SCHÖNBERG · STRAUSS · MAHLER

Recording on our partner label Carus, Frieder Bernius and his Kammerchor Stuttgart release their album featuring choral-only arrangements of works by Richard Strauss, Arnold Schönberg and Gustav Mahler.  

Dubbed by music critics the “father” of modern choral singing, the arranger Clytus Gottwald (1925–2023) possessed the special gift of translating the most diverse compositions for solo voice and instrumental accompaniment into a pure, polyphonic choral sound.  

The album features choral arrangements of ten songs by Richard Strauss as well as a stunning 16-part transcription of the Adagietto from Gustav Mahler’s 5th Symphony. Further included is an original composition, namely Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth), one of the few choral works of the Second Viennese School, presented here in the year of Arnold Schoenberg’s 150th birthday (13 September).