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Ferdinando Paër Missa piena d-Moll

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Something special from the Frauenkirche Dresden: Today Ferdinando Paër (1771–1839) is known, at best, by opera connoisseurs. At the same time, during his lifetime he was among the most celebrated composers and influential musical personalities of Europe. During his tenure at the Court of Dresden he composed the extensive Missa piena in D minor, a year before he was summoned to Paris by Napoleon, part of the “spoils of war.” This composition, recorded here for the first time, is impressive due to the combination of operatic melodic passages and passages of innate calmness, in which the unexpected turns also has its special charm. In addition to the outstanding ensemble of soloists, the Dresden Kreuzchor and the Staatskapelle Dresden, the two oldest musical institutions of the Elbe metropolis, came together under the direction of Kreuzkantor Roderich Kreile.
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  • Benedictus (Allegro)
  • Kyrie (Andante maestoso)
  • Christe (Andante quasi allegretto)
  • Kyrie (Fuga, Allegro giusto)
  • Gloria (Allegro)
  • Qui tollis (Larghetto)
  • Quoniam (Allegro non troppo)
  • Cum sancto spiritu (Fugato, Allegro più moderato)
  • Credo (Allegro maestoso, Larghetto, Allegro giusto)
  • Offertorium (Allegro moderato)
  • Sanctus (Andante)
  • Agnus Dei (Andante sostenuto)
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  • The Dresden Kreuzchor is one of the world’s oldest and most famous boys’ choirs. Its most important task in its 800 years of existence is still the musical accompaniment of the vespers and services at Dresden’s Kreuzkirche. Not only on religious holidays but also throughout the entire church year the Kreuzchor accompanies half of all liturgical services in the famous church on the old market. The impressive architecture of the Kreuzkirche is an added attraction for the 3000 spectators of its choir concerts. As the city’s oldest and critically acclaimed cultural institution, the Dresden Kreuzchor has marked Dresden’s musical life in a very special way and spreads the city’s reputation as a cultural metropolis throughout the world as one of its most prominent ambassadors. Several times a year, the Dresden Kreuzchor goes on national and international concert tours beyond Germany and Europe’s borders to Israel, Canada, Japan, South America and the USA. Moreover, it performs at international music festivals as well as on countless radio and television recordings. A very wide repertoire ranging from early Baroque to world premieres of contemporary music has enabled it to make more than 800 recordings in the last 80 years for prestigious record labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Teldec, Capriccio and Berlin Classics. There is a constant cooperation with famous orchestras such as the Dresden Philharmonic and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. Renowned opera houses regularly employ members of the choir as soloists for roles such as the three boys in the Magic Flute. The Kreuzchor singers, called “Kruzianer,” still pursue their education and graduate from the Kreuzschule; about half of them live in the adjacent boarding school. In addition to their regular classes, the 150 singers aged nine to eighteen have weekly singing and instrumental lessons. Their daily rehearsals and the specific sound of the choir are the basis of the success and the fame of the Dresden Kreuzchor. Personal details
  • Founded in 1548 by the Elector Moritz von Sachsen, the Staatskapelle Dresden is among the world’s oldest orchestras and it is rich in tradition; it is probably the only one which has existed continuously for more than four and a half centuries, and has always been among the leading orchestras during every epoch. Along with its unique musicianship, founded on its quite specific ensemble spirit, the unmistakable sound of the Staatskapelle has evolved through its long tradition in matters of timbre, transparency and homogeneity, which has lead audiences and critics everywhere to refer to it as one of the great orchestras of our time. Important conductors and internationally celebrated instrumentalists have left their mark on the former Hofkapelle, now Staatskapelle. Its musical directors have included Heinrich Schütz, Johann Adolf Hasse, Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner, who called the orchestra his “miraculous harp.” Important principal conductors of the 20th century were Ernst von Schuch, Fritz Reiner, Fritz Busch, Karl Böhm, Joseph Keilberth, Rudolf Kempe, Otmar Suitner, Kurt Sanderling and Herbert Blomstedt. From 1992 until his death in 2001 Giuseppe Sinopoli was the principal conductor, then from 2002 until 2004 Bernard Haitink. At the beginning of the 2007/2008 season Fabio Luisi became General Musical Director of the Staatsoper Dresden and therefore also the principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden. The honorary conductor of the orchestra since 1990 is Sir Colin Davis. In April 2007 the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden was the only orchestra so far to be awarded, in Brussels, the “Prize of the European Cultural Foundation for the preservation of the musical world cultural heritage”. Personal details
