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Many renowned German-speaking singers – amongst others, Jonas Kaufmann, Angelika Kirchschlager and Christoph Prégardien – and ensembles have recorded their Christmas carol exclusively for the song project. The recordings are presented in two lavishly equipped CD boxes with elaborate illustrated booklets. All the singers, as well as their accompanists, made current recordings of their songs without remuneration. For every CD sold, 2 EUR can in turn be donated to projects which promote singing with children. With Jonas Kaufmann, Angelika Kirchschlager, Dorothee Mields, Franz-Josef Selig, Cornelius Hauptmann, Franz Vitzthum, Sarah Wegener, Kammerchor Stuttgart, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Calmus Ensemble etc
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  • Freu dich, Erd und Sternenzelt
  • Macht hoch die Tür (Adventlied)
  • Weihnachten
  • Wisst ihr noch, wie es geschehen
  • Wer klopfet an
  • Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann
  • Inmitten der Nacht
  • Lobt Gott, ihr Christen alle gleich
  • Ihr Kinderlein, kommet
  • Alle Jahre wieder
  • Leise rieselt der Schnee
  • Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
  • O du fröhliche
  • Noël: O Créateur
  • Noël: Où s'en vont ces guays bergers
  • Lieb Nachtigall, wach auf (Germany)
  • Zumba zum (Spain)
  • From heav'n on high
  • Morgen, Kinder, wird's was geben
  • Vom Himmel hoch, o Englein, kommt
  • Now come, the nation's Saviour
  • Maria durch ein Dornwald ging
  • Süßer die Glocken nie klingen
  • Fröhliche Weihnacht
  • Am Weihnachtsbaume die Lichter brennen
  • Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier
  • In dulci jubilo
  • Tochter Zion, freue dich
  • Joseph, lieber Joseph mein
  • O Jesulein zart
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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
  • Ever since the NDR Choir came into existence in 1946, it has been committed not only to the classical and romantic repertoire but also to contemporary music, which had been banned for a considerable period prior to the choir’s establishment. As a result, the preparation and performance of Schönberg’s unfinished opera Moses und Aron was the focus of worldwide attention in the post-war years. Especially under the direction of Helmut Franz, Max Thurn’s successor, a-cappella literature became a special trade- mark of the choir, a tradition maintained by subsequent conductors such as Roland Bader, Horst Neumann, Robin Gritton and Hans-Christoph Rademann. The choir has also enjoyed the stimulus of working with notable guest conductors such as Eric Ericson, Marcus Creed, Michael Gläser and Rupert Huber. Since the 2008/09 season, Philipp Ahmann has been choral director of the NDR Choir. Among the highpoints of recent years have been performances of Handel’s Israel in Egypt, the Ligeti Requiem and Schönberg’s Gurrelieder. Of the choir’s many CD recordings, the a-cappella works by Max Reger (dir. by H.-Chr. Rademann), which received the 2005 “Prize of the German Record Critics,” deserves special mention. Plans for the 2009/2010 season include Haydn’s The Creation under Martin Haselböck and a concert performance of Bizet’s opera Carmen as well as the choir’s own subscription series under the direction of Philipp Ahmann. Personal details
  • The Ensemble 94 was founded by Kay Johannsen in 1994 to participate in musical activities in the Stiftskirche (collegiate church) in Stuttgart, but since then it has also performed in many independent orchestral projects. Its members come from Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland, and they are widely experienced as soloists and in chamber music. An uncommon feature of the ensemble is the fact that the players have the ability to play either baroque or modern instruments, in accordance with the stylistic epoch of the music being performed. The concert master of the ensemble is Christine Busch, Professor of violin at the Stuttgart Conservatory. According to the Stuttgarter Nachrichten, this ensemble is characterized by “boundless zest for music making” as well as “subtile dynamic” and “joy in articulatory detail.” The Stuttgarter Zeitung stated “soloists performing with verve, elegance and stylistic sensitivity” and found that the group “need not shun comparison with the best Baroque orchestras.” The Württembergische Blätter für Kirchenmusik wrote about the Telemann-CD “In the accompaniment by Ensemble 94, founded by Johannsen in 1994, the singers were provided with an appropriate ensemble of exquisite articulation, at all times subservient to the vocal line, which left nothing to be desired.” Personal details
