Daarler Vocal Consort: |Lost in Transition

“All is but mere transition. / Heed well these earnest words: / from the hour, from the place / driven by an inner urge. / Death is life, dying a gate. / All is but mere transition”. These words are said to have been inscribed on an old Viennese bridge. They inspired Georg Grün to his composition “Lost in Transition”, and motivated the Daarler Vocal Consort for the recording of their present disc under the same title. The disc features music from the sixteenth century through to contemporary pieces – from Gesualdo, Demantius, Cornelius, and Reger to Mäntyjärvi, Moody, and Grün, who sings with the Daarler Vocal Consort himself. These pieces reflect those situations of life in which time stands still, in which the world is no longer what it used to be, but not yet what it will be – the unknown; and the Daarler Vocal Consort lucidly and transparently give voice to these situations. The present CD is already Rondeau Production’s second recording with the ensemble: the first, “Zwischen Himmel und Erde” (CD ROP6034), received a Pizzicato Excellentia Award.