Heinichen: Missa No. 9 / Zelenka: Te Deum
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Preface writer
Katrin Bemmann
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Choir
Dresdner Kammerchor
DRESDNER KAMMERCHOR Radiant, transparent, homogeneous and flexible: the Dresdner Kammerchor is internationally esteemed for its unique culture of sonority. Its artistic director Hans-Christoph Rademann has shaped this distinctive sound since the choir was founded in 1985, leading it to worldwide renown. The choir’s diverse repertoire has its foundation in Baroque music, with a special focus on Saxon court music. As a cultural ambassador for Dresden and Saxony, the choir keeps the musical heritage of its homeland alive and makes it known to an international audience. A prominent example of this is the world’s first complete Heinrich Schütz recording, which was concluded in 2019, published by Carus-Verlag, and has won several awards: among others, the St. John Passion was awarded the Annual Prize of the German Record Critics in 2016, and the last installment of the edition containing “Psalms and Peace Music” was honored with the Opus Klassik 2020. The choir has also rediscovered, performed anew and recorded on CD numerous works by other Central German masters such as Johann Adolf Hasse, Johann David Heinichen and Jan Dismas Zelenka in collaboration with the Dresden Baroque Orchestra and other musical partners. In addition to symphonic choral works from the Classical and Romantic periods, a further repertoire focus is on challenging a cappella works of the 19th and 20th centuries. This includes music by Johannes Brahms, Max Reger, Olivier Messiaen, Francis Poulenc, Arnold Schoenberg and Herman Berlinski. For years, the Dresdner Kammerchor has been intensively dedicated to modern and contemporary music, with world premieres, first performances and its own commissioned works. This commitment is deepened further by diverse music education and youth projects. In 2009, Hans-Christoph Rademann and the Dresdner Kammerchor initiated the Dresden Choral Workshop for New Music, which took place for the 4th time in 2018. For its services to contemporary choral music, the choir was awarded a Sponsorship Prize by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation. The Dresdner Kammerchor gives guest performances in centers of music and at festivals throughout Europe. Tours have taken the singers to Israel, India, Taiwan, China, Mexico, South America, South Africa and the USA. Musical partners to date have included René Jacobs, Sir Roger Norrington, Ádám Fischer, Václav Luks, Stefan Parkman, Trevor Pinnock, Christoph Prégardien, Jos van Immerseel, Herbert Blomstedt, Omer Meir Wellber, Christian Thielemann, Riccardo Chailly and Reinhard Goebel, as well as the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Anima Eterna Brugge, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. The choir regularly collaborates with the Wroc"naw Baroque Orchestra. By means of a cooperation with the Dresden University of Music, the Dresdner Kammerchor keeps the connection to its roots alive. Personal details
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Orchestra
Dresdner Barockorchester
One of the distinguishing features of the Dresdner Barockorchester, founded in 1991, is the fact that its membership includes both early music specialists and orchestral musicians drawn from the Dresdner Staatskapelle and the Dresdner Philharmonie. Working together with baroque instruments, with their specific clarity of sound and articulation they achieve a variegated, eloquent music-making in which their different areas of musical experience are combined. The musicians are united in their desire to follow the splendid example set by the Dresden Court Orchestra of Augustus the Strong. The heritage of that era is the music of such conductors and instrumentalists of the Court Orchestra as Hasse, Heinichen, Zelenka, Quantz and Pisendel, whose works have a prominent place in the repertoire of the Dresdner Barockorchester. This repertoire extends from the end of the 17th century through Mozart. The Dresdner Barockorchester works closely with the Dresdner Kammerchor and its conductor Hans- Christoph Rademann. Personal details
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Conductor
Hans-Christoph Rademann