  • The Orpheus Vokalensemble was founded in 2005 as the professional chamber choir of the Landesmusikakademie Baden-Württemberg. This is an international ensemble which places the highest vocal demands on its members. Internationally recognized choral conductors are engaged for each assignment, and they exercise lasting influence on the artistic quality of the ensemble. Its model is the legendary Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (New York), whose name it shares. Its artistic aims, in the preparation and performance of works, are to bring the fundamentals of chamber music – personal commitment and mutual respect – to bear on the work of a vocal ensemble. Its members have the right to participate in the choice of repertoire, soloists, conductors and concert programs. Several composers have already written works for the Orpheus Vokalensemble, including Bo Hansson, Knut Nystedt, Gregor Hübner and Jürgen Essl. In 2006 the ensemble was invited to the International Lake Constance Festival. Other invitations to important festivals have followed. Personal details
  • The Ludwig Güttler Brass Ensemble from Dresden was formed by Ludwig Güttler in 1978. It combines solo players from the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra of Dresden) and the Dresden Philharmonia. Concert tours have taken the ensemble the length and breadth of Europe as well as to Asia. For years now, CD, radio and television productions have provided impressive evidence of the ensemble’s work. Ludwig Güttler has been especially praised for his ability to transfer the experience gained through playing chamber music and instrumental solos to the medium of the brass ensemble, and for achieving with this ensemble an extremely lively, flexible and finely nuanced music-making. Each of their programmes contains a series of hitherto unknown or rarely performed works which he has unearthed or prepared for the ensemble. In general the brass ensemble uses modern orchestral instruments of German design. Personal details
  • Homogenität, Präzision, Leichtigkeit und Witz – das sind die Markenzeichen von Calmus, heutzutage eine der erfolgreichsten Vokalgruppen Deutschlands. Das Ensemble besitzt eine Klangkultur, wie sie nur von wenigen erreicht wird. Die breite Palette an Klangfarben, die Musizierfreude, die die Musiker auf der Bühne vermitteln, aber auch ihre abwechslungs- und einfallsreichen Programme werden von der Presse immer wieder hervorgehoben. Die fünf Leipziger haben eine ganze Reihe internationaler Preise und Wettbewerbe gewonnen, u.a. den ECHO Klassik und den Supersonic Award, und der Radius ihrer Aktivitäten wird ständig größer und führt sie durch ganz Europa sowie Nord- und Südamerika. 2010 gab das Quintett sein Debüt in der New Yorker Carnegie Hall.

    Unermüdlich sind die Musiker bestrebt, neues Repertoire zu entdecken. Geprägt von der vielhundertjährigen Tradition großer deutscher Knabenchöre sind sie natürlich in der Vokalmusik der Renaissance, des Barock und der Romantik zu Hause. Musik unserer Zeit ist ihnen aber ebenfalls ein echtes Anliegen. In allen Sparten gibt es immer wieder interessante Partnerschaften mit Kollegen wie der Lautten Compagney Berlin, dem Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, der Hamburger Ratsmusik oder der Bigband des Hessischen Rundfunks. Da diese im Bereich der zeitgenössischen Musik häufig völlig neues Repertoire bedeuten, hat Calmus über die Jahre zahlreiche Kompositionsaufträge u. a. an Bernd Franke, Steffen Schleiermacher, Wolfram Buchenberg, Mathew Rosenblum, Bill Dobbins, Michael Denhoff und Harald Banter vergeben und Uraufführungen gesungen. Dass sie gerne Pop, Folk und Jazz sowie Chansons und Evergreens der zwanziger Jahre singen, das versteht sich von selbst!

