New Carmina, No. 5
Iam ver oritur is No. 5 from the cycle New Carmina – a project initiated by the Vocalforum Graz and their director Franz M. Herzog. Twelve internationally renowned European composers accepted the invitation and have each composed a setting of one of the chosen texts of the Carmina Burana. In this way, there arose a complex, well-knit, full-length choral work – an impressive symbiosis between the witty text inserts, the medieval texts and the completely innovative, original ways in which the choral music, with its diversity of contemporary musical languages, treated these.
The composition by Franz M. Herzog, Iam ver oritur (Now spring is bursting forth), has spring for a theme – the reappearing birds, the harbringers of nature. They beguile humans and atempt them to thoughtless desire with their beauty. Joyfulness prevails.
