Herr Gott, dich loben wir. Church music IX
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- Help me, Lord, in my affliction
- O God, from heaven look on us
- Kommt, lasst uns anbeten
- Kommet herzu
- Denn in seiner Hand
- Denn sein ist das Meer
- Heute, so ihr Stimme höret
- Ach Gott, vom Himmel
- Recitativo (Bass): Barmherzig und gnädig
- Aria: Das Silber durchs Feur (Solo Basso)
- Choral: Das wollst du, Gott
- Psalm 5
- Defend me, Lord from shame
- Cantique pour l’Eglise Wallonne de Francfort
- Lass, o Herr (Solo A e Coro)
- Deines Kinds Gebet erhöre (Solo A e Coro)
- Herr, wir trau’n auf deine Güte (Solo A e Coro)
- Lasst sein heilig Lob uns singen (Coro)
- Psalm 2
- Psalm 24
- Psalm 31
- Psalm 91
- Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
- Der Herr lässt sein Heil verkündigen
- Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt
- Er wird den Erdkreis richten
- Hark! The herald angels sing
- Psalm 93
- Psalm 98
- Psalm 100
- Lord God, thy praise we sing
- Dein göttlich Macht und Herrlichkeit
- Du König der Ehren Jesu Christ!
- Lass uns im Himmel haben Teil
- Täglich, Herr Gott, dich loben wir
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Larry Todd
The setting of psalms inspired Mendelssohn throughout his compositional career, from the youthful version of Psalm 66 for double female chorus (1822) to the masterly setting of selected verses from Psalm 91 (“Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen”) for double chorus and orchestra in Elijah (1846). Between 1830 and 1843 Mendelssohn’s psalm composition culminated in a series of five major works, which required a variety of solo, choral, and orchestral forces. The first of these, Psalm 115, op. 31, appeared in 1835, and was followed in quick succession by Psalms 42, 95, 114, and 98. Rather like a hybrid of the Bachian cantata and Handelian oratorio, these psalm settings established a genre of sacred music that came to be highly prized during the nineteenth century (regrettably, today they remain among the least performed of Mendelssohn’s sacred music). Robert Schumann, who had already praised the composer of St. Paul as “die Vorrede einer schönen Zukunft” (“the herald of a fair future”), reviewed Psalm 42 enthusiastically as the work in which Mendelssohn had attained the “höchste Stufe, die er als Kirchencomponist, die die
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1. Coro (e Tenore solo)
O! Come let us worship
and kneel before the Lord,
and bow down to him, the Lord our Maker,
come, bow the knee to the Lord.
For he is our God, and we are the flock
of his pasture and the people of his hand.2. Coro (e Soprano solo)
Come let us sing,
sing to the Lord with gladness!
Come, let us sing and let us rejoice in his strength!
Come to his presence with a song of thanksgiving
and with tuneful rejoicing!
For the Lord is a mighty God
and a mighty ruler over all false idols.3. Duetto (Soprano I e II solo)
In his hands are all the corners of the earth,
and the strength of the hills is also his.
Come, let us worship and kneel before the Lord!4. Coro (e Tenore solo)
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1. Coro (e Tenore solo)
Kommt, lasst uns anbeten
und knien vor dem Herrn,
anbeten vor ihm, der uns gemacht hat,
und niederfallen vor ihm.
Denn er ist unser Gott und wir das Volk
seiner Weide und Schafe seiner Hand.2. Coro (e Soprano solo)
Kommet herzu,
lasst uns dem Herrn frohlocken!
Kommet herzu, und jauchzen dem Hort unsers Heils.
Lasst uns mit Danken vor sein Angesicht kommen,
und mit Psalmen ihm jauchzen!
Denn der Herr ist ein großer Gott
und ein großer König über alle Götter.3. Duetto (Soprano I e II solo)
Denn in seiner Hand ist, was die Erde bringt,
und die Höhen der Berge sind auch sein.
Kommt, lasst uns beten und knien vor dem Herrn!4. Coro (e Tenore solo)
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Allegro
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied,
denn er tut Wunder.
Er sieget mit seiner Rechten
und mit seinem heiligen Arm.
Andante lento
Der Herr lässt sein Heil verkündigen;
vor den Völkern lässt er seine Gerechtigkeit offenbaren.
Er gedenket an seine Gnade und Wahrheit dem Hause Israel.
Aller Welt Enden sehn das Heil unsers Gottes.
Andante con moto
Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt.
Lobet den Herrn mit Harfen!
