Rostock motet choir
| Rostock motet choir | |
|---|---|
| Seat: | Rostock / Germany |
| Founding: | 1964 |
| Genus: | Motet choir |
| Founder: | Hartwig Eschenburg |
| Head : | Markus Johannes Langer |
| Voices : | approx. 50 (SATB) |
| Website : | www.st-johannis-kantorei.de |
The Rostock Motettenchor was founded in 1964. It is part of the St. Johannis Kantorei at the Johanniskirche (Rostock) .
history
The cantor and later church music director Hartwig Eschenburg founded a choir for demanding choral music from Schütz and Bach to Distler and Pepping four years after moving to the St. Johannis Church in Rostock .
The choir attracted attention early on with concerts in famous churches and concert halls in the GDR. He performed in the Dresden Kreuzkirche , the Thomaskirche and the New Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the Berlin Konzerthaus . Many well-known soloists, such as Peter Schreier and Ludwig Güttler , worked with the Rostock Motet Choir.
For a long time, however, the church choir was denied concert tours abroad. Only in 1988 there were appearances in Poland, and in 1989, shortly before the political change, in Schleswig-Holstein. It was the only church choir to be approved by the GDR government for recordings. Recordings of all Bach motets and an LP with the title Abendstille were made. In addition to numerous concerts also in the old federal states, for example at the end of the Bach Academy in Stuttgart, the choir, which has a wide repertoire of a cappella and oratorio works from classical to modern, has already performed in Luxembourg, Denmark, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.
A particular highlight was the participation in the Oregon Bach Festival in the USA in 1995, where the choir took part in an international performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem .
The founder of the choir, church music director Hartwig Eschenburg, led the choir until 2000. After that, Markus Johannes Langer took over the management of the St. Johannis Kantorei and thus also of the Rostock motet choir.
In 2002 the choir was a guest in England and in 2003 in Amsterdam. In 2003 the choir and the Hilliard Ensemble performed the final concert of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Music Summer with works by Arvo Pärt .
In April 2005 the choir performed Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's “ Elias ” with Thomas Quasthoff . In the summer of 2005, the Rostock Motettenchor and the Hilliard Ensemble organized a Heinrich Schütz program as part of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival and an Arvo Pärt program as part of the Rheingau Music Festival , in which the composer himself was present . A concert tour with works by the Graz court orchestra took the choir together with the Barocco Locco orchestra through the Netherlands in autumn 2005. In February 2006 the choir sang the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach with Thomas Quasthoff as Christ.
The Rostock Motettenchor has been an integral part of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival for several years and has played in the Musik aus MV series together with Festival Prize winners and other well-known artists. In 2012 and 2016, for example, the Motettenchor and The King's Singers gave concerts in the Doberan Minster and in the St. Georgen Church in Parchim as part of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival . The festival's program also included the choir's concert for the Hilliard Ensemble's farewell tour on July 20, 2014 in Doberan Minster.
Trips in Germany and abroad are still being planned. The main focus of the choir's engagement is in Rostock and the surrounding area.
Discography
- Bach motets on Bach Edition Leipzig 1980-1984 at Capriccio 2000
- Bach motets on Bach Edition Leipzig 1980-1984 at Delta 2006
- Evening silence Berlin 1988
- In Principio in Aliud 2006
- various CD with concert recordings self-published
Web links
- Works by and about Rostocker Motettenchor in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.festspiele-mv.de ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.svz.de
- ↑ www.festspiele-mv.de
