Name: Alma redemptoris mater by Christian Hildebrandt in Choral Music
Duration: 6 min 21 s
Description: Composed by Christian Hildebrandt November 2004

Choral Music

Sarons Rose is a choral piece commissioned and composed in 2018 for Kristkirkens Kor in Copenhagen.

Højsangen 2.1-2 / Esajas 35.1-2

Jeg er Sarons rose, dalenes lilje
ødemark juble og blomstre med fryd,
midt iblandt torne, frodigt som rosen,
og juble, ja, juble med fryd.
Jeg er Sarons rose, dalenes lilje.

Sarons Rose

Fire saligprisninger
Komponeret 1995 af Christian Hildebrandt
Uropført 1999 af Ensemble Vest ved det første korprojekt i Komvest

Four Beatitudes
Composed 1995 by Christian Hildebrandt
Premiered 1999 by Ensemble Vest at the first Komvest choir project

Salige er de som tørster efter retfærdighed

Salige er de sagtmodige

Transportation for two pianos, composed in 2014 by Christian Hildebrandt.

Transportation

Composed 1992 by Christian Hildebrandt as Prelude V-VI from the collection of 24 Preludes for piano.

A kind of minuet from Watermark Music

Composed 2007 by Christian Hildebrandt, based on the song "Ilma on kaunis" from 2004.

Intermezzo for Alto Saxophone and Piano

Nordic Folk Tunes Suite

Three preludes for piano composed 1992-1993 by Christian Hildebrandt

Three Preludes

A meditative track (short version) for vocals, harp, singing bowls, shanti and kalimba. Recorded at Royal Academy of Music, 2011.
Composed 2011.

Inner Movements (forkortet version)

Steingrímur Rohloff's Doppelgängerkonzert was premiered by Odense Symphony Orchestra with soloists Rafaell Altino and Lawrence Power, Thursday 2 February 2023.

Steingrímur Rohloff: Doppelgängerkonzert (excerpt)

Counter-tenor: Francesco Giusti 
2004
Ornanted version of a motet by late renaissance and early baroque composer, Claudio Monteverdi. 
Organ: Roberto Gini


Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643) - Ego Flos Campi

Motet for Annunciation. Composed February 1997.

1999

Maria hun var en jomfru ren

Composed by Christian Hildebrandt, October 2001

Ps. 37, 9: adflictus sum et humiliatus sum nimis rugiebam a gemitu cordis mei.

Overs. 1931, Slm. 38, 9: jeg er lammet og fuldkommen knust, jeg skriger i Hjertets Vaande.

Transl. Ps. 38, 6: I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

Adflictus sum

Composed by Christian Hildebrandt November 2004

Alma redemptoris mater

Composed by Christian Hildebrandt December 2001

Ubi caritas

Composed by Christian Hildebrandt 2001-2005. Recording from performance by Ensemble Vest in Kristkirken 14 January 2005

Oculi omnium

Christian Hildebrandt is a Danish composer born in Dragør in 1967, specializing in choral music. His compositions blend Renaissance melodies with modal and late-Romantic harmonies, creating new connections between text and music. Hildebrandt's choral music is inspired by symbolism mixed with Renaissance techniques and a late-Romantic expression. He often uses texts to tell stories on multiple levels by adding new meanings.
As Casdijan Hilc, he composes electronic and experimental music, often with repetitive melodic lines.
Choral music (Christian Hildebrandt): Works include Stabat Mater, Ubi caritas, and Credo. He composed "Forvaltere af den solbeskinnede virkelighed," a mass commissioned by eight churches in Copenhagen
Electronic music (Casdijan Hilc): Characterized by a floating style with repetitive elements and gradually sliding layers, like clouds in different atmospheric layers. He experimented with computer music in the art group "PåKant" in the late 1990s.
Hildebrandt co-founded Komvest - Vesterbro Komponistforening, where he has organized many concerts1. His music can be found on YouTube and SoundCloud1. A concert series is planned for 2025 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the premiere of his Stabat Mater1.
Some of Hildebrandt's works in more detail:
Adflictus sum (2001) is a piece based on Psalm 37, 9, with a translation from Psalm 38, 6, expressing being troubled and bowed down.
Alma Redemptoris Mater (2004) is a piece that includes a reference to the hymn "Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden" and expresses the hope of rising from a fall.
Ego flos campi (2024) sets text from the Song of Songs.
Oculi omnium (2005) is based on Psalm 144. 15,16 and reflects on the provision of food at the right time.
The mass "Forvaltere af den solbeskinnede virkelighed" (Stewards of the Sunlit Reality) is a work with lyrics by Ursula Andkjær Olsen that blends traditional mass texts with personal and subjective expressions, emphasizing humanity's responsibility for the earth. It was commissioned by eight Copenhagen churches in 2010 and was performed in connection with the international Earth Hour event.
The mass includes traditional mass sections: introitus, kyrie, gloria, credo, sanctus-benedictus, and agnus dei.
The last movement of the mass, exitus, changes from an "I" to a "we" and focuses on the need to care for the earth.
The text of the mass is described as simple with few elements so the listeners can absorb the words.
The mass also incorporates a system of four through-composed tone rows, two of which are technical inversions of the other two.
The piece's Facebook page can be found at www.facebook.com/solbeskinnede.
In addition to his choral and electronic music, Hildebrandt has also written instrumental works, including two string quartets, chamber music, orchestral music, organ pieces and piano music. He also has a background in musicology, mathematics, and physics. He has taught music theory at the University of Copenhagen and conducted several choirs. Since 2014 he has served as a high school teacher in mathematics, physics and music.

Alma redemptoris mater

Christian Hildebrandt

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