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Release Date: 26-10-1998
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Catalog Number: 13105-2
Barcode: 13711310528
Musical Style: Classical
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wessobrunner Gebet für Chor a cappella Musik für Kinder IV Nr.34 (1954); Carl Orff [01:40] | 20 | Omnia tempus habent für gemischten Chor Pauken und kleine Trommel (Stücke für Sprechchor (1969); Carl Orff [02:22] |
| 2 | Veni Creator spiritus A Cappella Chöre (1929); Carl Orff [01:05] | 21 | Rubato molto allegro rubato Spielbuch für Xylophon III Nr.1 (1966); Gunild Keetman [02:11] |
| 3 | O Lux (Cantus Firmus Sätze/IV) A Cappella Chöre (1929); Carl Orff [02:34] | 22 | Abenlied (Matthias Claudius) für Sprechstimme Alt und Baß Metallophon Baß Xylophon Große Trommel und Weinglas Paralipomena Nr.18 (1977); Carl Orff [02:28] |
| 4 | Stücke Für Zwei Violinen Nr.1 (1931); Carl Orff [00:42] | 23 | Rondo (Sopran Blockflöte Altxylophon Templeblocks und Bongos) Musik für Kinder V Nr.23 (1954); Gunild Keetman [02:31] |
| 5 | Stücke Für Zwei Violinen Nr.2 (1931); Carl Orff [01:10] | 24 | Comodo (Two Altxylophone Sopranino Maracas und Zimbel) Musik für Kinder III Nr.18 (1953); Gunild Keetman [01:12] |
| 6 | Stücke Für Zwei Violinen Nr.3 (1931); Carl Orff [01:46] | 25 | Tranquillo (Sopran Blockflöte Alt Xylophon Alt Glockenspiel und Zimbel) Musik für Kinder I Nr.20 21 (1950); Gunild Keetman [02:18] |
| 7 | Stücke Für Zwei Violinen Nr.4 (1931); Carl Orff [00:56] | 26 | Rubato (Alt Blockflöte und Handtrommel) Musik für Kinder IV Nr.45 (1954); Gunild Keetman [01:22] |
| 8 | Stücke Für Zwei Violinen Nr.5 (1931); Carl Orff [00:35] | 27 | Con moto (Sopran Blockflöte Alt Xylophon und Triangel) Musik für Kinder III Seite 69 (1953); Gunild Keetman [01:40] |
| 9 | Stücke Für Zwei Violinen Nr.6 (1931); Carl Orff [00:45] | 28 | Andachtsjodler für gemischten Chor a cappella (Musik für Kinder III Nr.29 Version 2 (1953); Carl Orff [00:38] |
| 10 | Stücke Für Zwei Violinen Nr.7 (1931); Carl Orff [00:29] | 29 | Spielbuch für Xylophon III Nr.11 Allegro (1966); Gunild Keetman [01:20] |
| 11 | Stücke Für Zwei Violinen Nr.8 (1931); Carl Orff [00:48] | 30 | Spielbuch für Xylophon III Nr.12 Allegro (1966); Gunild Keetman [01:33] |
| 12 | Mater et filia für Frauenchor a cappella Musik für Kinder III Nr.30 (1953); Carl Orff [01:06] | 31 | Spielbuch für Xylophon III Nr.13 Jagdstück I (1966); Gunild Keetman [00:50] |
| 13 | Andachtsjodler für gemischten Chor a cappella Version 1 Musik für Kinder III Nr.29 (1953); Carl Orff [01:57] | 32 | Spielbuch für Xylophon III Nr.14 Jagdstück II (1966); Gunild Keetman [01:54] |
| 14 | Cantabile mit Sopran und Alt Xylophon Musik für Kinder III Nr.17/3 (1953); Gunild Keetman [01:46] | 33 | Spielbuch für Xylophon III Nr.15 Tranquillo (1966); Gunild Keetman [01:07] |
| 15 | Rondo mit Alt Xylophon und Schellen Tamburin Musik für Kinder IV Nr.4 S.111 (1954); Gunild Keetman [01:35] | 34 | Spielbuch für Xylophon III Nr.16 Grazioso (1966); Gunild Keetman [02:01] |
| 16 | Allegro moderato mit Alt Xytophon Bongos und Schellen Musik für Kinder IV Nr.3 S.142 (1954); Gunild Keetman [01:20] | 35 | Spielbuch für Xylophon III Nr.17 Allegro (1966); Gunild Keetman [01:09] |
| 17 | Allegro moderato mit Alt Xylophon Musik für Kinder IV Nr.4 S.143 (1954); Gunild Keetman [01:07] | 36 | Wiegenlied beim Mondschein zu singen (Matthias Claudius) für Sprechstimme und drei Marimbaphone Paralipomena Nr.33 (1977); Carl Orff [02:39] |
| 18 | Andante con moto mit Alt Xylophon und Castagnetten Musik für Kinder IV Nr.5 S.144 (1954); Gunild Keetman [01:27] | 37 | Incipiunt Laudes Creaturarum quas fecit Beatus Franciscusad laudem et Honorem Dei (Sonnengesang des hl. Franziskus) für gemischten Chor a cappella aus Concento di voci II (1954 [05:17] |
| 19 | Der Tod (Matthias Claudius) für Sprechstimme two Hoizgiocken Baß Xylophon und Tam Tam (Paralipomena Nr.20 (1977); Carl Orff [01:22] | ||
Description:
Pieces included in Orff-Schulwerk Volume 2: Musik für Kinder are taken from the entire range of Schulwerk publications. This recording presents a lifetime project of unending diversity, summarized in hymn-like choral pieces, masterly magical spoken works and instrumental pieces both playful and melancholy. Musik für Kinder is released as people around the world celebrate the centenary of Carl Orff's birth, observed July 10, 1995. What is it that makes this composer's music so enduring? More remarkably, what is it that fills the Schulwerk with freshness and vitality almost fifty years after its first publication? Carl Orff believed in the great power that lies in reduction to the fundamental. His effort was to provide music which works together with, rather than in opposition to, the human spirit. In this way inherent musical ability can be drawn out of each and every individual. Orff himself said, “It was only given to me to present these old, imperishable ideas in today's terms, to make them come alive for us. I do not feel like the creator of something new, but more...like a relay runner who lights his torch at the fires of the past and brings it into the present.” These Schulwerk recordings produced one hundred years after the composer's birth may well be considered the torch which brings Carl Orff's music into our present.
Godela Orff, the only child of Carl Orff, interprets three of the spoken pieces on this recording. Better aquainted with her father's diction than anyone, Godela Orff performed the spoken roles in the television series Musik für Kinder. The Madrigalchor der Hochschule für Musik in München, conducted by Max Frey, performs choral parts. Other performers on this recording include violinists Carolin Widmann and Sonja Korkeala. Markus Zahnhausen plays recorder; Karl Peinkofer, Wilfried Hiller, Andreas Schumacher and Martin Ruhland perform parts written for percussion.
Biography:
Artistic director and co-producer of the recording, Wilfried Hiller worked with Carl Orff during his lifetime and is the named artistic executor of Orff's estate. In each volume of the Orff-Schulwerk series, Hiller continues to produce the Schulwerk in a manner faithful to Orff's intentions.
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