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Ottorino Respighi Lauda per la Natività del Signore

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In 1930 Ottorino Respighi composed his “Lauda per la Natività del ­Signore”, the only sacred choral work among his entire opus. In this hymn of praise to the miracle of Christmas, majestic sounding choral passages alternate with the soloistic roles of Maria, the Angel and the shepherd, accompanied by the sound of pastoral instruments. The music is varied, containing stylistic elements ranging from the late romantic to neo baroque, as well as echoes of Gregorian chant. In this recording by the Rundfunkchor Berlin, under the direction of Nicolas Fink and Maris Sirmais, Respighi’s composition is presented together with beautiful Christmas pieces by Poulenc, Sandström, Kaminsky and Raphael. Like Respighi, in their compositions they employed various techniques and harmonies from previous musical eras.
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  • Blest Mary wanders through the thorn
  • Now come, the nation's Saviour
  • Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
  • O magnum mysterium
  • Poulenc: O magnum mysterium
  • Poulenc: Quem vidistis, pastores
  • Poulenc: Videntes stellam
  • Poulenc: Hodie Christus natus est
  • Lauda per la Natività del Signore
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  • Maris Sirmais was born in 1969 in Riga. In 1992 he studied choral conducting at the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, receiving his Masters degree in 1996 as a conducting student of Imants Kokars. Sirmais later continued his orchestral conducting studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts. In 1990, while still a student, Sirmais founded the Kamer… Youth Choir in order to realize his creative projects; the choir has won more than 60 national and international competitions. In addition, Sirmais conducted the Dzintars Women’s Choir from 1992 to 1997; since 1997, he has been principal conductor of the State Academic Choir Latvia. Under his baton, the choir performs regularly at large concerts in Latvia and abroad, together with world-famous orchestras, musicians and conductors. 2001 saw the beginning of a collaboration with Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica. As artistic director of the annual International Sacred Music Festival in Riga, Sirmais consistently continues the tradition of this music festival of promoting young Latvian composers and performing their works. Sirmais teaches at the Riga Cathedral Choir School and is a member of several international juries. He is also principal conductor of the Latvian Song and Dance Festival and the Latvian School Youth Song and Dance Festival. Maris Sirmais, like his choirs, has been awarded the Latvian Great Music Award several times. Personal details
  • The Swiss conductor Nicolas Fink has conducted the Rundfunkchor Berlin, the choirs of the MDR and the WDR, the Coro Casa da Musica Porto as well as the Choeur de Radio France, and is also a welcome guest with other radio choirs for the preparation and rehearsal of large-scale works (among others for Sir Simon Rattle, Marek Janowski and Thomas Hengelbrock). In 2014 he was appointed choir director of the newly-founded Schleswig Holstein Festival Choir. He is especially interested in new forms of performance. He conducted the world premiere of Christian Jost’s LOVER in Kraftwerk Berlin with the Rundfunkchor Berlin. In 2015 Nicolas Fink will conduct the same ensemble in the traditional Christmas concert in the Berlin Cathedral, in a scenic realization by the director Jasmina Hadziahmetovic, as well as the highly acclaimed production human requiem in Hong Kong and Brussels. In Bergen he initiated and conducted the Norwegian premiere of Martin’s Le vin herbé with the Edvard Grieg Kor in a visual realization by the photographer Magnus Skrede. His performance of a choreographed version of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil with the WDR Rundfunkchor was enthusiastically received. Fink completed his studies in choral conducting at the Lucerne School of Music with distinction and also received a performance diploma as a baritone. Further studies led him to master classes around the world, including a conducting fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center in 2006. Personal details
  • Yeree Suh studied singing at Seoul National University and obtained her Solo Diploma with distinction from the Berlin University of the Arts as a student of Harald Stamm. She subsequently completed her education with Regina Werner- Dietrich at the University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig and with Gerd Türk at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The Korean soprano made her debut in 2003 at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music as Nina in Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo conducted by René Jacobs. She has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Herreweghe, Koopman, Kuijken and Suzuki, performing with orchestras such as the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and has sung at important festivals. At the same time, she has established a reputation as a performer of contemporary music, singing in, for example, the European premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s Fantasie with lilies white with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. The release of Suh’s debut recording Musik der Hamburger Pfeffersäcke with the Elbipolis Baroque Orchestra was met with great enthusiasm. Personal details
  • Born in Cologne, Kristine Larissa Funkhauser studied singing with Liselotte Hammes at the music university of her home town. Already during her final examinations, the mezzo-soprano was engaged by the State Theater Detmold. She subsequently held permanent engagements at the Theater Osnabrück and at the Theater Hagen, where she is still engaged. Her extensive repertoire contains almost 50 roles, among them Carmen, Donna Elvira und Werther’s Charlotte as well as roles from contemporary operas. She was nominated several times as Singer of the Year for her performance of Sibel in Ludger Vollmer’s opera adaptation Gegen die Wand, as well as being awarded a career grant. She has sung as a guest at numerous opera houses, among them Kassel, Düsseldorf, Mainz and Oldenburg. Kristine Larissa Funkhauser has performed as a Lied and oratorio singer in, among others, Italy, Austria, Poland and Switzerland. Personal details
  • Krystian Adam studied singing at the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw and at the Milan Conservatory, making his debut as Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Barber of Seville. His first engagements brought him together with, among others, the ensembles La Risonanza, La Divina Armonia, Il Giardino Armonico and I Barocchisti. He was invited as an opera singer to La Scala in Milan, the Teatro La Fenice and the leading theaters of Verona, Genoa and Vicenza. Adam has performed at a number of festivals, for example, the “Internationale Barocktage Stift Melk,” the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and the Music Festival Potsdam Sanssouci. The tenor has collaborated with conductors such as Claudio and Roberto Abbado, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Giovanni Antonini, Fabio Bonizzoni, Federico Maria Sardelli and Diego Fasolis. Personal details

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Respighi - Lauda per la natività

Polyphonia Ensemble Berlin performs the accompaniment with flawless intonation and a consistent and pleasing sound that provides a superior sense of ensemble...
Jennifer Adam, Choral Journal, Dezember 2016

This beautiful, uplifting yet little known Christmas cantata is superbly performed on this recording by the Rundfunkchor Berlin and Polyphonia Ensemble Berlin.
contertoNet.com, Gilles Lesur, 2. September 2016


 

 

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