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Drei Gesänge, Op 111b
composer
Max Reger (1873-1916)
four-part unaccompanied upper voices; dedicated to the Hamburger Frauenquartett

Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Boosey & Hawkes

Recordings
Cover of 'Reger: Choral Music' (CDA67762)
Reger: Choral Music
Consortium, Andrew-John Smith (conductor)
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CDA67762 
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No 1: Im Himmelreich ein Haus steht
author of text
Will Vesper (1882-1962)
after the anonymous 12th-century Lieder von Spervogel

Consortium, Andrew-John Smith (conductor)
Track 8 on CDA67762 [2'08]
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No 2: Abendgang im Lenz  Selig durch die Fluren gehn
author of text
Hedwig Kiesekamp (1844-1919)
under the pseudonym L Rafael

Consortium, Andrew-John Smith (conductor)
Track 9 on CDA67762 [2'16] (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
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No 3: Er ist's  Frühling läßt sein blaues Band
author of text
Eduard Mörike (1804-1875)

Consortium, Andrew-John Smith (conductor)
Track 10 on CDA67762 [3'13] (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
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Drei Gesänge, Op 111b
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The three songs for unaccompanied four-part women’s choir that make up Op 111b employ a diverse range of styles within their modest proportions. The first song is set entirely homophonically; this almost medieval effect, reinforced by the curious dissonances that precede each cadence, is an appropriate response to the text, which Will Vesper (1892–1962) based on an anonymous twelfth-century Mittelhochdeutsch song. The second song, a setting of ‘Abendgang im Lenz’ by Hedwig Kiesekamp (1844–1919), writing under the pseudonym L Rafael, reverts to the chromatic harmony we more customarily associate with Reger. The final song, meanwhile, uses a text by Eduard Mörike (1804–1875) that had previously been set by Schumann and Wolf, among many others: part of its appeal to musicians must lie in its invocation of the soft sound of ‘a distant harp’—a sound effectively conjured up by Reger with a rare sustained consonant chord.

from notes by Michael Downes © 2010

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