4 stops · about 27 minutes
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Stop 1
Begin with a single flame
Start where the whole catalogue starts — the opening song of Das Verlöschen. Four bare notes in the piano, a candle lit against the dark. Listen for the little rising-then-falling figure: it is the seed of everything that follows.
Votive Lied — Cycle: Das Verlöschen I · 4:42 -
Stop 2
Then hear the two voices
Now the partnership that made Voss's name — a duet with soprano Isabella Laurent, his grounded baritone and her soaring line braided into one instrument. This is Voss at his most openly beautiful.
Eternal Bond Oratorio Duet · 7:26 -
Stop 3
Sit with the quietest one
The still centre of the cycle: a memory-song in warm A-flat major, the lamp-motif turned upside down. Read the text as it plays — this is the kind of song the whole project is built to deliver.
The Lamp I Kept for You Intermezzo — Cycle: Das Verlöschen VI · 6:15 -
Stop 4
Finish at the summit
End with the crowning work — a single-movement choral symphony that climbs, terrace by terrace, toward a dawn it deliberately refuses to resolve. After this, the rest of the catalogue is yours to explore.
Was It Worth the Climbing Choral Symphony · 10:29
From here, the whole catalogue is yours.