    Ein Teil ihrer Zeit ist der Nachwuchsförderung gewidmet, denn Unterricht und Workshops gehören zu ihrem Alltag, zu Hause in Leipzig und unterwegs. Kein Wunder, dass Calmus mit der einzigartigen Besetzung aus Sopranistin, Countertenor, Tenor, Bariton und Bass überall auf der Welt immer mehr Fans hat. Personal details
  • The ensemble Hamburger Ratsmusik has had a long and close association with Johann Philipp Krieger. After all, his operas were performed by the original group during the composer’s lifetime at the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. Over a decade ago, the ensemble revived Krieger’s cantatas from the Bokemeyer Collection, performed them at Schloss Gottorf, and recorded them on CD. This exploratory work led to creative collaborations and friendships, as with the Krieger scholar Dr. Klaus-Jürgen Gundlach. The performance of the Musicalischer Seelen- Frieden in the place for which it was written, the Weissenfels Schlosskirche, was one of the highlights in this regard. However, the greatest surprise came from another Herr Krieger, who spoke to the Hamburger Ratsmusik musicians after a concert in Altdorf in Franconia, and then showed them his ancestors’ charter of nobility from Emperor Leopold. This CD, which the ensemble recorded with Doro thee Mields, forms part of this living tradition. In recording these concert her indescribable and committed singing, always guaranteed a thrilling experience. After 21 years of working together as an ensemble, 25 CDs – almost all world premiere recordings – numerous concerts, two Echo-Klassik awards and a growing enthusiasm for the music of the Renaissance, Baroque, and classical periods, Hamburger Ratsmusik is looking forward to more discoveries and projects. Personal details
  • Vokalmusik auf höchstem Niveau verspricht dieses energiegeladene Ensemble, das mit seinen kunstvollen Arrangements ungeahnte Klangwelten in der A-cappella-Szene hörbar macht. Elemente aus Jazz, Klassik, Pop und Weltmusik verschmelzen zu einem modernen, kraftvollen, zugleich sinnlichen Sound, der stets dem Authentischen nachspürt. Eigenständigkeit, hohe Virtuosität, ein homogener und gleichzeitig facettenreicher Klang brachte Niniwe seit 2002 internationale Anerkennung und zahlreiche Auszeichnungen. 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
  • 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 conductor Marcus Creed was born and grew up on the south coast of England. He began his studies at King’s College in Cambridge, where he had the opportunity to sing in the famous King’s College Choir. Further studies took him to Christ Church in Oxford and the Guildhall School in London. Marcus Creed moved to Berlin in 1977. Stations in his professional career have been the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Hochschule der Künste, as well as the Gruppe Neue Musik and the Scharoun Ensemble. From 1987 to 2001, Marcus Creed was artistic director of the RIAS-Kammerchor. In 1998, he accepted a professorship for conducting at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. Marcus Creed has been artistic director of the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart since 2003. His particular objective with this ensemble has been to make renewed performances of outstanding compositions from the recent past, including, for example, works by Luigi Nono, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm or Heinz Holliger. Marcus Creed is regularly invited to international festivals for both early music and new music and he regularly collaborates with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Freiburger Barockorchester and Concerto Köln. His CD releases have won international awards for their stylistically sure and acoustically sensitive interpretations. Among others, he has been awarded the German Record Critics’ Award, the Edison Award, the Diapason D’Or, the Cannes Classical Award, and the Echo Classic Prize. 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
  • German soprano Sibylla Rubens studied singing (concert and opera) both at the State University of Music in Trossingen and in Frankfurt/Main. The moving timbre of her voice, her natural charisma and the sensitive sense of perfection that she applies to her extensive repertoire make Sibylla Rubens a much sought-after artist in Germany and abroad. She performs regularly with such conductors as Frieder Bernius, Riccardo Chailly, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Philippe Herreweghe, Kent Nagano, Helmuth Rilling, or Christian Thielemann. Sibylla Rubens is known to be an exceptionell lied singer and is regularly invited to the European lied centres. More than 80 recordings are proof of her artistic achievements. She has passionately dedicated herself to promoting young singers both as a juror in international singing competitions and in regular master classes. Personal details
  • FThe former Regensburger Domspatz Franz Vitzthum received his vocal studies with Kai Wessel in Cologne. He regularly appears as a guest at international festivals and has worked together with such conductors as Nicolas McGegan, Hermann Max, Marcus Creed and Philippe Herreweghe. As a much sought-after chamber musician, he performs concerts together with the lutenist Julian Behr, the Capricornus Consort Basel and his vocal ensemble Stimmwerck. Personal details
  • Thomas Cooley, tenor, was born in Minnesota and studied voice at the university there, then at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich. He has participated in master classes in Aldeburgh, England, with Anthony Rolfe-Johnson and Ian Partridge, and has studied the art of Lieder singing with Peter Schreier and Rudolf Piernay. His operatic repertoire encompasses Mozart, Rossini, Handel and Monteverdi. He was a member of the company at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich from 2002–06. The major works by Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Britten are at the center of his repertoire, with a special emphasis on the Bach Evangelist roles and the great tenor parts in Handel. Important recent concert engagements included Bach’s St. Matthew Passion under Helmuth Rilling in Carnegie Hall, Haydn’s Nelson Mass under Welser-Möst, Britten’s War Requiem with the Munich Bach Chor, Edward Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius with the Sing-Akademie Berlin and Penderecki’s Credo, conducted by the composer. Thomas Cooley has also devoted himself to the art song, and he has made several recordings for Bayerischer Rundfunk, including Britten’s Holy Sonnets of John Donne and his Michelangelo Sonnets, Brahms Liebesliederwalzer and Schubert songs. Personal details
  • Der vielseitige Münchner Tenor Jonas Kaufmann sorgt mit Liederabenden und Opernauftritten regelmäßig für Beifallsstürme im Publikum. Er gastiert an den international bedeutenden Opernbühnen und verfolgt neben seinem Opernschaffen auch eine Karriere als Konzertsänger.

