Dátum vydania: 3.10.2025
Respighi: Lauda per la Nativita del Signore
Work lengt h24:08
cast:
Relja Kalapis, Jesús Villa Ordónez, Emma Schied, Ramón Ortega Quero, Ivanna Ternay, Natalie Schwaabe, Eunkyung Shin, Andrew Lepri Meyer, Ruth Volpert, Max Hanft, Fritz Schwinghammer
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Howard Arman
No. 1, Pastor, voie che vegghiate
No. 2, E de ciò ve dò in segno
No. 3, Segnor, tu se' disceso
No. 4, Ecco quilla stallecta
No. 5, O car dolce mio figlio
No. 6, Figliuol, t'ho partorito
No. 7, Gloria
No. 8, Contenti n'andremo
No. 9, Vogliove consolare
No. 10, Gloria in excelsis Deo
trad.: O sanctissima (Arr. for Choir by Howard Arman)
Work length 3:29
cast:
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Howard Arman
Frontini, F P: Canti religiosi del popolo siciliano
Work length 18:54
cast:
Natalie Schwaabe, Ivanna Ternay, Ramón Ortega Quero, Emma Schied, Jesús Villa Ordónez, Relja Kalapis, Andreu Ferrandis, Max Hanft, Fritz Schwinghammer
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Howard Arman
No. 10, Canzonetta di pastori (Arr. for Choir & Chamber Ensemble by Howard Arman)
No. 4, La nascita del Bambino Gesù (Arr. for Choir & Chamber Ensemble by Howard Arman)
No. 7, Canzone di Natale (Arr. for Choir & Chamber Ensemble by Howard Arman)
No. 8, A Gesù bambino (Arr. for Choir & Chamber Ensemble by Howard Arman)
No. 5, La nascita del Bambino Gesù (Arr. for Choir & Chamber Ensemble by Howard Arman)
No. 1, Litania e pastorale della cornamusa (Arr. for Choir & Chamber Ensemble by Howard Arman)
No. 9, A Gesù bambino (Arr. for Choir & Chamber Ensemble by Howard Arman)
No. 6, Pastorale (Arr. for Choir & Chamber Ensemble by Howard Arman)
Puccini: Sogno d'or, SC 82 (Arr. for Voice, Choir & Orchestra by Howard Arman)
Work length 4:05
cast:
Chen Reiss
Munich Radio Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Howard Arman
On its new CD from BR-KLASSIK, the Bavarian Radio Chorus, directed by Howard Arman, presents Christmas music from Italy. With his Lauda per la natività del Signore, Ottorino Respighi modernised the medieval nativity play of the same name by the religious lyricist Jacopone da Todi. He had already explored art forms of the past in adaptations of early music, re-creations and free works based on Gregorian chants. In this piece, he assigned the medieval verses to three soloists - the angel (soprano), the Virgin Mary (mezzo-soprano), and the shepherd (tenor) - as well as a chamber choir. Accompanied by selected woodwind instruments reminiscent of the music of Italian shepherds, and by four-handed piano and triangle, the miracle of Christmas is brought to life in a simple yet impressive way.
Francesco Paolo Frontini is remembered less for his compositions than for his many collections of Sicilian folk songs. From his Canti religiosi del popolo siciliano (Religious Songs of the Sicilian People, published in 1938), a collection of 22 songs for voice and piano underlaid with Sicilian dialect verses and their Italian translations, Howard Arman selected eight songs and arranged them for choir and instruments. Like Frontini, who already included regional variants from Catania, Palermo, and other parts of the Mediterranean island, Arman also arranged different regional versions of two songs. The melody of the Italian Marian carol O sanctissima, which is one of the most popular Christmas carols in the German-speaking countries with its opening verse O du fröhliche, could possibly also have originated from Sicily. The arrangement is once again by Howard Arman.