Eleven Years - Eleven Languages - South African Choral Music III | CD

Michael Dingaan
University of Pretoria Camerata
University of Pretoria Chorale
University of Pretoria Concert Choir
Johann van der Sandt

Werke von: Dr. Niel van der Watt, Traditional, Awie van Wyk, Michael Mosoeu Moerane, Solomon Linda

Message from Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus

Congratulations on this worthy project. I commend you on this celebration of our linguistic diversity. Through our mother tongue we express our deepest thoughts and dream our richest dreams. We have a wonderful country with wonderful people - I hope that all South Africans will want to learn the language of their neighbours so they can experience more fully the blessings of our rainbow nation.God bless you+Desmond M Tutu Archbishop Emeritus


Message from Prof. Calie Pistorius,Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of PretoriaThe University of Pretoria strives to give its students the opportunity to experience a variety of extramural activities in addition to their formal studies so as to become well-rounded citizens. Membership of the University’s choirs in one of the ways that this is achieved. Besides informal groups, the University currently has three major choirs: the Tuks Camerata, the Chorale and the Concert Choir, the repertoires of which concentrate on different genres of choral music, thereby show-casing the cultural diversity that characterizes the University’s campuses.South Africa’s cultural diversity is portrayed strongly through the eleven languages that are given official recognition in the country’s Constitution. Each is a key to unlocking the cultural doors of the peoples of South Africa, doors that all open into the common home of the “rainbow nation”, a home in which the diverse cultural assets of our nation are to be respected and cherished.One means of encouraging this is through the use of the truly international medium of communication, music. Singing in each other’s languages promotes understanding and appreciation of the traditions of our diverse country, besides conveying beauty and pleasure to the artists and audience alike. And what more auspicious occasion exists for doing this, for using our eleven languages, than on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year of South Africa’s democratic era?As a visual portrayal of the concept of one home nurturing diverse traditions, the cover of this CD pictures a nest with the eggs of several South African birds in it, each symbolizing the treasures of its species, and all contained in a mutually supportive environment, our South African homeland.Working, playing and singing together, respecting what each has to offer, for the common good, will undoubtedly contribute to the success of the South African nation. I would therefore like to thank those who conceived the idea of this CD and commend it, not only to music lovers, but to all who appreciate crossing cultural boundaries in pursuit of the treasures that are waiting to be found by those who do so.Professor Calie Pistorius

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1     2:24      Traditional: Skhandamayrza
2     2:38      Traditional: Ye Thelebuke
3     3:51      Niel van der Watt: Psalm 23
4     3:56      Traditional: Ndizamela wena mtanam
5     2:19      Traditional: Ka Melami!
6     1:52      Traditional: We are marching to Pretoria
7     1:32      Traditional: Yemulamu wam
8     4:45      Michael Mosoeu Moerane: Ruri
9     1:31      Traditional: We Majekeje
10   2:20      Traditional: Ndandihleli
11   1:16      Traditional: Ntwedi - Ntwela
12   4:32      Awie van Wyk: 1 Korintiërs 13
13   1:24      Traditional: Tuva
14   1:16      Traditional: Timanga / Kwela Kwela
15   5:20      Niel van der Watt: Because Of You
16   1:23      Traditional: Kgomo dinaana
17   1:33      Traditional: Hogo
18   1:58      Traditional: Sana lwam
19   1:28      Traditional: Mma’gwe ke moloi
20   1:06      Traditional: Mme o tlile
21   1:32      Traditional: IParadisi
22   1:00      Traditional: Le mmeile kae ngwana oa Morena?
23   4:57      Michael Mosoeu Moerane: SYLVIA
24   1:50      Traditional: Wen’ulandelana nami
25   3:11      Solomon Linda: Mbube - In the jungle
26   2:14      Traditional: Siyakhuleka Mnomzana / Jika Maleleza
27   4:17      Traditional (arr. Chris Lamprecht): Aandgesang
28   2:13      Traditional: Mutshavhona
29   4:21      Traditional: Siya lobola gogo

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STEREO · Order code 00161 · EAN 4025531001612 · CD · Productionright 2005 prospect Studio-Label-Verlag GmbH, © 2005 prospect Studio-Label-Verlag GmbH · LC 03695 · Made in Germany · Recorded (High School for Girls, Pretoria, South Africa, 2005-09), edited and mastered by prospect (Helmstedt, Germany) · Total duration 74:41 · Coverphoto and design by prospect · Printed in Germany · All rights reserved