Choral works for male voices
Between 1820 and 1847, Felix Mendelssohn composed a total of 38 songs for a cappella male voices.
Many of these were written for his own use at home or in the company of friends. He also liked to personally gift or dedicate these songs to others. This recording by the male voices of the SWR Vokalensemble under conductor Frieder Bernius affords the opportunity to enjoy these wonderful compositions that are among the least explored parts of Mendelssohn’s vast oeuvre.
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Composer
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
| 1809-1847
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Ensemble
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
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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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À la fois éditeur de partitions et label discographique, Carus nous propose les lieder en première mondiale sous la direction experte de Frieder Bernius, lequel parachève son intégrale de l'oeuvre chorale du compositeur. Ces lieder agissent comme un épitomé de la sensibilité romantique (profane). Versant élégiaque, voici une Sérénade, un Chant nocturne ou un Hymne à l'espérance; versant fantasque, voici une Querell de musiciens (explicites onomatopées) et, surtout, un chapelet d'airs à boire (ode à l'ivresse ou au vin du Rhin) et de chasse (où passe le souvenir de Weber). L'Ensemble vocal de la Radio de Stuttgart fait d'habiles sauts de puce d'une ambiance à l'autre sans toutefois se départir d'un certain sérieux (...). Comme si le chef avait tenu à tremper ce beau bouquet d'inédits dans l'eau d'un meme vase.
Classica, Oktober 2023
Classica, Oktober 2023
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