Bläsermusik zur Weihnachtszeit (Güttler)
The Brass Ensemble of Ludwig Güttler played a pivotal role during all the important solemn occasions which occurred during the reconstruction of the Dresden Frauenkirche, especially during the annual Christmas Vespers services in the Frauenkirche. Ludwig Güttler and his Brass Ensemble have now recorded Christmas music in the reconstructed Frauenkirche which includes works by Gabrieli, Praetorius, and Handel. This music for winds is rendered in a colorful, virtuoso performance with the unmistakably festive, fervent sound of this top-notch, international ensemble.
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Preface writer
Eckart Schwinger
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Ensemble
Blechbläserenesemble Ludwig Güttler
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
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Conductor
Ludwig Güttler
Ludwig Güttler is one of today’s leading virtuosi on the trumpet and corno da caccia. Through his wide and diverse range of interests he has also achieved worldwide renown as a conductor, scholar, promoter, and patron. After studying in Leipzig, he was appointed principal trumpet in the Handel Festival Orchestra, Halle, in 1965. He held a similar position in the Dresden Philharmonic from 1969 to 1980. He has taught at the International Music Seminar in Weimar and as Professor at the Musikhochschule Dresden. He directs opera productions and master classes, and is a regular jury member at leading competitions. As a soloist and conductor, Ludwig Güttler has an enthusiastic following both in Germany and abroad. He has made over fifty highly-acclaimed recordings, where he is featured as a chamber musician, soloist, and conductor. Since the early 1980s he has had a particular interest in the revival of 18th century Saxon court music. Thanks to Güttler’s researches the concert repertoire has been enriched by numerous forgotten or previously unknown works of this period. Following an analysis of the materials used in early instruments, Ludwig Güttler made a considerable contribution to the new development of the corno da caccia. In 1976 he founded the Leipzig Bach-Collegium, in 1978 the Ludwig Güttler Brass ensemble and in 1985 the chamber orchestra Virtuosi Saxoniae, of which he is director and soloist. For the last twenty years, choral symphonic concerts which he directs and guest conducts have formed an increasing part of his activities. Ludwig Güttler has received numerous awards for his many achievements. He was awarded the Record Prize of the Deutsche Phonoakademie Hamburg in 1983 for the “Discovery of the Year,” and in 1989 the Frankfurt Music Prize for exceptional achievements in his specialist area, as well as in national and international musical life. As chairman of the committee of the Society to Support the Reconstruction of the Frauenkirche Dresden, he was awarded the first national prize from the German National Foundation in 1997. In 2000 he received the Claus Brendel Prize for his meritorious service to the works of Johann Adolf Hasse. In March 2006, Ludwig Güttler was awarded the German Fundraising Prize for his dedicated contribution to the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche Dresden. In September 2007 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by President Horst Köhler, and in November 2007, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Personal details
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[...] Was Güttler und seine Mannen für den diesjährigen Advent auf der von festlichem Gold umrahmten CD von Carus bereithalten, lässt aufhorchen. [...] Markant phrasiert und in binnengespannter Disposition und Transparenz wird der Musik genügend Raum und Zeit zur Entfaltung des Klangs gegeben. [...]
Erik Daumann
klassik.com, 30.10.2007
[...] Eine feurige und zugleich hochprofessionelle Live-Aufnahme der voluminösen und im Gestus noch spätbarocken "Cäcilienmesse" von 1766 mit dem Originalklang-Ensemble Anima Eterna unter Jos van Immerseel kommt aus der Dresdner Frauenkirche, deren Akustik nicht so hallig ist, dass sie alle Strukturen vernebelt. [...]
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 27.05.2009
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