A recording of a recent performance of the 3rd movement of my setting of poems by Rilke "Les Quatrains Valaisans" by the outstanding Moores Concert Chorale of the University of Houston under the direction of Dr. Betsy Weber. 

Vois-tu, là-haut, ces alpages des anges
entre les sombres sapins?
Presque célestes, à la lumière étrange,
ils semblent plus que loin.

Mais dans la claire vallée et jusques aux crétes,
quel trésor aérien!
Tout ce qui flotte dans l'air et qui s'y reflète
entrera dans ton vin. 

Find the corresponding score sample on my website: www.cschurch.net

Les Quatrains Valaisans - III. Vois-tu, là-haut

A recording of a recent performance of the 4th movement of my setting of poems by Rilke "Les Quatrains Valaisans" by the outstanding Moores Concert Chorale of the University of Houston under the direction of Dr. Betsy Weber.

Quel calme nocturne, quel calme
nous pénètre du ciel.
On dirait qu'il refait dans la palme
de vos mains le dessin essentiel.

La petite cascade chante
pour cacher sa nymphe émue...
On sent la présence absente
que l'espace a bue. 

Find the corresponding score sample on my website: www.cschurch.net


Les Quatrains Valaisans - IV. Quel calme nocturne

Cyrill Schürch | Soirée

There are a few “standard” method books that are frequently used to teach the basics to beginners on the marimba or the xylophone. During a chat with my colleague and fellow teacher Raphael Christen, he suggested that it would be nice to have some new pieces to teach to his students. The idea stuck with me and within a few weeks, I was inspired to compose most of the pieces found in this collection. They are quirky, humorous and instructive miniatures that can be played on their own, or for even more fun, accompanied by marimba or piano. Enjoy!
Order it here: http://cschurch.net/product/2mallets-20-miniatures/

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Cyrill Schürch is an award-winning composer for chorus, orchestra, chamber and educational music as well as an active pianist. His music is performed widely in Switzerland and abroad, most recently in St. Petersburg by the Hermitage State Orchestra, in London by Ayre Flutes and in Houston by the Moores Concert Chorale. His music is published by EMR Switzerland and Carus-Verlag Germany. He received his PhD in composition from King’s College London, and a BM and MM in both composition and piano from the UH Moores School of Music. Currently, he is composing a piece for the final of the Mario Merz Prize and working on a commission for Europacantat 2015.

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Cyrill Schürch

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