Mit Trompeten und Posaunen
jauchzt vor dem Herrn, dem Könige!
Das Meer brause und was darinnen ist,
der Erdboden und die darauf wohnen.
Die Wasserströme frohlocken
und alle Berge seien fröhlich vor dem Herrn;
denn er kommt, das Erdreich zu richten.
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Allegro
Sing now to God new songs of praise,
for he does wonders.
He conquers with hand most mighty
and with all the strength of his arm
Andante lento
The Lord makes salvation known to us;
to the nations he makes known all his righteousness and his justice.
He remembers his mercy and faithfulness to the house of Israel;
all the earth’s corners have beheld his salvation.
Andante con moto
Shout to the Lord, all the earth;
Sing to the Lord with psalt’ry,
With the trumpet and the shofar
sing to the Lord, the King of all.
O sea, roar, and all things that are therein,
the earth also and all creatures on it.
O water brooks, clap your hands now,
and all you mountains be exultant in the Lord,
for he comes to judge all the nations.
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Abridged foreword of the Edition Carus 40.075
R. Larry Todd
"Ich ernenne Sie zum General-Musik-Direktor und vertraue Ihnen die Oberaufsicht und Leitung der kirchlichen und geistlichen Musik als Wirkungskreis an." ("I appoint you General Music Director and entrust to you the supervision and direction of church and sacred music as your sphere of activity.") Mendelssohn's appointment by King Frederick William IV as the royal director of Prussian church music formslast years. The king dated his order November 22, 1842, though Mendelssohn did not take up permanent residence in Berlin until the end of November 1843, and he remained there only for one year before resettling in Frankfurt in December 1844. He finished several sacred works for the king during this time, but today they have generally fallen into neglect, especially in comparison to the incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (1843), Mendelssohn's best known work commissioned by the King.
From the start, the exact nature of Mendelssohn's duties as Generalmusikdirektor was unclearly defined. The king intended to consolidate and augment various royal church choirs to form one highly trained ensemble under Mendelssohn's general direction. Its principal
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Composer
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
| 1809-1847
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Preface writer
R. Larry Todd
Prof. Dr. R. Larry Todd ist Arts & Sciences Professor of Music, Duke University, Durham. Bei Carus hat er zahlreiche Werke von Mendelssohn herausgegeben, darunter die Oratorien Elias, Paulus sowie Christus. Seine bei Carus in deutscher Sprache erschienene Mendelssohn-Biografie ist zumStandardwerk für Forschung und Mendelssohn-Fans geworden.
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Choir
Kammerchor Stuttgart
The Kammerchor Stuttgart is regarded as one of the best ensembles of its kind. Over its fifty-year existence, Frieder Bernius has developed the choir into an exceptional ensemble acclaimed by audiences and press alike. This has led to invitations for the choir to perform at all the important European festivals. In Germany the chamber choir performs at festivals and in concert halls in repertoire ranging from the 17th to the 21st century. Frieder Bernius and his ensemble have received numerous accolades for their contribution to new music. The Kammerchor Stuttgart has made over 80 CDs and LPs, numerous of which have been awarded international recording prizes (including the Edison award, Diapason d’or, Gramophone Choice, Classical Internet Award, International Classical Music Award, and German Record Critics’ Award prizes). The International Federation for Choral Music has invited the ensemble to sing at the 1st, 4th and 10th World Symposia on Choral Music in Vienna, Sydney and Seoul. Regular tours of North America and Asia since 1988 and a South America tour reflect the Kammerchor Stuttgart’s international reputation. Since 1984 the top ensemble has also been invited to Israel biennially. Personal details
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Ensemble
Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is one of the world's leading orchestras, captivating audiences everywhere with its unique style of music-making. The Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi has been the orchestra's Artistic Director since 2004.
One of the many highlights of the collaboration with Paavo Järvi has been their Beethoven Project, on which conductor and orchestra concentrated for six years. Their Beethoven interpretations have been acclaimed worldwide by audiences and critics alike as benchmark performances. Following the Beethoven Project The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Paavo Järvi focused on Robert Schumann's symphonic works with equal success.
The latest project of the orchestra and its conductor is the German composer Johannes Brahms. The first CD (Sony/RCA) of the project – Symphony No. 2, Tragic Ouverture and the Academic Festi-val Ouverture – was released in autumn 2017 and received the Opus Klassik in October 2018. The second CD, including Symphony No. 1 and the Haydn-Variations, followed in autumn 2018. With the third and fourth Symphony, released in March 2019, the symphony cycle has come to completion.
