Frauenkirche Dresden. Vom Himmel hoch. Weihnachtliche Musik von Johann Sebastian Bach
Festive triad: Bach – Frauenkirche – Dresden. One could scarely imagine a more festive triad for the Christmas season. As the third in the CD series “Music from the Dresden Frauenkirche” Carus has produced a Christmas concert of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded in the Dresden Frauenkirche. Along with Christmas chorales and organ preludes by Bach there are also traditional Christmas songs.
The Frauenkirche Chamber Choir is accompanied by an instrumental ensemble of players drawn from the Dresden Staatskapelle. The Frauenkirche cantor Matthias Grünert plays the new Kern organ, and he is the artistic director of this recording.
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- Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
- Tochter Zion, freue dich
- Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich
- Der Morgenstern ist aufgedrungen
- Joseph, lieber Joseph mein
- In dulci jubilo
- I stand beside thy cradle here
- Pastorella in F: 1. Satz
- Pastorella in F: 2. Satz
- Pastorella in F. 3. Satz
- Pastorella in F: 4. Satz
- Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
- Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
- Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
- Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
- Praise God, ye Christians, sing amen
- Lobt Gott, ihr Christen
- Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich
- Gelobet seist du, Jesus Christ
- Gelobet seist du, Jesus Christ
- From heav'n above to earth I come
- Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her
- Das alte Jahr vergangen ist
- Das alte Jahr vergangen ist
- Präludium und Fuge in C: Präludium
- Präludium und Fuge in C: Fuge
Practise
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Pronouncing Aid
- Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
- Tochter Zion, freue dich
Contents
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Preface writer
Herbert Lölkes
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Ensemble
Kammerchor der Frauenkirche
The Kammerchor der Frauenkirche was founded by Matthias Grünert, choirmaster of the Frauenkirche, in January 2005. The choir’s main activities include providing the music for services and singing in concerts and other events at the church. The choir is also an ambassador for the Frauenkirche’s church music and gives concerts in Germany and abroad (France, Italy and Japan). Its debut recording was the CD “Vom Himmel hoch” for Carus (Carus 83.233). The thirty semi-professional singers specialize in a cappella repertoire and 17th and 18th century oratorios. Personal details
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Ensemble
ensemble frauenkirche
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Conductor
Matthias Grünert
| 1973Matthias Grünert was born in Nuremberg in 1973. He took an advanced course in church music and majored in organ performance in Bayreuth and at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, studying with Hartmut Rohmeyer and others. He also attended courses with F. Tagliavini, J. Laukvik, M. Radulescu and others. While studying, he was an assistant at Lübeck Cathedral and worked as a church musician at St. Petri in the health resort of Bosau (Schleswig-Holstein). From 2000–05 he was city and district choirmaster at St. Marien in Greiz, and in 2003 performed the complete organ works of Bach. In 2004 Matthias Grünert was appointed principal choirmaster at the Frauenkirche in Dresden, and since 2005 has been artistic director with responsibility for all church music events there. He has founded a large choir of 120 singers, the Kammerchor der Frauenkirche and the ensemble frauenkirche, comprising musicians from the Sächsische Staatskapelle and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. He has won prizes in several organ competitions, given concerts as an organist, conductor and keyboard player in Germany and abroad, and made many CD, television and radio recordings. Personal details
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Soloist - organ
Matthias Grünert
| 1973Matthias Grünert was born in Nuremberg in 1973. He took an advanced course in church music and majored in organ performance in Bayreuth and at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, studying with Hartmut Rohmeyer and others. He also attended courses with F. Tagliavini, J. Laukvik, M. Radulescu and others. While studying, he was an assistant at Lübeck Cathedral and worked as a church musician at St. Petri in the health resort of Bosau (Schleswig-Holstein). From 2000–05 he was city and district choirmaster at St. Marien in Greiz, and in 2003 performed the complete organ works of Bach. In 2004 Matthias Grünert was appointed principal choirmaster at the Frauenkirche in Dresden, and since 2005 has been artistic director with responsibility for all church music events there. He has founded a large choir of 120 singers, the Kammerchor der Frauenkirche and the ensemble frauenkirche, comprising musicians from the Sächsische Staatskapelle and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. He has won prizes in several organ competitions, given concerts as an organist, conductor and keyboard player in Germany and abroad, and made many CD, television and radio recordings. Personal details
Reviews
[...] Der 2005 gegründete Kammerchor der Frauenkirche zeigt sich leistungsfähig. Unter der Leitung von Hauskantor Matthias Grünert interpretiert er die Vokalbeiträge subtil und mit eher sanftem Zugriff. Was dem Gegenstand durchaus nützt. Auch an der Orgel ist Grünert fit, wobei er frische Tempi favorisiert (Beispiel: Präludium und Fuge C-Dur). Nicht nur in ihrer Transparenz vorzüglich klingt auch diesmal die neue, in Straßburg gebaute Kern-Orgel. Eine wunderschöne Weihnachts-CD. Und völlig kitschfrei.
Johannes Adam
Quelle: Badische Zeitung, 16.12.2006, S. 15
[...] Matthias Grünert an der Orgel und sein Chor entfalten rund eine Stunde lang im weichen, reichen Hall des Hauses jene füllige Pracht, die Freunde inbrünstiger Kirchenmusik so lieben. [...] Fazit: Vom Himmel hoch würde Bach, der selbst einst hier spielte, seinen Segen geben.
J.U. Sommerschuh
Quelle: Sächsische Zeitung 6.12.06
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