A delightful suite for Voice and Piano from Der Vogelhandler by Austrian composer Carl Zeller. This inventive and enduring Opera in three acts is based on the Libretto by Moritz West and Ludwig Held. Der Vogelhandler or the Bird seller tells the charming story of a Tyrolean bird seller and his many loves. It contains lush rich and alluring melodies and was particularly fresh when it was premiered in 1891 for a time revitalising the Operetta genre.

Par MAUERSBERGER RUDOLF. Rudolf Mauersberger, the cantor of the Dresden Kreuzkirche, shaped his Christvesper in the Christmas tradition of the “Erzgebirge” in Saxony. The work underwent a long period of gestation and first attained its final form in 1963. The entire church is used for a performance: On the altar the Christmas story from Luke is presented, in four different corners of the church the “Quempas” or responsorial singing between congregation and cantor takes place, and in the gallery “Die Weissagung” or “Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe” are sung; in addition the chorales and songs are performed by a separate group of instruments. Thus the Christvesper, this impressive choral work which is still in therealm of tonality, provides a new accent in the well-known Christmas repertoire./ Répertoire / Solo S (Garçon) T, HauptChoeur (Choeur à 4 à 8 Par

2016 marks the first centenary of the death of Max Reger. In addition to his best-known field of creativity Organ music his choral compositions form another major part of his oeuvre.This edition contains a selection of his sacred a cappella choral works. Their scoring level of difficulty and length make them ideal for choirs who are wary of tackling the large-scale Op.110 motets. For the first time the selection of works includes the previously unpublished Acht Grabgesänge (1900). The pieces are arranged in chronological order culminating in the well-known cycle of Acht geistliche Gesänge op. 138 (1914).ContentsTantum ergoSacramentum (1895)Maria Himmelsfreud! (1899-1900)Acht Grabgesänge (ca. 1900)Acht Marienlieder op. 61d (1901)Sechs Trauergesänge op. 61g (1901)Palmsonntagmorgen (1902)Vier Kirchengesänge (1904)Easter motet: Lasset uns den Herren preisen (1911)Abschiedslied (1914)Acht geistliche Gesänge op. 138 (1914)The EditorMichael Chizzali has been a scholarly assistant at the Institute of Musicology in Weimar-Jena (Germany) since 2014. His dissertation on Reger?s contemporary the Tyrolean composer Josef Gasser (1873-1957) was published in Innsbruck in 2014.All extant sources consultedEdition for the first centenary of Reger?s deathCross-section of Reger?s music for a cappella choirForeword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng)