Heinrich Schütz: Kleine geistliche Konzerte II. Complete recording, Vol. 17 - CD, Choir Coach, multimedia | Carus-Verlag

Heinrich Schütz Kleine geistliche Konzerte II. Complete recording, Vol. 17

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Heinrich Schütz’s compositions were hugely influenced by the horrors of the Thirty Years’ War. He continually assimilated his anxious and painful experiences into his works, but in the process created an optimistic, peaceful view of the future. His Kleine geistliche Konzerte II are also a highly sensitive response to the social conditions of the time. A CD recording of these works is now being released as part of the Schütz Complete Recording. This is one of the last recordings with the harpsichordist, organist, and conductor Ludger Rémy, who died in 2017 after a long illness. Hans-Christoph Rademann pays tribute to his long-time colleague in a personal foreword.
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  • I will praise god the Lord at ev'ry time
  • Come now, holy Spirit
  • Habe deine Lust an dem Herren
  • Drop down now, heavens
  • The annunciation
  • Joseph, du Sohn David
  • God's own being was made flesh
  • On this day Jesus Christ is born
  • To God on high alone be praised
  • Ich liege und schlafe
  • Master, though laboring all the night
  • Bone Jesu, verbum Patris
  • Wann unsre Augen schlafen ein
  • With God for us
  • Was hast du verwirket
  • O Jesu, nomen dulce
  • Aufer immensam, Deus, aufer iram
  • O be joyful in the Lord
  • I bow and bend the knee unto the father
  • Fear of the Lord God is the source of wisdom
  • God's voice of thunder sounds upon the water
  • Quemadmodum desiderat cervus
  • Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ
  • What has browed you down, o my spirit
  • Lord, my trust is in thee
  • Lord, if I have thee only
  • Who then can part us from the love God gives us
  • O misericordissime Jesu
  • I have been a young man and now am aged
  • The soul of Christ now sanctify me
  • I am resurrection and new being
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  • Heinrich Schütz is regarded as the first German musician of European stature. As a choirboy from 1599 at the court of Landgrave Moritz of Hessen-Kassel, he received a thorough education. In 1608 he began a law degree in Marburg, but broke this off in 1609 in order, with the support of the Landgrave, to study composition with Giovanni Gabrieli, organist at St Mark’s in Venice. In 1613 Schütz returned to Kassel, but two years later was enticed away by Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony to the Dresden court as “Organist und Director der Musica”, where he held the position of Hofkapellmeister (court Kapellmeister) from 1617 until his death. Schütz’s great cycles of vocal works marked the high point of his reputation in Germany and northern Europe. But these represent only part of Schütz’s output; individual works are represented in printed collections with works by other composers, others only survive in manuscript, and much has been lost. The Stuttgart Schütz Edition makes available Schütz’s complete oeuvre, and all works are also published in practical Urtext editions. Personal details
  • Conductor 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
  • The blind soprano Gerlinde Sämann studied piano and singing at the Richard Strauss Conservatoire in Munich, working with teachers including Karl- Heinz Jarius, Henriette Meyer-Ravenstein and Selma Aykan. Her repertoire ranges from historic works, via lieder and oratorio, to avant-garde and contemporary music theatre works. Since 1991 Gerlinde Samann has performed as a soloist with a wide range of ensembles, mainly specializing in early music, at leading festivals. These include the Dresdner Kreuzchor, Accentus Chamber Choir, Arsys Bourgogne, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, and La Petite Bande. She also enjoys a busy career in opera and contemporary music theatre, working with directors such as Arila Siegert, Gil Mehmert, Sabine Hasz, Thomas Hoft, Crescentia Dunser, and Otto Kukla. She has made numerous radio recordings and CDs in Germany and abroad. Gerlinde Samann is passionately committed to devising programs of unusual songs and duos, performing these with musicians such as the renowned fortepianist Ronald Brautigam. Personal details
  • The mezzo-soprano Maria Stosiek was born in Gorlitz in 1988. In Dresden she studied voice under Christiane Junghanns and violin with Annette Under and was a stipendiary of the Dresden Talentschmiede. Master classes under, among others, Charlotte Lehmann and Dorothee Mields brought her important musical impulses. Today she sings in the MDR choir (Middle German Radio Choir) as well as in the Dresdner Kammerchor, where she regularly sings solo parts. Moreover, she works as a soloist together with both the Singakademie Dresden and the Vokalensemble Kassel. Concert tours have taken her to other European countries, to Israel and Palestine, as well as to Taiwan and China. In addtion to ensemble singing and concert singing Maria Stosiek has devoted herself increasingly to contemporary music. Personal details
  • As a scholarship recipient of the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung Munich, David Erler studied voice in Leipzig with Marek Rzepka. The sought-after soloist throughout Europe works with Peter Van Heyghen, Jos van Immerseel, Wolfgang Katschner, Hermann Max, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Ludger Remy, and Roland Wilson as well as ensembles such as Collegium Marianum Prag, Ensemble Inegal, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam, Lautten Compagney Berlin, Les Muffatti Brussel, and Weser- Renaissance Bremen. He is also in great demand as a guest singer in vocal ensembles such as the ensemble amarcord, the Calmus Ensemble, Singer Pur and Stimmwerck. More than 50 CD productions, as well as engagements at prestigious festivals (including the Bachfest Leipzig, Handelfestspiele Halle, Resonanzen Wien, Musica Antiqua Brugge) are further evidence of his artistic work. He is also the editor of the Cantatas by Johann Kuhnau, at Pfefferkorn Musikverlag in Leipzig. Personal details
  • Tenor Tobias Mäthger studied singing, conducting and school music in Dresden and works as a freelance singer, conductor, teacher and church musician. He has already achieved considerable success with a varied concert career both nationally and internationally. He is a member and soloist with the Dresdner Kammerchor, as well as a member of the soloists’ ensemble of the Musik Podium Stuttgart under Frieder Bernius. In addition, he regularly works with leading artists and ensembles including Marc Minkowski, Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, Dresden Staatskapelle, the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Bremer Kammerphilharmonie, Dresdner Kreuzchor, Rheinische Kantorei and many others, as a soloist or as a conductor’s assistant. Personal details
  • Tobias Berndt began his musical education in the Dresden Kreuzchor. He studied with Christian Polster in Leipzig and continued his training with Rudolf Piernay in Mannheim. He also studied with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Thomas Quasthoff. He was a laureate in numerous renowned singing competitions, winning – among others – the International Das Lied Competition in Berlin, the International Brahms Competition and the Cantilena Singing Competition. Tobias Berndt has also established himself abroad as an opera and concert singer. He has collaborated with conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe, Helmuth Rilling, Frieder Bernius, Teodor Currentzis, Marcus Creed, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Andrea Marcon, Marek Janowski and Sir Roger Norrington and has performed at the Berliner Philharmonie, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires and at Lincoln Center in New York. He has also performed at important festivals such as the Prague Spring, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Händel Festivals in Göttingen und Halle, the Bachfest Leipzig, the Oregon Bach Festival and the International Music Festival in Peking. An extensive discography attests to his versatile artistic activities. Personal details
  • Ratio, Emotio, Physis – reason, emotion and physics – to be able to bring these three human aspects together in singing, that is the great challenge and the profound joy in Felix Schwandtke’s life. Being the son of a mathematician and an engineer, he has been shaped by analytical thinking; music provided a way for him to relate this to emotion, and to explore, with joy, the developing interaction. In the process, early music became an important catalyst, and his creative work lead him to renowned ensembles all across Europe, bringing with it many new musical encounters. Among these, the ones who have made the most impact are Hans-Christph Rademann, Ludger Rémy and Lars Ulrik Mortensen, as well as the director and Baroque dancer Milo Pablo Momm. Personal details
  • The harpsichordist/pianist and conductor Ludger Rémy († June 2017) felt an obligation to meet the challenge set by the theorist Mattheson to combine theory and practice. He studied school music and harpsichord in Freiburg, followed by private studies with Kenneth Gilbert in Paris. In 1998 he was appointed to a professorship for early music in Dresden. Around 70 CD productions – several have been awarded prestigious prizes – both as instrumentalist and conductor, as well as numerous concerts at home and abroad (at festivals incl. Utrecht, Brügge, Paris, Saintes, Bachfest Leipzig, Händel­festspiele Göttingen, Musikfestspiele Dres­den) made him one of the leading musicians active in the rediscovery and revival of early German music. Personal details
  • Stefan Maass studied classical guitar and lute, specializing in music of the 17th and 18th centuries, both as a soloist and as a continuo player. He is Lord of Batzdorf Castle near Meißen and co-founder of the Batzdorf Hofkapelle. He regularly performs in the opera houses of Halle and Karlsruhe, the Semper Opera Dresden and the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. His numerous CD productions include collaborations with the Dresdner Kammerchor conducted by Hans-Christoph Rademann and the Capella Sagittariana, the Dresdner Staatskapelle, Thomas Quasthoff, Daniel Hope and the contralto Britta Schwarz, as well as with the actors Corinna Harfouch and Michael Quast. Stefan Maass was awarded the prestigious Arras Prize for Art and Culture in Dresden in March 2000. Personal details
  • Matthias Müller works as a freelance musician in Freiburg im Breisgau. Since completing his studies he has pursued a busy international concert career, including performing on numerous CDs. The range of instruments he plays encompasses all of the gamba family, including various types of violone, and the lyra da gamba. Since 2000 he has been a permanent member of the ensemble Cantus Cölln, and also works together with various other leading ensembles and conductors. Personal details

