St. Luke Passion & The Seven Last Words
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Compositeur
Heinrich Schütz
| 1585-1672Heinrich 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. Plus d'information sur la personne
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L'auteur de l'avant-propos
Oliver Geisler
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Chœur
Dresdner Kammerchor
Le Dresdner Kammerchor (Chœur de chambre de Dresde) – l’un des meilleurs chœurs d’Allemagne – est bien connu pour sa sonorité unique, faite d’une grande intensité et clarté. Rayonnement dynamique, homogénéité et transparence sonores souvent cités en exemple sont les points forts de cet ensemble demandé au niveau international. Le chœur a été créé en 1985 par Hans-Christoph Rademann et des étudiants du Conservatoire de musique « Carl Maria von Weber » de Dresde. De nombreuses tournées de concerts ont établi la notoriété de l’ensemble également hors d’Europe. En ont résulté des invitations régulières à d’importants festivals internationaux. Le répertoire du chœur va de la musique de la Renaissance à des compositions du 21ème siècle. Des interprétations de la musique chorale romantique et contemporaine ont été récompensées de prix spéciaux lors de concours internationaux, ainsi que du prix d’encouragement de la fondation Ernst von Siemens. En dehors de la pratique a cappella, le chœur de chambre se consacre intensément à la coopération avec le Dresdner Barockorchester et l’ensemble « Alte Musik Dresden », donnant des impulsions importantes à la pratique de la musique ancienne en Saxe. Une foule d’enregistrements pour la radio et pour le CD, ainsi que la coopération avec des orchestres allemands et étrangers viennent renforcer la renommée du Chœur de chambre de Dresde. Le CD paru aux Editions Carus de Stuttgart, avec le premier enregistrement mondial du Requiem en mi bémol majeur de Johann Adolf Hasse s’est vu décerner le prix de la Critique allemand du disque. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Ensemble
The Sirius Viols
Since 2003 a group comprising mainly gamba players has come together under the name The Sirius Viols, and depending on the project and repertoire, they are joined by other instrumentalists and sing - ers to try out various musical ideas or approaches under the non-direction of Hille Perl. The participants are either current or former students of Hille Perl, together with the colleagues she most admires from related disciplines. The ensemble’s repertoire is restricted to music which is suited to gambas and their specific aura, or under certain circumstances in combination with other instruments or singers; that is to say, virtually all of the gamba repertoire. After the first extremely successful CD was issued, entitled In darkness let me dwell, with music by John Dowland, Sirius Viols released a CD of Christmas music in November 2011 – a search for peace and calm in these hectic times: Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Chef d'orchestre
Hans-Christoph Rademann
| 1965Conductor 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. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Solist - soprano
Ulrike Hofbauer
Ulrike Hofbauer studied singing and vocal pedagogy in Würzburg and Salzburg and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. She has collaborated as a soloist with numerous renowned ensembles and conductors. Her interest in acting finds its outlet on the opera stage, among others in/at the theaters in Basle, Berne and Magdeburg. With her own prize-winning ensemble savadi, Hofbauer combines historical authenticity with modern esprit and emotionality; projects with larger forces are realized with her ensemble &cetera. Since 2014 she has taught Baroque singing at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Her repertoire embraces all epochs and styles – her intensive preoccupation with musical rhetoric, ornamentation and the “recitar cantando” style thereby form the main emphases of her artistic work. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Solist - alto
Stefan Kunath
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Solist - ténor
Jan Kobow
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Solist - ténor
Tobias Mäthger
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. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Solist - ténor
Claudius Pobbig
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Solist - basse
Felix Schwandtke
