Fröhlich will ich singen. Sacred and secular songs
Sommaire
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Compositeur
Johannes Eccard
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L'auteur de l'avant-propos
Ingeborg Allihn
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Chœur
Staats- und Domchor Berlin
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Ensemble
Lautten Compagney Berlin
The Lautten Compagney is one of the most renowned and creative baroque instrument ensembles in Germany. Their concerts, under the artistic direction of Wolfgang Katschner, have fascinated audiences for three decades. With their infectious joy in performing and their innovative concepts, these ‘early musicians’ effortlessly translate the musical language of the Baroque to the present. Whether it’s as a solo chamber ensemble or an opera orchestra, the ensemble is continually crossing boundaries and seeking out encounters with new sounds and other art forms. The ensemble has received numerous awards for its exciting musical collaborations. For its CD recording of the program Timeless, combining early Baroque music with works by Philip Glass, it received an ECHO Klassik award in 2010. And their winning the Rheingau Musik Prize 2012 was in recognition of the Lautten Compagney’s creative concert programming. The ensemble has a particular interest in music theater, especially the works of George Frideric Handel. Their performances of Handel’s Serse on a tour of New Zealand in 2011 took both audiences and press by storm. Their production of Rinaldo, a collaboration with the Milan puppet company Carlo Colla e Figli, was enthusiastically received by young and old alike. The Lautten Compagney is a regular guest at leading national and international concert halls and festivals, including the Konzerthaus and Radialsystem V in Berlin, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Frauenkirche Dresden, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Vienna Musikverein, Warsaw Philharmonic, An unmistakable sound, breathtaking blend, tremendous sense of musical assurance and a good portion of charm and wit are amarcord’s special hallmarks. The group’s extremely diverse and wide-ranging repertoire encompasses medieval songs, Renaissance madrigals and masses, compositions and cycles of works from the European Romantic and 20th century as well as a cappella arrangements of folk songs from all over the world, and well-known rock, pop, soul, and jazz songs. The ensemble has won prizes at numerous international competitions. In 2002 amarcord won the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb. Alongside the Gewandhaus Orchestra and St. Thomas’s Choir, amarcord is one of the most important representatives of the music city of Leipzig at home and abroad. The group is a frequent guest at leading music festivals. Numerous concert tours have taken the singers to over fifty countries and to almost every continent in the world. In association with the Goethe-Institut they have given guest performances in Australia, South East Asia, the Middle East, Russia, Africa, and Central America. The International Festival for Vocal Music “a cappella” (www.a-cappella-festival.de), inaugurated by amarcord in 1997, has become one of the most important festivals of its kind under the group’s artistic direction. Numerous CDs impressively document the different facets of amarcord’s repertoire, and have won many prizes such as ECHO Klassik (2010, 2012), the International Classical Music Award, Supersonic Award and the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Chef d'orchestre
Kai-Uwe Jirka
Critiques
Diese abwechslungsreichen Arrangements, verbunden mit frischem, klangschönen Musizieren voller Vitalität, machen die CD zu einem Hörgenuss.
(Katharina Larissa Paech, Musica Sacra, 3/2012)
For those with an interest in late-Renaissance, post-Reformation German music, and those with an interest in stylish, imaginative early-music recordings, this disc will be a welcome addition to their collections. It includes eight world premiere recordings, and offers a vibrant take on the music of Eccard.
(David Rentz, Choral Journal, Juni/Juli 2012)
Dem Hörer [wird] ein Querschnitt durch Eccards kompositorisches Schaffen geboten, der zugleich einen authentischen Eindruck von der Kompositions- und Musizierweise jener Zeit vermitteln kann.
(Mannheimer Morgen, 9. Februar 2012)
Eccards schule bildenden Kantionalsätzen werden Sänger und Instrumentalisten gleichermaßen gerecht. Das Wechselbad zwischender Skurrilität des Alltags und der Erhabenheit des Gottesdienstes wirkt erfrischend. Freunde alter Musik werden an dieser CD viel Freude haben.
(Michael Klein, Glaube und Heimat - Mitteldeutsche Kirchenzeitung, 1. Januar 2012)
Die vorliegende CD des Staats-und Domchors besticht durch ihren großen Wohlklang und farbige Üppigkeit. Einen beträchtlichen Anteil trägt dazu das farbenreiche Spiel der Lautten Compagney Berlin bei, die mit ihrer opulenten Begleitung den glänzenden Rahmen für die mehrstimmigen Chorwerke bildet. … Es ist eine wahre Freude, den Musikern zuzuhören.
(Christiane Bayer, klassik.com, 31. Dezember 2011)