Reviews

Schütz Kleine geistliche Konzerte II

... Obgleich „klein”, sind die Konzerte doch voller Sprachkraft und strahlender musikalischer Vielfalt ...
Aus der insgesamt wunderbaren und vielseitig gefärbten Aufnahme ein einziges Stück hervorzuheben, das als Höhepunkt zu bezeichnen wäre, wäre angesichts der komplett unbeschreiblich hohen musikalischen Qualität der Einspielungen ein verfehlter Zugang.
Monika Fahrnberger, singende kirche, 3/2019

... As with the previous recording, the results are gorgeous. The quality is so consistently high that it seems pointless to single out individual concertos and singers.
American Record Guide, Juli/August 2018

... Ein Hörerlebnis für zwei Stunden ... Die eingespielten Werke von Schütz ... wurden mit großer Präzision, herausragender Dynamik und in perfekter Abstimmung zwischen SängerInnen und Instrumentalisten umgesetzt.
Musica Sacra, 6/2018

... Little Masterpieces ... The selections are beautifully sung. There's a quiet intimacy to these works that Ludger Rémy and his musicians successfully capture.
Ralph Graves, wtju.net, 25.06.2018

...ein wunderbar eingesungenes Ensemble. Das Ergebnis ist ein hochidiomatischer Schütz-Gesang ohne Schwächen, im fortwährenden Wechsel von individueller Präsenz und echter Ensemblegeste.
Dr. Matthias Lange, klassik.com, 03.05.2018

... Eine große klangliche Wärme erzeugen der Kammerchor und die Hofkapelle Stuttgart mit Frieder Bernius am Pult. ... Ein echter Hörgenuss.
WDR 3 Tonart, 23.02.2018

... Auch ohne Andacht kann man mit den exzellent gespielten Konzerten etwas Ruhe in die Fastenzeit bringen.
Tiroler Tageszeitung, 19.02.2018

... Die Solostimmen sind von bezaubernder Reinheit, die emotionalen Botschaften auch verbal gut zu vestehen.
Jens-Uwe Sommerschuh, Sächsische Zeitung Dresden, 06.02.2018

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