en prie (Tres expressif et fervent) (01:27)
1-18. Julius Pfeifer – 4 Petites prieres de Saint Francois d’Assise, FP 142 : No. 4. Ô mes très cheres frères (Bien calme) (02:06)
1-19. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – O sacrum convivium (Live) : O sacrum convivium! (04:46)
1-20. SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart – Wölfli-Kantata : II. Die Stellung der Zahlen (18:23)