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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Oratorios (box with 4 CDs)

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Carus’s complete recording of Felix Mendelssohn’s sacred choral works with Frieder Bernius and the Kammerchor Stuttgart represents a magnificent act of interpretation and editing. This recording presents not only exemplary renditions of the oratorios Elijah and St. Paul, but also the remaining fragments of the oratorio Christus, which was left unfinished at the time of his death. Following the release of a box set with Mendelssohn’s smaller sacred choral works in 2012 (Carus 83.020), Carus now presents all of the oratorio recordings in a box set of 4 CDs.
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  • Coro "Herr, der du bist der Gott
  • Recitativo "Und sie steinigten ihn" e Choral "Dir, Herr, dir will ich mich ergeben"
  • Choral "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
  • Recitativo "Und Paulus kam zu der Gemeinde"
  • Coro "Seid uns gnädig, hohe Götter"
  • Recitativo "Und wenn er gleich geopfert wird"
  • Einleitung (Elias): So wahr der Herr, der Gott Israels, lebet
  • Rezitativ (Ein Engel): Elias, gehe weg von hinnen
  • Arioso (Alt): Weh ihnen, dass sie von mir weichen!
  • Arie (Elias): Es ist genug, so nimm nun, Herr, meine Seele
  • Chor: Der Herr ging vorüber
  • Quartett (SATB): Wohlan, alle, die ihr durstig seid
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  • Part I

    1. Overture

    2. Chorus

    Lord, thou alone art God,
    and thine are the heavens, the earth, and mighty waters.
    The heathen furiously rage, Lord,
    against thee and thy Christ.
    Now behold, lest our foes prevail,
    and grant to thy servants
    all strength and joyfulness,
    that they may preach thy word.
    Ac 4:24,26,29

    3. Chorale

    To God on high be thanks and praise,
    who deigns our bonds to sever,
    His cares our drooping souls upraise,
    and harm shall reach us never:
    On him we rest, with faith assur’d,
    of all that live the mighty Lord,
    for ever and for ever.
    Nikolaus Decius 1525

    4. Recitative and Duet

    Soprano
    And the many that believed were of one heart and of one soul, and Stephen full of faith and full of power, did great wonders among the people; and they of the Synagogue were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he spake. Then they suborned men who were false witnesses, which said:
    Ac 4:32; 6,8-11

    False witnesses (Basso I/II)
    We verily have heard him blaspheme against these holy places and against the law.
    Ac 6:11

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  • Erster Teil

    1. Ouvertüre

    2. Chor

    Herr, der du bist der Gott,
    der Himmel und Erde und das Meer gemacht hat.
    Die Heiden lehnen sich auf, Herr,
    wider dich und deinen Christ.
    Und nun, Herr, siehe an ihr Droh’n,
    und gib deinen Knechten
    mit aller Freudigkeit zu reden dein Wort.
    Apg 4,24.26.29

    3. Choral

    Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
    und Dank für seine Gnade,
    darum, dass nun und nimmermehr
    uns rühren kann kein Schade.
    Ganz unermess’n ist seine Macht,
    nur das geschieht, was er bedacht,
    wohl uns, wohl uns des Herren.
    Nikolaus Decius 1525

    4. Rezitativ und Duett

    Sopran
    Die Menge der Gläubigen war ein Herz und eine Seele.
    Stephanus aber, voll Glauben und Kräfte, tat Wunder vor dem Volk,
    und die Schriftgelehrten vermochten nicht zu widerstehn der Weisheit und dem Geist, aus welchem er redete, da richteten sie zu etliche Männer,
    die da sprachen:
    Apg 4,32; 6,8–11

    Falsche Zeugen (Bass I/II)
    Wir haben ihn gehört Lästerworte reden wider diese heilige Stätte und das Gesetz.
    Apg

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  • Text from the CD Carus 83.021