Highlight of the project was the internationally acclaimed performance of ›A German Requiem‹ on the 10th of April 2018 at Bremen Cathedral, 150 years after the first performance. The recording has now been released on DVD and Blu-ray by C-Major. In October 2019, ›The Brahms Code‹ – an excit-ing TV/DVD documentary about the Brahms Project produced by Deutsche Welle/Unitel – was re-leased and is the current German Record Critics' Award winner in the category music film (listed 1/20).
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen has been honoured with countless prizes such as Echo, Opus and Diapason d'Or for its recordings and the unique education project with the Gesamtschule Bremen-Ost in Osterholz-Tenever, the Zukunftslabor. For years, the orchestra has cultivated close musical friendships with international soloists such as Christian Tetzlaff, Maria João Pires, Janine Jansen, Igor Levit, Hilary Hahn and Martin Grubinger.
The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is permanent guest orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Festival Orchestra of Kissinger Sommer. Personal details
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Conductor
Frieder Bernius
| 1947Frieder Bernius’s work has earned great worldwide recognition. He is in demand internationally as a conductor and as a teacher. His principal artistic collaborators are the ensembles he founded himself, the Kammerchor Stuttgart, the Barockorchester Stuttgart, the Hofkapelle Stuttgart and the Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart. As a guest conductor, he has collaborated repeatedly with, for example, the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and the Streicherakademie Bozen. Great stylistic versatility is Frieder Bernius’s hallmark. Whether he conducts vocal works by Monteverdi, Bach, Händel, Mozart, Beethoven, Fauré and Ligeti, stage music by Mendelssohn or symphonies by Haydn, Burgmüller and Schubert, his work always aims for a sound that is at once unmistakably personal and at the same time oriented towards the original period sound ideal. He devotes himself equally to the rediscovery of 18th century operas and to first performances of contemporary compositions. He is particularly interested in the musical history of southwestern Germany. Carus-Verlag has awarded Frieder Bernius a Golden CD for his complete recording of the sacred music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The award was presented to him during the German Choir Festival in Stuttgart 2016. The sale of over 250,000 recordings, which has been acclaimed with a number of awards, has made a not insignificant contribution to what today is the obvious presence of Mendelssohn's complete œuvre in the concert repertoire. Personal details
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Soloist - soprano
Maria Bernius
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Soloist - soprano
Andrea Lauren Brown
Whether Baroque or contemporary music, Lieder or opera, the soprano Andrea Lauren Brown is equally convincing through the brilliant lightness of her interpretations. She made her operatic debut at the age of seventeen in Libby Larsen’s A Wrinkle in Time. This was followed by studies at West Chester University, Pennsylvania, Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Winner of numerous prizes, in Europe she has given guest performances at the Theater an der Wien, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, at the Schwetzingen and Ludwigsburg Festivals, Spoleto Festival and Schumann Festival in Düsseldorf. Personal details
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Soloist - mezzo-soprano
Monica Groop
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Soloist - tenor
Werner Güra
Werner Güra studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum. He continued his vocal training with Kurt Widmer in Basle and Margreet Honig in Amsterdam. He has appeared as a guest singer in operas in Frankfurt, Basle, Dresden, Paris and Brussels, and has sung regularly at the Staatsoper in Berlin since 1999. As a concert and oratorio singer he frequently appears with leading orchestras and renowned conductors. He has made a number of tours to Japan. Werner Güra also has a reputation as a Lied interpreter, which is reflected in concerts for international promoters and in his numerous recordings, which have won prestigious awards like the “Diapason d’Or.” Personal details
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Soloist - bass
Michael Volle
Reviews
... beim Sopranduett "Denn in seiner Hand" fühlt man sich dem Himmel nah.
chrismon, 2/2009
Umso verdienstvoller ist es, dass Frieder Bemius sich der Kirchenwerke Mendelssohns ohne Ausnahme angenommen hat. Der Chor überzeugt mit weichen, biegsamen Registern, die charakteristisch und klangvoll ausgebaut sind. ... Bemius nutzt das breite Ausdrucksrepertoire der Werke voll aus, baut ebenso auf große wie auf sehr konzentrierte Klänge. So mancher kurze Psalmsatz gerät deshalb in seinem Effekt kaum kleiner als ein Abschnitt aus einem der großen Oratorien.
Matthias Lange, klassik.com, 25.02.2009
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