  • For centuries the position as cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor (Choir of the Church of the Holy Cross) has been among the most honorable and renowned positions in Protestant church music. Roderich Kreile has served as the 28th post-Reformation cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor since 1997. He was born in 1956 and studied church music and choral conducting in Munich. Roderich Kreile quickly achieved nationwide recognition as a church musician. He taught at the Munich Conservatoire between 1989 and 1996, eventually as a professor, and led two choirs. Furthermore, in 1994 he took over the position as Director of the Munich Philharmonic Choir. As an organist and tutor he has received invitations from both within Germany and from abroad. Kreuzkantor Roderich Kreile all music performances in the church as well as the concerts and tours of the Dresdner Kreuzchor. There, he has established with the members of the choir – named “Kruzianer” –, a wide-ranging repertoire of religious and secular choral works from throughout the history of music. In the last few years he has given many compositions their first performances. He has also strengthened ties with renowned orchestras and produced numerous radio and CD recordings. In previous centuries the area of responsibility of the cantor of the Dresdner Kreuzchor was concentrated primarily on the leadership of the religious services, as is still the case. Nowadays, however, the remit of the Kantor far exceeds purely artistic responsibility; as the leader of the Dresdner Kreuzchor, Roderich Kreile also has the responsibility of being a community representative. 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
  • Anke Vondung was born in Speyer and studied with Professor Rudolf Piernay at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts. She was an ensemble member at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck from the 1999/2000 season until the end of the 2001/02 season where she sang the central roles of her voice type. This was followed by guest appearances, among others, at the Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, the Salzburg Festival and the Mozart Week Salzburg, the Opéra Bastille Paris, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, the Staatsoper Berlin, the San Diego Opera, the Munich Opera Festival, the Flanders Festival as well as the Hamburg State Opera. She gave her debut at the Metropolitan Opera New York in October 2007 singing Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, where she later also sang in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito. She was an ensemble member of the Saxon State Opera Dresden for the seasons from 2003/04 to 2005/06, and has remained closely connected with the opera house as a guest artist. As a concert and lied singer, Anke Vondung has performed with renowned orchestras under conductors such as James Conlon, Helmuth Rilling, Sir Roger Norrington, Philippe Herreweghe, Edo de Waart, Kent Nagano, Peter Schreier, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, James Levine, Marek Janowski, Alexander Shelley, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Hans-Christoph Rademann and Jeffrey Tate. Personal details
  • Georg Zeppenfeld studied concert and opera singing in Detmold and Cologne. Along with his stage engagements (at, e. g., the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Deutsche Oper Berlin, San Francisco Opera), Georg Zeppenfeld has built up an extensive international concert career. In particular, works by Bach, Handel and Haydn, together with the great late-romantic oratorios, have given him opportunities to work in many European concert centers with such conductors as Marcus Creed, Konrad Junghänel, Peter Neumann, Peter Schreier, Helmuth Rilling and Bruno Weil. He also appears regularly at major festivals such as the Salzburger Festspiele, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Glyndebourne Festival, Brucknerfest Linz and Rheingau Musik Festival. Personal details
  • Jörg Schneider received his first musical training in the Vienna Boys’ Choir. Then he studied singing in Vienna with Elfriede Obrowsky, and he now makes guest appearances in lyrical tenor roles at major European opera houses. He is also in demand as a Lieder and concert singer. He has made guest appearances at, among other venues, the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna. Numerous CD productions demonstrate the wide range of his artistry. Jörg Schneider has worked with such conductors as Dennis Russell Davis, Edo de Waart, Pinchas Steinberg, Gustav Kuhn, Semyon Bychkow and Zubin Mehta. Personal details

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