Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Sandström)
Es ist ein Ros sprung (Det är en ros utsprungen ) is a version of the Christmas carol Es ist ein Ros sprung for two mixed choirs a cappella by the Swedish composer Jan Sandström. The work was written in 1990 and involves the four -part setting by Michael Praetorius from the year 1609.
Composition
Jan Sandström composed the work in 1990. He went from the known four-part version of the song by Michael Praetorius (1609 ), which he slowed down line by line in an eight-part unaccompanied Summchor einbaute. Chorus I, singing Praetorius, can be sung by four solo voices. Choir II is consistently buzzed. Formal resembles the set of a chorale-fantasia, as he combines a cantus firmus with extraneous musical material. Unusually, Sandström not only the melody, but also their harmonization quoted and that it transfers the contrasting musical voices. Your non-text sums contributes to a successful international distribution. Originally listed Swedish, many international performances prefer the German version, which Praetorius had provided.
The work was first published in 1995 in the Sveriges Körförbunds Förlag, Stockholm. It is available as a single issue or in the collection of choral music Cantemus 3 In the United States it was published by Walton Music as Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming / Es ist ein Ros.
It is listed in F major in 4/4-time without tempo indication, with the tempo marking quarter note = 56, which is extremely slow when you consider that Sandström used almost exclusively long values and doubled the note values of Praetorius. The voices of choir II begin sequentially, from the lowest to the highest, first ppp and gradually increased to piano. All voices except Bass II, which endures on his first note F, move from their initial sound up to a second, on which they stand. So gradually forms a chord, is used in the chorus I measure 5, also ppp to piano and back to ppp on the words " Es ist ein Ros '. The chords in Chorus II change almost imperceptibly by small shifts or breaks of individual voices and support the harmonies in the set of Praetorius. Choir II sings alone for more than one clock before Chorus I continue, " from a root tender ".
The composition was chosen by The Virtual Music Library to the favorite piece for September 2003.
Individual performances and recordings
The composition is selected from demanding choirs and vocal ensembles as the highlight for Christmas programs. In 2007, she was part of the direct transmission on Christmas Eve from the Kings College Chapel, Cambridge, with the Choir of King 's College. The vocal ensemble Chanticleer led them to the 2007 and then issued a commission to Sandström, emerged from the The Word Became Flesh. 2010 transferred the BBC the piece twice in a Choral Evensong from Winchester College. The choirs of the New England Conservatory respect the work in 2011 in its program Lessons and Carols. It is on the program of the NDR choir in Hamburg's main church St. Nikolai.
2002, the Dresden Chamber Choir, conducted by Hans -Christoph Rademann, Es ist ein Ros sprung for his CD Christmas on. 2009, a CD entitled Es ist ein Ros ' sprung - Christmas Music for Choir and Organ with Vox Bona, the Chamber Choir of the Holy Cross Church, Bonn, headed by Karin Freist - Wissing. It combines several versions of the song, the set of Praetorius, a late chorale prelude by Johannes Brahms (Op. 122 No. 8), variations of Hugo Distler from The Christmas Story (1933 ) and Sandström's version, in connection with other Christmas music. Under the heading Internalised Christmas music reviewer likened Stefan Schmöe "floating soundscapes " of the Sandström theorem with an " acoustic halo ". John Miller described Sandström's version as " timeless, atmospheric, dream-like sound - scape of poignantly dissonant polyphonic strands " ( timeless, atmospheric, dreamlike soundscape emphasizes dissonant polyphonic strands ).
The Swedish Composers' Union, Society of Swedish Composers, chose the piece for Composer's Radio 2011, in addition to three works by Jan W Morthenson, Karin Rehnqvist and Mikael Edlund, under the title: Inspirations.