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. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Solist - basse
Felix Rumpf
Lyric baritone Felix Rumpf was born in 1984 in Halle an der Saale. He began his vocal studies with Susanne Stahl in Dresden in 2004. There he took part in various school productions, singing roles including Agamemnon (La Belle Hélène), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) and in Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust. A member of Olaf Bär’s lieder class since 2007, he has presented song recitals in the “Lied in Dresden” and “Lied-gut” series. After his diploma in 2009, postgraduate studies in opera and concert followed, which he completed with distinction in 2011. Felix Rumpf has attended master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Julia Varady, Peter Schreier, Ruth Ziesak, and Gerold Huber. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Solist - basse
Georg Preißler
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Solist - basse
Dirk Döbrich
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solist - luth
Hille Perl
Hille Perl, gamba-player, has played music as long as she can remember. For her, music is the foremost means of communication between human beings, more precise and intense and unmistakable than language, of greater emotional significance than any other experience besides love. She travels the world, playing concerts and recording CDs with different groups or performing as a soloist, mostly in the field of 17th and 18th century music but also letting the music take her to places she never even dreamed of. With passion she teaches her students at the Hochschule der Kunste in Bremen, Germany, everything she knows about music, playing the gamba, and how not to be jealous if someone plays better than you. People of the world: relax… Plus d'information sur la personne
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Solist - orgue
Ludger Rémy
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. Plus d'information sur la personne
Critiques
[…] Heinrich Schütz vom Feinsten - absolute Referenzaufnahme[.] - ein Genuss von Anfang bis Ende. […] Für Liebhaber Schützscher Musik ist die Anschaffung dieser CD[.] ein absolutes Muss!
Württembergische Blätter für Kirchenmusik 6/2014
Der karge, alles vermeintlich überflüssige aussparende Stil der Lukaspassion eignet sich bestens als klingendes Gegenstück zur ausklingenden Fastenzeit. […] Insofern sind die musikalischen Predigten von Schütz/Rademann eine willkommene Gelegenheit, uns in Gelassenheit und Geduld zu üben und wieder zuhören zu lernen.
Mátyás Kiss, nmz online, 14. April 2014
[Rademann] beweist mit der Aufnahme, wie der Spagat zwischen der schlichten, fast archaischen Struktur und fesselnder Interpretation mühelos gelingt. […] Hier […] erkennt man dank Rademanns klug gewählten Tempi und seiner eher reflektierenden Musizierhaltung, dass es Schütz weniger um äußerliche Dramatik als vielmehr um das innere Erleben und Nachvollziehen des Hörers ging. Diesen Anspruch, den Hörer auf sich selbst zurückzuwerfen, realisieren Rademann und sein vorzüglicher Kammerchor perfekt.
Markus Dippold, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 2. April 2013
Die jüngste CD überzeugt mit denselben Eigenschaften ihrer Vorgängerinnen: einem ausgezeichnet artikulierenden und gut balancierten Chor, angenehm agierenden Soliloquenten und einem Konzept, das dem Verkündigungscharakter und der vom Wort gezeugten Musik Schütz' in idealer Weise gerecht wird. […] eine audiophile Rarität.
Glaube + Heimat, 17. März 2013
Hans-Christoph Rademann ist Schütz‘ sprachgezeugter Musik mit seinem Ansatz inzwischen auf fast ideale Weise nah, solistisch wie chorisch gleichermaßen niveauvoll. Rademann lässt sich ganz auf die schlichte Diktion der Schützschen Passionsmusiken ein. Schütz verliert nicht, er gewinnt an Größe, wenn man seinem Alterswerk den nötigen Raum gibt und interpretatorisch konzentriert ist. Das Ergebnis ist ein Vortrag ohne Schwachstellen, der den anderen Veröffentlichungen zu diesem Repertoire […] deutlich vorzuziehen ist. Die Produktion ist einer Gesamteinspielung absolut würdig.
Dr. Matthias Lange, klassik.com, 13. März 2013
[…] c'est un excellent CD qui nous présente un répertoire recueilli qui livre une vision plus humble, moins spectaculaire de la souffrance et de la mort du Christ.
pizzicato, Pizzicato Supersonic Award, 3/2013
[…] Schütz, wie man ihn liebt.
Mannheimer Morgen, 17. Januar 2013