Five Songs of Ariel SWR Vokalensemble & Yuval Weinberg

• Frank Martin (1890 - 1974): Five Songs of Ariel:
• 1 Martin: Five Songs of Ariel: Come unto these yellow sands 01:33
• 2 Martin: Five Songs of Ariel: Full fathom five thy father lies 03:35
• 3 Martin: Five Songs of Ariel: Before you can say 'Come' and 'Go' 00:57
• 4 Martin: Five Songs of Ariel: You are three men of sin 04:29
• 5 Martin: Five Songs of Ariel: Where the bee sucks, there suck I 01:12
• Total Runtime 11:46

Info for Five Songs of Ariel

Swiss and of remoter French ancestry, Frank Martin later settled in Holland, while teaching composition in Cologne. He had earlier been associated with the Dalcroze Institute, while enjoying a career also as a keyboard player and teacher. His music combines German and French elements in a musical idiom that is his own and which remained tonal even after the principles of Schoenberg’s serialism had been absorbed and adapted to his own particular use.

The SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, which performs the present recording, was founded in 1946 and is one of the leading international ensembles specialized in the vocal music of the 20th and 21st centuries. The ensemble was awarded the Echo Klassik in both 2011 and 2012 as well as the European Choral Prize of the Pro Europa Cultural Foundation for its pioneering commitment to contemporary vocal music in 2011. In 2013 it was nominated for a Grammy.

SWR Vokalensemble
Yuval Weinberg, direction

Yuval Weinberg
studied choral conducting with Jörg-Peter Weigle at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and with Grete Pedersen at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. He then began his training in orchestral conducting and singing at the Buchmann-Mehta Academy of Music at the University of Tel Aviv.

From 2015 to 2017 he was the conductor of the NOVA Chamber Choir in Oslo and the Norwegian National Youth Choir. Since summer 2019 he has been principal guest conductor of the Norwegian Soloist Choir and artistic director of EuroChoir. In October 2019 he was appointed chief conductor of the SWR Vocal Ensemble and will take up his post at the beginning of the 2020/21 season.

He also regularly conducts the Bavarian Radio Chorus in concert and on recordings. He has taken rehearsals for conductors such as Bernard Haitink, Herbert Blomstedt, Ottavio Dantone, Keri-Lynn Wilson and Tõnu Kaljuste. As a scholarship holder and finalist of the German Conductors’ Forum, supported by Tenso, the European network for professional chamber choirs, he has collaborated with such renowned choirs as Cappella Amsterdam, the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the MDR Radio Choir, the Netherlands Chamber Choir, the NDR Choir, the RIAS Chamber Choir, the Berlin Radio Choir and the Swedish Radio Choir.

Yuval Weinberg has won numerous international competitions. In 2017 he won first prize and the special prize for best conducting at the International Chamber Choir Competition in Marktoberdorf with the NOVA Chamber Choir from Oslo. In 2015 and 2016 he was sponsored by the Gary Bertini Foundation as the winner of the Young Talent Prize for Israeli choir directors. In 2014 he received first prize at the International Choir Conducting Competition in Wroclaw, as well as the jury’s special prize at the 2013 International Choir Conducting Competition in St Petersburg.

In addition to his work as music director of various youth choirs promoting young singers, he gives conducting courses and workshops at international festivals such as Europa Cantat and Les Choralies.

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