| 1965Conductor Hans-Christoph Rademann is an immensely versatile artist with a broad repertoire who devotes himself with equal passion and expertise both to the performance and rediscovery of early music and to the first performances and cultivation of Contemporary Music. Born in Dresden and raised in the Erzgebirge mountains, he was influenced at an early age by the great Central German kantorial and musical tradition. He was a student at the traditional Kreuzgymnasium, a member of the famous Kreuzchor, and studied choral and orchestral conducting at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden. During his studies, he founded the Dresdner Kammerchor and formed it into a top international choir which is still under his direction today. Since 2013, Hans-Christoph Rademann has been the academy director of the International Bach Academy Stuttgart. He regularly collaborates with leading choirs and ensembles of the international music scene. From 1999 to 2004 he was chief conductor of the NDR Choir and from 2007 to 2015 chief conductor of the RIAS Chamber Choir. Guest conducting engagements have led and continue to lead him to the Nederlandse Bachvereniging, the Collegium Vocale Gent, the Akademie für Alte Musik, the Freiburger Barockorchester, the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, among others. Hans-Christoph Rademann has been awarded prizes and honors for his artistic work, including the Johann Walter Plaque of the Saxon Music Council (2014), the Saxon Constitutional Medal (2008), the Sponsorship Prize as well as the Art Prize of the state capital Dresden (1994 and 2014 respectively). He received the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik several times for his numerous CD recordings (most recently in 2016), as well as the Grand Prix du Disque (2002), the Diapason d’Or (2006 & 2011), the CHOC de l’année 2011 and the Best Baroque Vocal Award 2014. In 2016 he was awarded the European Church Music Prize of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd. His exemplary interpretation and recording of the complete works of Heinrich Schütz with the Dresdner Kammerchor in the Stuttgart Carus-Verlag, which was completed in 2019, was awarded the newly endowed Heinrich Schütz Prize as well as the OPUS KLASSIK 2020 in the same year. Hans-Christoph Rademann is professor of choral conducting at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden. He is also artistic director of the Musikfest Erzgebirge, ambassador of the Erzgebirge and patron of the Christian Hospice Service Dresden. Personal details
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Soloist - soprano
Heike Hallaschka
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Soloist - soprano
Martina Lins-Reuber
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Soloist - alto
Patrick Van Goethem
The Belgian countertenor Patrick Van Goethem studied under Paul Esswood, Julia Hamari and Andreas Scholl. He specializes in early music, with a repertoire that includes vocal works by Heinichen, Monteverdi, Purcell and Zelenka, Bach’s Passions, cantatas and the B-minor Mass, Handel’s Oratorio’s and Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater. His concert schedule has taken him to Europe, North America and Japan. He has appeared with, among others, the Bach Collegium Japan (Masaaki Suzuki), The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (Ton Koopman), Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century (Frans Brüggen), The Netherlands Bach Society (Gustav Leonhardt and Jos van Veldhoven), Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (Helmuth Rilling), Barockorchester Stuttgart (Frieder Bernius), and the Gulbenkian Orchestra (Michel Corboz). Patrick Van Goethem appears at major baroque festivals. and he performs regularly with the baroque ensemble The Flanders Baroque Consort, of which he is a founding member. Personal details
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Soloist - tenor
Marcus Ullmann
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Soloist - bass
Jochen Kupfer
Reviews
Jan Dismas Zelenka: Te Deum ZWV 146
Jan Dismas Zelenka: Te Deum ZWV 146. Johann David Heinichen: Missa Nr. 9 D-Dur
Zurecht spielen die Kompositionen Zelenkas, des „katholischen Pendants” von Johann Sebastian Bach in den Programmen heutiger Tage eine immer größere Rolle. Beispiel hierfür kann dieses wunderschöne Te Deum sein, das in seiner Vielgestaltigkeit und Breite an Ausdruck einen großen formalen Bogen atmet. Nicht zuletzt verantwortlich für diesen Eindruck ist freilich die hervorragende Interpretation der oben genannten Ausführenden unter H.-C. Rademann. die auch die wenig bekannte Messe von Heimchen lebendig zu gestalten wissen. Frische und Differenziertheit bei technisch einwandfreier Leistung [ ] aller Beteiligten zeichnen diese Aufnahme aus. Hörens- und aufführungswert!
