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En el bosque helado
Cantata de Nadal 2008 - vol. 4
Coro infantil, Coro mixto, Piano y Orq. cámara
CAPELLAS, XavierReg.: CN0004
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- Ensemble: Chamber orchestra: With voice/choir.
- Genres: Classical / contemporary: Chamber.
- Lyric author: CODERQUE, Isabel
- Language: Español / Castellano
- Language of the comment: Spanish, Catalan, English
- Product format: Partitura
- Difficulty level: Advanced-superior
- Period: 2nd half S. XX - XXI
- Publishing house: Editorial Boileau
- Collection: Cantata de Nadal
- No. of pages: 56
- Measure: 32,00 x 23,00 cm
- ISMN: 979-0-3503-3833-5
- Available in digital: No
- Available for rent: No
Children Choir and Mixed Choir
1 1 1 0 – 0 2 0 0 – 1perc – kybd – str
perc: ttam, cym, tmp
THE ORCHESTRA MATERIALS AND THE PARTICELLAS FOR CHOIR ARE SOLD SEPARATELY
Christmas is a time of joy. Without a doubt, yes, maybe. But also of melancholy, of looking back, towards a beginning that was perhaps painful, and that the more it moves away from us the more it seems to rush, wrapped in a cold, white mist, towards some form of ending. These words reflect the spirit of the text and the music of En el bosque helado (In the Frozen Forest), a cantata divided into two movements, in a tonal language that serves the text to illustrate a journey through an imaginary landscape, on the edge between life and infinite silence.
The music begins in «Lenta, incesante» (Slow, Incessant) with a light ostinato that describes through the string section and the children’s choir the snowflakes falling in an imaginary landscape, while the ringing bells are heard in the distance.
In the second movement, «Callada, infinita»” (Quiet, Infinite), the orchestra and choirs reach their highest intensity when death «bursts into the silence»" in the form of a fast-paced race. The tenor solo, «¡Esperad, no os vayáis sin mí!» (Wait, do not leave without me!”), gives voice to the imaginary protagonist, who also travels to infinity. The composition concludes with the same calm of the beginning, evoking eternity.
Isabel Coderque
Xavier Capellas
The Cantata de Nadal Collection
The Cantata de Nadal [Christmas Cantata] Project is based on the premiere of a cantata for children’s choir, mixed choir and chamber orchestra, composed by a contemporary composer based on texts of Catalan poets. This formula, which requires the integration of three different musical formations, brings together three differing values: the musical creativity, the intergenerational participation and the updating and modernization of our Christmas tradition.
In the various previous editions we have been privileged to collaborate with the actresses Carme Sansa, Marta Angelat and Mercè Arànega, who recited texts and poems to highlight the spoken Word combined with music in order to give the cantata a greater theatrical dimension.
For the children’s and youth choirs, the Christmas Cantata provides an opportunity to sing together with a mixed choir and an orchestra a choral symphony composition. This experience gives them an artistic challenge of working with a degree of difficulty and complexity greater than what they are used to, within an intergenerational framework.
We are convinced that the experience of interpreting this work will lead them to enjoy communicating emotions to the audience and at the same time will contribute to improve the quality of their choral family or choral school.
Xavier Baulies
Director, Camerata Sant Cugat and Coral Polifónica de Tremp
Artistic director of the Cantata de Nadal Collection
Fitxa tècnica de l’estrena / Participants in the Premiere / Ficha técnica del estreno
Pròleg / Prologue / Prólogo
Prefaci / Preface / Prefacio
Poemes / Poems / Poemas
En el bosque helado
I Lenta, incesante
II Callada, infinita
El compositor / The Composer / El compositor
El poeta / The Poet / El poeta
Obres de la col·lecció / Collection's Works / Obras de la colección
