Seven Motets, Geistliche Gesaenge by Netherlands Chamber Choir

Max Reger

Netherlands Chamber Choir

Seven Motets, Geistliche Gesaenge

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Globe
UPC: 8711525516007
Catnr: GLO 5160
Release date: 19 August 2002
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Label
Globe

UPC
8711525516007

Catalogue number
GLO 5160

Release date
19 August 2002

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About the album

Another very special addition to our highly successful series of albums with the unique and world famous Netherlands Chamber Choir conducted by Uwe Gronostay! These are the seven beautiful and intensely moving Motets for mixed a cappella chorus by Bruckner, to which the Geistliche Gesänge, Op. 138 by Max Reger, were added; the composer's last great a cappella choir composition. Bruckner wrote his Motets for church performance, some of them for the Augustinian monastery in St. Florian with which he had such special connections during the whole of his life. In the booklet are the texts oft he Bruckner Motets and of Reger's Geistliche Gesänge, with translations in to German, English and French.

Prachtige werken van Bruckner en Reger uitgevoerd door een wereldberoemd koor
Dit album vormt weer een zeer bijzondere toevoeging aan de succesvolle reeks van het unieke en wereldberoemde Nederlands Kamerkoor die geleid werden door Uwe Gronostay! Het bevat de prachtige en intens ontroerende Zeven Motetten voor gemengd a capellakoor van Anton Bruckner, en daarnaast de Geistliche Gesänge Opus 138 van Max Reger, zijn laatste grote a capellawerk. Bruckner schreef zijn Motetten voor uitvoeringen in de kerk. Sommige van hen werden voor het Augustijnenklooster in St. Florian gecomponeerd, waarmee Bruckner tijdens zijn hele leven een bijzondere band had.

Het Nederlands Kamerkoor is in 1937 opgericht door de legendarische dirigent en pianist Felix de Nobel, en is een volledig professioneel vocaal ensemble. Ook al voert het voornamelijk a capella werken of werken met begeleiding door één instrument uit, het koor werkt ook regelmatig samen met beroemde orkesten en ensembles als het Schönberg Ensemble en het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest. Het repertoire van het koor omvat bijna het geheel van de Westerse muziek, reikend van de vroege Middeleeuwen tot aan de late 20e eeuw.

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Netherlands Chamber Choir

The Netherlands Chamber Choir exists since 1937, and has been one of the world’s top choirs for decades. The Netherlands Chamber Choir has been internationally praised by critics for its homogeneous sound and for the soloist quality of the singers. One of the choir’s missions is to keep choral music very much alive as an art form, by looking for new formats, by innovative commissions and exciting collaborations. It results in concerts that are not only perceived as beautiful, but that appeal to all senses. Education and participation are a vital part of the choir’s mission. The Netherlands Chamber Choir provides coaching, workshops, and ‘adopts’ choirs as supporting act for their own concerts. Besides their own concert series, the choir often collaborates with renowned ensembles such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, ASKO|Schönberg, La...

Education and participation are a vital part of the choir’s mission. The Netherlands Chamber Choir provides coaching, workshops, and ‘adopts’ choirs as supporting act for their own concerts.

Besides their own concert series, the choir often collaborates with renowned ensembles such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, ASKO|Schönberg, La Fenice and Concert Lorrain.

From August 1, 2015 Peter Dijkstra watches over the unique sound of the Netherlands Chamber Choir The Netherlands Chamber Choir had Felix de Nobel as its first chief conductor. Uwe Gronostay, Tõnu Kaljuste, Stephen Layton and Risto Joost were his respective successors. Each of them gave the Netherlands Chamber Choir, and choral music in general, new, major impulses.

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Max Reger

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher. Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with Hugo Riemann. From September 1901 he settled in Munich, where he obtained concert offers and where his rapid rise to fame began. During his first Munich season, Reger appeared in ten concerts as an organist, chamber pianist and accompanist. He continued to compose without interruption. From 1907 he worked in Leipzig, where he was music director of the universityuntil 1908 and professor of composition at the conservatory until his death. In 1911 he moved to Meiningen where he got the position of Hofkapellmeister at the court of Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. In 1915 he moved to Jena, commuting once a week to teach in Leipzig. He died in May 1916 on...

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