SKU: ST.Y328

ISBN 9790220224119.

Set of Parts. For viol consort or string quartet/quintet. Reconstructed by Alan Brown from keyboard sources. Set of string parts corresponding with Musica Britannica Volume 96, Appendix III.

SKU: M7.DOHR-22957

ISBN 9790202009574.

SKU: HL.4008548

ISBN 9798350110371. UPC: 196288179177.

Bleak Forest is a piece for smaller concert bands and offers the musicians above all space to improve their sound and their effect playing. The technical requirements are therefore deliberately kept low. With this piece, the composer won the VLAMO International Composition Contest 2022. Thematically, the work is influenced by the composer's childhood memories. In his hometown there was a dark and mysterious forest, that seemed to the children in the small village to be magical. Without a reasonable explanation, every trip into the woods was exciting and somewhat terrifying. There were tales of dangerous animals, which can be heard at the beginning of the piece, as well as magical beasts. The magic of the forest is depicted musically from bar 70 in the andante section. The snapping of the fingers represents single raindrops. From bar 99 onwards, we hear the trek home, with the occasional moments of trepidation as the children spook each other with their fanciful tales. In the end, though, we arrive safely at home because after all, magical beasts only exist in fairy tales don’t they? Andreas Ziegelbäck studied music education at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, and history at the Paris Lodron Universität, Salzburg. In addition to his studies, he trained in ensemble conducting for wind orchestra with conductor and composer Thomas Doss. It was Doss who sparked Ziegelbäck's interest in composing. In 2021, Andreas Ziegelbäck completed his composition studies with Johannes Maria Staud. In 2020, he took part in a brass band composition masterclass in Bern with Oliver Waespi, followed by a premiere by the Swiss Army Brass Band.

SKU: BA.BA11302

ISBN 9790006565429. 27 x 19 cm inches. Language: German.

Georg Christoph Billers „Drei Motetten“ für vielstimmig gemischten Chor, Solo-Bariton (in „St. Thomas-Motette“ und „Hiobs Botschaft“) und Bassinstrument (ad lib.) zeugen vom vielschichtigen Kompositionsstil des ehemaligen Thomaskantors und sind in praktischen Einzelausgaben mit separater Bassstimme erhältlich.

Georg Christoph Billers erste der „Drei Motetten“, „Hiobs Botschaft“ (2014), gibt die Erzählung des biblischen Hiob wieder: Hiobs Gottestreue wird mit schweren Leiden auf den Prüfstand gestellt. Die Motette für sechs- bis achtstimmigen gemischten Chor, Solo-Bariton und Bassinstrument (ad libitum) zeugt von einem autobiografischen Hintergrund des Komponisten.



Informationen zu den Audio-Aufnahmen (siehe Multimedia)

Hiobs Botschaft
Sächsischer Kammerchor (Einstudierung: Fabian Enders)
Dominic Große, Bariton
Volker Hemken, Bassklarinette
Leitung: Georg Christoph Biller
Aufnahme: 27. und 28. Juli 2015 in der Thomaskirche Leipzig
Tonmeister Tobias Hoff, Dominik Streicher / Rondeau Production
Die Aufnahme ist verfügbar innerhalb der CD-Box ROP4046:
www.rondeau.de/CD/ROP4046