The Choirmaster's Burial 騎熊士版

這首樂曲用文字繪畫的方式重新講述了湯瑪斯-哈代的經典詩歌，講述了一位老男高音和他的合唱團長的死。男子和女子分為兩個合唱團，男子代表講述故事的老男高音，女子代表天使合唱團，演唱安魂彌撒中的聖歌 "In Paradisium"。

作曲家: Jansson, Mårten
出版社: Bärenreiter 騎熊士(小熊版)
難度: 4
原文簡介:
This piece uses word painting to re-tell Thomas Hardy’s classic poem about an old tenor and the death of his choirmaster. The men and women are divided into two choirs; the men represent the old tenor telling the story and the women represent an angelic chorus singing the antiphon “In Paradisium” from the Requiem Mass.

“My music is my own and I have never tried to be original. That has always been my motto and I have only tried to use music to express all the feelings which life has to offer. This has led people to describe my music as ‘so sad that it sounds like birds who have lost their wings‘ but also as ‘the happiest classical music that we have ever heard’.

My compositions are almost all sacred. They express not only my own faith but also my appreciation and respect for the timeless texts that have been used for centuries and centuries.”

Mårten Jansson (b. 1965), elected member of the Föreningen svenska tonsättare (the Society of Swedish Composers), graduated from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm (KHM) with an MFA degree in Music Education, Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Voice. For more than ten years he was the music director and conductor of “Carmen”, one of the most prominent womens’ vocal ensembles in Sweden. He currently teaches choral conducting and music theory as well as giving vocal tuition at the Bolandgymnasiet and Musikskolan in his home town of Uppsala.

Please find a recording of "The Choirmaster's Burial" performed by the Riga Recording Studio Singers (Latvia) by clicking on Multimedia.