The complete Part-Songs for mixed chorus a cappella

- The first ever complete recording of Mendelssohn's A Cappella Songs for Mixed Chorus!

- There is simply no better chorus conductor in the world today than Uwe Gronostay for this repertoire and no other choir to perform these lovely works better and more idiomatically than the Netherlands Chamber Choir!

- As all the composers from the first half of the 19th century, Mendelssohn was a great lover of Nature, and this love is reflected in these songs. On the cover we reproduced a painting by Mendelssohn himself, which he made on one of his walking travels.

- The first GLOBE recording with the Netherlands Chamber Choir, featuring DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU as soloist in a program of cborus songs by Liszt and a Mass by Rheinberger met with great success, already lots of fine reviews and several nominations in magazines and radio programs as CD of the Week or Month.

- In September, German television will produce a special featuring the Netherlands Chamber Choir and Uwe Gronostay in performances of these songs by Mendelssohn, which will be broadcast in Germany later in the year.

The Netherlands Chamber Choir was founded by Felix de Nobel in 1937, and is a fully professional vocal ensemble consisting of 24 singers. Although it applies itself nowadays first of all to the repertory for either a cappella chorus or works with accompaniments by single instruments, It also collaborates regularly with such renowned ensembles and orchestras as the Schonberg Ensemble, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Frans Brüggen's Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and Ton Koopmans' Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.

The repertory of the Netherlands Chamber Choir spans almost the whole of Western music, ranging from the early Middle Ages to the late 20th century. Uwe Gronostay had been its artistic leader and chief conductor since 1988.
In its 50th anniversary season 1987-88, the Choir performed in Canada, Italy and Japan. In 1988-89 it toured 14 European cities (from Moscow to Lisbon) with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, and In 1989-90 the Choir went on an extended tour of Germany (Berliner Festwochen and Festspiele der Allen Oper Frankfurt among them) and also visited Israel for the third time.