    R. Larry Todd

    It is probably no exaggeration to claim that St. Paul, based largely upon the Acts of the Apostles and recounting the conversion of Saul of Tarsus to the early Christian missionary Paul, was Mendelssohn’s most popular work during his lifetime. Composed between 1834 and 1836 and premiered in Düsseldorf on May 22, 1836 (Pentecost), the oratorio initially received acclaim rarely rivaled in the annals of music history. When Mendelssohn conducted it in England at the Birmingham Musical Festival of 1837, the work was favorably compared to the immortal oratorios of Handel. Numerous performances quickly followed in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Holland, Poland, Russia, and even the United States. In 1839, when Mendelssohn conducted St. Paul in Brunswick, H. F. Chorley averred “there is little modern music which gains so much with every subsequent hearing as that of the ‘St Paul.’” But further on in the century, distinctly negative impressions accrued. If Wagner, after hearing Mendelssohn conduct the oratorio on Palm Sunday in 1843, praised it as a classical masterwork, he later introduced into his writings a virulent racist strain and attacked Mendelssohn, a member of a prominent Jewish

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  • Booklet-Text der CD Carus 83.021

    R. Larry Todd Übersetzung: Helga Beste

    Die Behauptung, Paulus sei das zu Lebzeiten Mendelssohns beliebteste seiner Werke gewesen, ist sicher nicht übertrieben. Das Werk beruht im Wesentlichen auf der Apostelgeschichte und erzählt die Wandlung des Saulus von Tarsus zum frühchristlichen Missionar Paulus. Komponiert zwischen 1834 und 1836 und uraufgeführt am 22. Mai 1836 (Pfingsten) erfuhr dieses Oratorium eine Anerkennung, die in der Musikgeschichtsschreibung ihresgleichen sucht. Als Mendelssohn das Werk 1837 in England beim Birmingham Musical Festival dirigierte, zog man lobende Vergleiche zu den unsterblichen Oratorien Händels. Rasch folgten zahlreiche Aufführungen in Deutschland, der Schweiz, Dänemark, Holland, Polen, Russland und sogar den Vereinigten Staaten. Als Mendelssohn Paulus 1839 in Brunswick dirigierte, beteuerte H. F. Chorley: „there is little modern music which gains so much with every subsequent hearing as that of the ‘St. Paul’”. Im weiteren Verlauf des Jahrhunderts häufen sich jedoch ausgesprochen negative Urteile. Auch wenn Wagner das Werk nach einer von Mendelssohn am Palmsonntag 1843 dirigierten Aufführung zunächst als klassisches Meisterwerk pries, vertreten

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  • Part I

    Introduction

    Elijah (Basso)
    As God the Lord of Israel liveth,
    before whom I stand,
    here shall not be dew nor rain these years,
    but according to my word.

    Overture

    1. Chorus. The People

    Help, Lord! Help, Lord!
    Wilt thou quite destroy us?
    The harvest now is over, the summer days are gone,
    and yet no power cometh to help us!
    Will then the Lord be no more God in Zion?

    Recitative

    The deeps afford no water!
    And the rivers are exhausted!
    The suckling’s tongue now cleaveth for thirst to his mouth!
    The infant children ask for bread,
    and there is no one breaketh it to feed them!

    2. Duet with Chorus

    Lord, bow thine ear to our pray’r!

    Two Women
    Zion spreadeth her hands for aid, and there is neither help nor comfort.

    3. Recitative. Obadiah (Tenor)

    Ye people, rend your hearts, and not your garments,
    for your transgressions, even as Elijah hath sealed the heavens through the word of God.
    I therefore say to ye, forsake your idols, return to God;
    for he is slow to anger, and merciful, and kind, and gracious, and repenteth him of the evil.

    4. Aria.

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  • Erster Teil

    Einleitung

    Elias (Bass)
    So wahr der Herr, der Gott Israels, lebet,
    vor dem ich stehe:
    Es soll diese Jahre weder Tau noch Regen kommen,
    ich sage es denn.