Quelle: Musica Sacra 6/2000, S. 44
Heinichen/Zelenka: Missa 9; Te Deum
„Heinichens Messe verwendet insbesondere die Fähigkeiten der Blechbläser für eine festliche Klangpracht. Ein vierstimmiger Trompetenchor in Verbindung mit einer doppelchörigen Gesamtanlage verleihen Zelenkas Te Deum das festliche Gepräge. Hans-Christoph Rademann führt Chor, Orchester und Solisten gleichermaßen zu Höchstleistungen. Kann wärmstens empfohlen werden.”
Quelle: Fono Forum 9/00
Heinichen / Zelenka: Missa et Te Deum
It’s easy to see--and hear--why Bach admired the music of Jan Zelenka. How can anyone resist? If you’re wondering what I’m talking about (Zelenka’s music has received inexplicably meager attention until fairly recently), just get this disc and go right to track 10. This concluding section of the Te Deum is as inventive and downright exciting as baroque music gets--infectious, dancing rhythms, soaring soprano lines, ingeniously interwoven contrapuntal lines that seem to bounce off each other, and full-bodied orchestral accompaniment--all of which makes its impact in the space of two minutes. But this is the sort of compelling music that characterizes the work’s entire 28 minutes, varied with an alto solo, duets for two sopranos and for tenor and bass, and full sections for chorus. From the very Bach-like orchestral introduction to the above-mentioned rousing conclusion, this remarkable piece should take a place among the 18th century’s standard repertoire--next to Bach’s own quick-paced, tightly-knit flash of genius, the Magnificat.
In a different vein, Johann Heinichen’s Mass No. 9 in D flows every bit as freely and beautifully and with its own complete command of style and structure. It’s a magnificent, majestic work with powerful, elegantly built choruses and fine solos. The fugal writing is especially notable. And so are the world-class performances by choir and orchestra, whose enthusiasm for this music comes through in every bar. Such dynamic, musically affecting, and technically sound singing and playing doesn’t come easily, and conductor Hans-Christoph Rademann also deserves credit for the commendable results. Particular mention must go to tenor Marcus Ullmann’s rendition of Heinichen’s Qui tollis, a lovely, surprising little gem reminiscent of and equal to Handel’s better efforts.
David Vernier
Quelle: Classics today
Die drei obengenannten Komponisten sind alle in Dresden wirksam gewesen. Aber der Unterschied zwischen beiden Aufnahmen ist riesengroß. Die erste widerspiegelt die brillante Musikkultur am Dresdner Hof. Die Qualitäten des Hoforchesters werden in den Kompositionen von Heinichen und Zelenka voll ausgenutzt. Vor allem von den Bläsern, insbesondere den Trompetern, wird vieles abverlangt. Wir haben es hier mit zwei festlichen Kompositionen zu tun. Das Te Deum von Zelenka ist wahrscheinlich aus Anlass der Geburt der Prinzessin Maria Josepha im November 1731 entstanden. Der festliche Charakter wird von der Doppelchörigkeit und der Besetzung mit einem vierstimmigen Trompetenchor unterstrichen. Heinichens Messe ist wahrscheinlich für das Weihnachtsfest komponiert worden. In dieser Messe gibt es mehrere Solo-Arien, die sich durch eine originelle Instrumentation auszeichnen. Die Darbietung von Solisten, Chor und Orchester ist erstklassig. Sowohl die Virtuosität als auch die Intimität mehrerer Solopassagen kommt gut zur Geltung. Der Dirigent Philippe Herreweghe hat mal gesagt, er möchte keine Zeit mit der Musik Zelenkas verschwenden. Vor allem ihm sei diese Aufnahme ans Herz gelegt.
Quelle: TOCCATA- 19/2005