Zwischen Himmel und Erde. Mozarts geistliches Werk. Ein Portrait in Briefen und Musik (Bernius, Kaljuste)
Kirchenmusik war für Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart von frühester Kindheit bis an sein Lebensende ein persönliches Anliegen und beschränkte sich nicht auf seine Zeit im Dienst des Salzburger Erzbischofs. Als Hofmusiker in Salzburg spielte er regelmäßig im Dom und in der Residenz des Erzbischofs und komponierte Musik für die Gottesdienste. Auch in seiner Wiener Zeit schrieb er bedeutende Kirchenmusik, darunter sein letztes und berühmtestes Werk, das unvollendete Requiem. Auf der CD „Zwischen Himmel & Erde“, entstanden anlässlich der Salzburger Ausstellung zu Mozarts Kirchenmusik, sind eine Auswahl von Mozarts schönsten geistlichen Werken sowie von Textpassagen aus Mozart-Briefen und Zeitdokumenten, die sich mit dem kirchenmusikalischen Schaffen und der Glaubenswelt des Komponisten auseinandersetzen, zu hören.
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L'auteur de l'avant-propos
Armin Kircher
| 1966-2015Armin Kircher studied church music at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Until his death he was Director of the Church Music Department of the Archdiocese of Salzburg, and since 1992 he had been administrative director of the Österreichische Werkwoche für Kirchenmusik (Austrian Week for Church Music). He was also Director of Music at St Peter's Abbey, Salzburg and organist at the Cajetan Church in Salzburg. The collections he edited for the Catholic liturgy have become established standard works, in particular the choral collections Chorbuch Mozart • Haydn, the Chorbuch Kirchenjahr (Choirbook for the Church Year) and publications for organ and choir for the new Catholic hymnbook Gotteslob. Armin Kircher also made a name as an arranger of beautiful settings for choir and organ. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Chœur
Kammerchor Stuttgart
The Kammerchor Stuttgart is regarded as one of the best ensembles of its kind. Over its fifty-year existence, Frieder Bernius has developed the choir into an exceptional ensemble acclaimed by audiences and press alike. This has led to invitations for the choir to perform at all the important European festivals. In Germany the chamber choir performs at festivals and in concert halls in repertoire ranging from the 17th to the 21st century. Frieder Bernius and his ensemble have received numerous accolades for their contribution to new music. The Kammerchor Stuttgart has made over 80 CDs and LPs, numerous of which have been awarded international recording prizes (including the Edison award, Diapason d’or, Gramophone Choice, Classical Internet Award, International Classical Music Award, and German Record Critics’ Award prizes). The International Federation for Choral Music has invited the ensemble to sing at the 1st, 4th and 10th World Symposia on Choral Music in Vienna, Sydney and Seoul. Regular tours of North America and Asia since 1988 and a South America tour reflect the Kammerchor Stuttgart’s international reputation. Since 1984 the top ensemble has also been invited to Israel biennially. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Ensemble
Collegium Classicum Köln
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Ensemble
Kölner Kammerchor
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Ensemble
Wiener Kammerchor
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Ensemble
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
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Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
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Ensemble
Bach-Collegium Stuttgart
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Ensemble
Arnold Schönberg Chor
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Ensemble
Concentus musicus Wien
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Orchestre
Barockorchester Stuttgart
The Barockorchester Stuttgart, which was founded by Bernius in 1985, specializes in 18th century music. The musicians are among the leading representatives of historical performance practice and perform exclusively on original instruments. The ensemble dedicates itself to a large extent to the revival of 18th century operas. It has performed at numerous international festivals, among others in Rome, Dresden and Göttingen. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Chef d'orchestre
Frieder Bernius
| 1947Frieder Bernius’s work has earned great worldwide recognition. He is in demand internationally as a conductor and as a teacher. His principal artistic collaborators are the ensembles he founded himself, the Kammerchor Stuttgart, the Barockorchester Stuttgart, the Hofkapelle Stuttgart and the Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart. As a guest conductor, he has collaborated repeatedly with, for example, the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and the Streicherakademie Bozen. Great stylistic versatility is Frieder Bernius’s hallmark. Whether he conducts vocal works by Monteverdi, Bach, Händel, Mozart, Beethoven, Fauré and Ligeti, stage music by Mendelssohn or symphonies by Haydn, Burgmüller and Schubert, his work always aims for a sound that is at once unmistakably personal and at the same time oriented towards the original period sound ideal. He devotes himself equally to the rediscovery of 18th century operas and to first performances of contemporary compositions. He is particularly interested in the musical history of southwestern Germany. Carus-Verlag has awarded Frieder Bernius a Golden CD for his complete recording of the sacred music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The award was presented to him during the German Choir Festival in Stuttgart 2016. The sale of over 250,000 recordings, which has been acclaimed with a number of awards, has made a not insignificant contribution to what today is the obvious presence of Mendelssohn's complete œuvre in the concert repertoire. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Chef d'orchestre