    Ouvertüre

    1. Chor. Das Volk

    Hilf, Herr! Hilf, Herr!
    Willst du uns denn gar vertilgen?
    Die Ernte ist vergangen, der Sommer ist dahin,
    und uns ist keine Hilfe gekommen!
    Will denn der Herr nicht mehr Gott sein in Zion?

    Rezitativ

    Die Tiefe ist versieget!
    Und die Ströme sind vertrocknet!
    Dem Säugling klebt die Zunge am Gaumen vor Durst!
    Die jungen Kinder heischen Brot!
    Und da ist niemand, der es ihnen breche!

    2. Duett mit Chor. Das Volk

    Herr, höre unser Gebet!

    Zwei Frauen (Sopran, Alt)
    Zion streckt ihre Hände aus,
    und da ist niemand, der sie tröste.

    3. Rezitativ. Obadjah (Tenor)

    Zerreißet eure Herzen und nicht eure Kleider! Um unsrer Sünden willen hat Elias den Himmel verschlossen durch das Wort des Herrn! So bekehret euch zu dem Herrn, eurem Gott, denn er ist gnädig, barmherzig, geduldig und von großer Güte, und reut ihn bald der Strafe.

    4. Arie.

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  • Text from the CD Carus 83.021

    R. Larry Todd

    Few compositions document as compellingly as Elijah the shifting critical reception accorded Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy during the past one hundred and fifty years. At the English premiere, heard at the Birmingham Musical Festival in 1846, Elijah was hailed as an undisputed masterpiece; since then it has remained a staple of the oratorio repertory, rivaled in English-speaking realms only by Handel’s Messiah. But, like the swing of a pendulum, Mendelssohn’s reception precipitated a counterreaction. First, there was Richard Wagner’s anti-Semitic attack in the anonymously published „On Judaism in Music“ (1850). And in the closing decades of the century, there was George Bernard Shaw’s criticism of Mendelssohn’s “kid glove gentility.” In 1847, Prince Albert had lionized Mendelssohn as a prophetic artist-priest contending with false artistic idols; now, toward the end of the century, Shaw reversed

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  • Booklet-Text der CD Carus 83.021

    R. Larry Todd
    Übersetzung: Helga Beste

    Nur wenige Kompositionen dokumentieren den Wandel der kritischen Rezeption, die den Werken Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys in den vergangenen 150 Jahren unterlag, so beeindruckend wie Elias. Bei der englischen Uraufführung 1846 im Rahmen des Birmingham Musical Festival pries man das Oratorium uneingeschränkt als Meisterwerk. Es ist seitdem fester Bestandteil des Oratorienrepertoires und muss sich in der englischsprachigen Welt nur mit dem Messias vergleichen lassen. Doch wie beim Ausschlag eines Pendels löste die Mendelssohn-Rezeption eine Gegenbewegung aus. Am Anfang stand der antisemitische Angriff Richard Wagners in der anonym erschienenen Schrift „Über das Judentum in der Musik“ (1850). George Bernard Shaws Kritik an Mendelssohns „kid glove gentility” („Glacéhandschuh-Vornehmheit“) fällt in die letzten Jahrzehnte des Jahrhunderts. 1847 hatte Prinz Albert

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  • The birth of Christ

    1. Recitative (Soprano)

    When Jesus our Lord was born in Bethlehem, in the land of Judea, behold, from the east to the city of Jerusalem there came wise men, and said:

    2. Trio (Tenor, Basso I/II)

    Say, where is he born the king of Judea? For we have seen his star, and are come to adore him.

    3. Chorus

    There shall a star from Jacob come forth,
    and a sceptre from Israel rise up,
    and dash in pieces princes and nations.
    As bright the star of morning gleams,
    so Jesus sheddeth glorious beams
    of light and consolation!
    Thy Word, O Lord, radiance darting,
    truth imparting, gives salvation.
    Thine be praise and adoration!