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  • The repertoire of mezzo-soprano Ruth Sandhoff ranges from early Baroque works to contemporary compositions. Lied singing is her especial passion, also in collaboration with the choreographer Sasha Waltz. Ruth Sandhoff has given concert tours in the USA, in Australia and in Europe. She has participated in numerous CD productions both in Germany and abroad. The recording of J. C. Bach’s “Missa da Requiem” with the RIAS Chamber Choir was awarded the German Record Critics’ Award. Personal details
  • Das Repertoire des Gitarristen Carsten Linck umfasst die Musik der frühen Renaissance bis zu Uraufführungen zeitgenössischer Kompositionen. Schwerpunkt seines künstlerischen Schaffens ist die Kammermusik, v. a. die Liedbegleitung. In Zusammenarbeit mit Sängern, Instrumentalisten und verschiedenen Ensembles gastierte er auf Konzertreisen in Europa und Asien. 1992 erhielt er den Kulturpreis der Stadt Essen. Personal details
  • Juliane Ruf studied in Mannheim and Saarbrucken with, among others, Irwin Gage. Early in her career she began specializing in lied presentation. She has won many competitions, including the “Wettbewerb für Liedkunst Stuttgart,” and in the meantime she concertizes regularly at festivals such as the “Klavierfestival Ruhr” or the “Heidelberger Frühling.” Personal details
  • Antal Váradi was born in 1975 in Debrecen (Hungary). He studied organ and church music in his homeland and furthered his studies in the class of Prof. Ludger Lohmann at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. He passed his performers’ examination with distinction and is a qualified A-diploma church musician and voice teacher. Váradi has been awarded a number of prizes at international organ competitions (e.g., Nürnberg, Freiberg, Schramberg, Coldrano, Zurich). He is the boys’ choir collegium iuvenum Stuttgart’s accompanist, organist of both the Holy Cross Church and St. Thomas’ Church in Stuttgart and organ expert for the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg. He is also a sought-after accompanist for various choirs. Váradi’s intense interest in adapting symphonic works to the organ gave rise to the following arrangements: The Night on the Bare Mountain by Mussorgski, Harmonies du soir and Dance Macabre by Liszt and The Vltava by Smetana. He is active as a concert soloist both in Germany and abroad. Personal details

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[…] ein wahrer Schatz für die nächste Generation, die mit vielen der schönen alten Lieder nicht mehr selbstverständlich aufwächst. Hier rühren sie in facettenreich farbigen Chorsätzen oder intimer Interpretation an, mal mit Klavier, mal mit Orgel begleitet oder von Violine, Flöte, Oboe umspielt.
St. Galler Tagblatt, 19. Dezember 2012

So schlicht ihr Titel, so gediegen zurückgenommen werden die großen alten „Weihnachtslieder“ (Carus) auf dieser wohl edelsten Neuproduktion gesungen. Jonas Kaufmann ist dabei, Christoph Pregardien, die großartige Dorothee Mields und führende deutsche Chöre. Das Ergebnis ist eine absolut kitschfreie Plattenzone, ohne Jingle Bells und Dioden-Nikolaus. Etwas für die wirklich stille Nacht!
Georg Howahl, Lars von der Gönna, Monika Idems und Arnold Hohmann, WAZ CD-Tipps, www.derwesten.de, 7. Dezember 2012

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