A Small White Dove from Heaven (Es flog ein Täublein weiße)
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By Johannes Brahms / Words by David Gregor Corner / Ed. William J. Bullock
William J. Bullock's newest edition brings this lovely favorite for the season by Johannes Brahms to new audiences. His prosodic translation beautifully captures the spirit of the original German text to make this exquisite work even more accessible for any English-speaking listener!
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Brahms arranged over 150 folksongs for various performing forces, ranging from solo voice with piano to a cappella chorus. A few of the arrangements, including this one, are settings of sacred texts, which the composer produced for his chorus Singakademie in Catholic Vienna. Based on a poem about the Annunciation in a famous Catholic hymn collection, it consists of identical settings of three verses exploiting ancient contrapuntal techniques the composer was then studying. The folk melody is heard in the soprano against quasi-canonic imitation of fragments of that melody in the other three voices.