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  • Die Geburt Christi

    1. Rezitativ (Sopran)

    Da Jesus geboren ward zu Bethlehem im jüdischen Lande, da kamen die Weisen vom Morgenlande gen Jerusalem und beteten ihn an.

    2. Terzett (Tenor, Bass I/II)

    Wo ist der neugeborne König der Juden? Wir haben seinen Stern gesehn und sind gekommen, ihn anzubeten.

    3. Chor

    Es wird ein Stern aus Jakob aufgehn
    und ein Szepter aus Israel kommen
    und wird zerschmettern Fürsten und Städte.
    Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern!
    O welch ein Glanz geht auf vom Herrn,
    uns Licht und Trost zu geben!
    Dein Wort, Jesu, ist die Klarheit,
    führt zur Wahrheit und zum Leben.
    Wer kann dich genug erheben?

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  • Foreword of the Edition Carus 40.131

    R. Larry Todd

    The oratorio Christus has remained among Mendelssohn’s most enigmatic works, raising innumerable questions since his death in November 1847 that have so far eluded answers in the scholar ly literature. Left unfinished, the project appeared in print in 1852 as Mendelssohn’s Op. 97, the twenty-sixth in a series of posthumous works. It included a trio for male soloists, several recitatives and choruses, and a setting of the chorale “Er nimmt auf seinen Rücken.” Understandably enough, the editors of the first edition divided these numbers into two parts: “The Birth of Christ” (Trio of the Wise Men and Chorus “Es wird ein Stern aus Jakob aufgeh’n”) and “The Passion of Christ” (alternating recitatives and choruses for the audience with Pilate and the procession to Golgatha, concluding with the chorus “Ihr Töchter Zions, weint über euch selbst,” and the chorale). But the ultimate position of the fragments in the oratorio remains unclear; indeed, Mendelssohn himself seems not to have specified a bipartite division (versus, say, a tripartite ordering, with a third section for the Resurrection), and, furthermore, does not appear to have used the title Christus for what

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  • Vorwort der Ausgabe Carus 40.131

    R. Larry Todd
    Übersetzung: Helga Beste

    Das Oratorium Christus ist und bleibt eines der rätselhaftesten Werke Mendelssohns, das seit dem Tod des Komponisten im November 1847 unzählige Fragen aufwirft, die die Forschungsliteratur bis heute nicht beantworten kann.

    Das unvollendete Werk erschien 1852 als Mendelssohns op. 97 erstmals im Druck. Es war die 26. Veröffentlichung in einer Reihe mit postumen Werken. Mendelssohn hinterließ unter anderem ein Terzett für drei Männerstimmen, mehrere Rezitative und Chöre und eine Vertonung des Chorals „Er nimmt auf seinen Rücken“. Die Herausgeber der ersten Ausgabe unterteilten diese Nummern verständlicherweise in zwei Teile: „Die Geburt Christi“ (Terzett der Weisen aus dem Morgenland) und Chor „Es wird ein Stern aus Jakob aufgehn“ und „Die Passion Christi“, bestehend aus Rezitativen und Chören im Wechsel für die Anhörung bei Pilatus und den Gang nach Golgatha, der mit dem Chor „Ihr Töchter Zions, weint über euch selbst“ schließt, sowie dem Choral. Doch die eigentliche Positionierung der Fragmente im Oratorium bleibt ungeklärt, Mendelssohn selbst scheint sich auch nicht auf eine Zweiteiligkeit festgelegt zu haben (im Gegensatz,

