Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Alma Maria Mahler-Werfel, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg
Performer: Netherlands Chamber Choir
Conductor: Peter Dijkstra
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA638
Release: 2022
Size: 1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Saint-Saëns: 2 Choruses, Op. 68
01. No. 1, Calme des nuits
02. No. 2, Les fleurs et les arbres
03. Debussy: Les angélus (Arr. for Choir by Clytus Gottwald)
Debussy: 3 Chansons de Charles d’Orleans, L. 92
04. No. 1, Dieu ! qu’il la fait bon regarder !
05. No. 2, Quand j’ay ouy le tabourin
06. No. 3, Yver, vous n’estes qu’un vilain
Debussy: Préludes, Livre 1, L.117
07. No. 6, … Des pas sur la neige (Arr. for Choir by Clytus Gottwald)
Satie: 3 gymnopédies
08. I. Lent et douloureux (Arr. for Choir by William Knight)
Strauss: 3 Männerchöre, TrV 270
09. No. 2, Traumlicht
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor “Resurrection”
10. IV. Urlicht (Arr. for Choir by Clytus Gottwald)
Mahler-Werfel: 5 Lieder
11. No. 3, Laue Sommernacht (Arr for Choir by Clytus Gottwald)
12. Mahler: Im Abendrot (From Adagietto of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5)
Mahler-Werfel: 5 Lieder
13. No. 1, Die stille Stadt (Arr. for Choir by Clytus Gottwald)
Mahler: Rückert Lieder
14. No. 3, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Arr. for Choir by Clytus Gottwald)
15.Schoenberg: Dreimal tausend Jahre, Op. 50a
16. Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden, Op. 13 (1907 Version for Choir)
With “Van Gogh in Me”, the Netherlands Chamber Choir presents an experience in which the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh and Gustav Klimt come to life to the music of the great Romantic and early 20th century composers such as Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Mahler… and, in a world premiere, a transcription for a cappella choir of Satie’s first Gymnopédie. Originally written for solo piano, this work, which is known and played throughout the world, finds a new magical and celestial dimension in this new version for choir.
Mentioning the name of Van Gogh immediately evokes in each of us a colour, a landscape, a sensation… Hence the idea of creating an immersive audiovisual experience: the choir approached an Italian collective, fuse*, to link images and sounds to the emotions of the musicians and the audience… fuse* developed an algorithm based on the works of Van Gogh and Klimt by recording their styles, colours, brushstrokes… then, during the concert, collects the sound of the choir but also biometric data that analyses the emotional state of the audience, the singers and the conductor, and creates visuals in real time, an astonishing show of colours and shapes that mixes sound, images and emotions… The visual of the album is inspired by these experiments.