Helmuth Rilling
| 1933-2026
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Chef d'orchestre
Peter Neumann
| 1940-2025In recent years Peter Neumann, born in Karlsruhe, has made a name for himself particularly as a conductor of Handel’s music. This is demonstrated both by the concert series “250 Years Handel Oratorios” which he initiated – performing nine music dramas in accordance with Handel’s concert schedule of 1749–1752 – and by his numerous CD recordings. He has performed masterworks from vocal and orchestral music in the European musical capitals and at many renowned festivals, ranging from Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Vespers for the Blessed Virgin (Palais Garnier, Paris) through J. S. Bach’s passions (last in Moscow, Oslo and Versailles) and Mass in B minor (BBC Proms) to Debussy’s Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien at the MusikTriennale in Cologne. 2010, Peter Neumann and his ensembles Kolner Kammerchor and Collegium Cartusianum were guests at the Rheingau Music Festival with Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri and at the Schumann Festival in Dusseldorf as well as the Leipzig Bach Festival in 2011. In June 2012 he made his highly acclaimed debut at the Cologne Opera with Handel’s Alcina. As a guest conductor, Neumann has collaborated with, among others, ChorWerkRuhr, the Netherlands Chamber Choir, the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, the NDR Choir, the Schola Cantorum Tokyo, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and Concerto Koln. Highlights of his extensive discography include the complete recording of Mozart’s masses (Gramophone “Crown of Crowns”), Schutz’s Musical Vesper, Schumann’s Missa sacra (Diapason d’Or) and recordings of Bach’s St. John Passion and Handel’s Alexander’s Feast and Brockes Passion (Carus). Plus d'information sur la personne
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Chef d'orchestre
Johannes Prinz
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Chef d'orchestre
Tonu Kaljuste
For twenty years Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor) was artistic director and principal conductor of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, which he founded in 1981, and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. Kaljuste has also been chief conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir and the Netherlands Chamber Choir. He has directed international choral seminars and workshops for several years and has worked as a guest conductor with leading orchestras and choirs throughout Europe, Australia and America. As well as immersing himself in the music of the great northern and eastern European moderns, such as Schnittke, Kurtag, Penderecki, Rautavaara and Kancheli, he has a deep affinity with the composers of his native Estonia, including Pärt, Tüür, Tormis and Eller. He has established an international reputation with his wide-ranging repertoire from opera, via the traditional symphonic repertoire to contemporary music. His numerous recordings have won many awards and have been nominated for Grammy awards. In 1999 he received the Cannes Classical Award in the category “Best 20th Century Choral Music” for his recording of Alfred Schnittke’s Psalms of Repentance. In 2004 he was awarded first prize by the Estonian State Foundation “Kultuurkapital.” The same year he became artistic director of the Nargen Festival, an annual, three-month long musical event on the coast of Estonia. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Plus d'information sur la personne
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Chef d'orchestre
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
| 1929
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Solist - soprano
Vasiljka Jezovsek
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Solist - soprano
Kaia Urb
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Solist - soprano
Barbara Bonney
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Solist - soprano
Joan Rodgers
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Solist - soprano
Diana Damrau
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Solist - alto
Elisabeth von Magnus
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Solist - ténor
Josef Protschka
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Solist - ténor
Uwe Heilmann
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Solist - basse
László Polgár
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Solist - basse
Gilles Cachemaille
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Interprète
Hannes Eichmann
Critiques
[...] „Zwischen Himmel & Erde“ widmet sich in überaus lesenwerten Essays und Aufsätzen Mozarts Kirchenmusik. Herausragend sind im reich bebilderten 250-seitigen Band Hans Maiers Untersuchungen zum „Kirchenmusiker Mozart und der Aufklärung” und Nikolaus Harnoncourts Thesen über die Kirchenmusik der Mozart-Zeit als „Schule des Hörens``.
Helmut Peters
Quelle: FonoForum 09/06, S. 72