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  • 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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  • 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
  • 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
  • The Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart is comprised of musicians from leading German symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles who have been performing with Frieder Bernius over a long period. Although the orchestra uses modern instruments, the conductor and his players are particularly interested in stylistic distinctions. For performances of large-scale choral works, the Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart is the orchestral pendant to the Kammerchor Stuttgart. The orchestra has participated in a variety of events, including the Rheingau Music Festival, Stuttgart European Musikfest, Baden-Württemberg International Festival, Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Wroc³aw (Poland), the Kassel Music Festival, the Philharmonic Society of Brussels and the Herbstliche Musiktage Bad Urach. The idea of creating an orchestral partner of equal quality to the Kammerchor Stuttgart has been vindicated not least by their joint recording of Johannes Brahms’ A German Requiem. The French periodical Répertoire has confirmed Frieder Bernius’s vision of the work as a “discographic knockout.” Personal details
  • Frieder 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
  • Maria Cristina Kiehr wurde in Argentinien geboren und erhielt dort ihre erste musikalische Ausbildung. Ab 1983 studierte sie Gesang an der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis sowie bei Eva Krasznai-Gombos. Konzerte und Aufnahmen mit renommierten Künstlern und Ensembles führten sie nach Europa, Japan, USA, Südamerika und Australien. Neben verschiedenen Opernproduktionen mit Aufführungen u.a. von Monteverdi, Cavalli, Purcell, Gluck und Vivaldi sind die Forschung, Wiederentdeckung und Uraufführungen unbekannter Komponisten und Werke weitere Schwerpunkte ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit. Ihre zahlreichen Schallplatteneinspielungen erhielten Auszeichnungen wie den „Diapason d’Or“ und den “Grammophon Award”. Personal details
  • The Swiss soprano Letizia Scherrer was trained at the Feldkirch Conservatory and at the Conservatories in Zurich, Tel Aviv (T. Rachum), and Basel (Kurt Widmer). She has received awards at the eleventh Leipzig Bach Competition, from the Eliette von Karajan Cultural Fund (Karajan-Preis 2003) and elsewhere. In 1999 Letizia Scherrer made her debut at the Salzburg Festival under the direction of Jordi Savalli and in Carnegie Hall, New York, under Helmuth Rilling’s direction. Since then, this versatile soprano with an extensive repertoire ranging from Baroque to Modern has undertaken a busy schedule of concerts in many parts of Europe and North and South America, working with such conductors as Corboz, Creed, Herreweghe, Honeck, Korsten, Norrington, Rilling, Savall, Sawallisch, Venzago and Weigle. Personal details
  • Renée Morloc trained as a singer in Stuttgart and Salzburg. The contralto made her operatic debut as Erda in Siegfried at the Mannheim Nationaltheater. Her repertoire consists chiefly of Wagner, Richard Strauss and Verdi roles. She has made guest appearances in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Dresden, Tokyo, at many European opera houses, and in the USA. Her Salzburg Festival debut in 2007 was in the Breth production of Eugene Onegin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. She has also been involved in radio, television and film productions and CD recordings. Her concert career has focused on Mahler’s orchestral works with solo voice, in addition to an extensive oratorio repertoire. She has sung in Leonard Bernstein’s seldom-performed Jeremiah Symphony as well as in Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius and numerous contemporary works. Personal details
  • As one of the outstanding lyric tenors of today, Christoph Pregardien is highly regarded as a lieder singer. He specializes in lieder and oratorio and his repertoire encompasses all periods. Christoph Pregardien and his accompanist Michael Gees received the MIDEM Classical Award 2009 for their recording of Schubert’s “Die schone Mullerin”. Personal details
  • 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
  • Adolph Seidel studied singing with Peter Wetzler and Paul Lohmann. He specializes in music of the early and high Baroque. As well as bass roles in concert repertoire, he particularly enjoys ensemble singing. Reflecting this, since 1977 he has been a member of the Kammerchor Stuttgart, the sixteen soloists of the Kammerchor Stuttgart under Frieder Bernius and the KammerChor Saarbrücken, and has been the bass in the Orlando di Lasso-Ensemble for several years. As well as his work as a singer, he is director of the vocal ensemble VocArt, specializing in the performance of Baroque vocal music ranging from small-scale works for soloists to oratorio works. Personal details

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