Bern Chamber Choir
| Bern Chamber Choir | |
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| Seat: |
 Bern
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| Founding: | 1940 |
| Genus: | Concert choir |
| Founder: | Fritz Indermühle |
| Head : | Jörg Ritter |
| Voices : | 60 ( SATB ) |
| Website : | http://www.bernerkammerchor.ch/ |
The Bern Chamber Choir is a mixed Swiss choir that has existed for 80 years and has played a key role in shaping the musical image of the city of Bern . The emphasis is on the performance of demanding sacred choral music .
history
The Bern Chamber Choir was founded in the summer of 1940 by Fritz Indermühle. Demanding a cappella choral works were on the program from the start. From 1974 to 2012 Jörg Ewald Dähler was artistic director of the Bern Chamber Choir. Since then, the choir has set itself the goal of maintaining and performing demanding sacred choral music. That does not rule out that from time to time secular music - such as B. The "Seasons" by Joseph Haydn - is on the program.
Present / artistic profile
The Bern Chamber Choir currently consists of 50 - 60 singers. Jörg Ritter has been the artistic director since 2012, and he regularly performs with the choir with challenging works of sacred choral music. The performances and concerts on Good Friday and the third Sunday in Advent have been cornerstones of Bern's musical life for years. The choir has not only made a name for itself through appearances in the Bern Minster , but also at festivals in Germany and abroad - for example in Paris or Berlin - which is underpinned by radio and CD recordings.
Highlights
From the richly filled calendar of the Bern Chamber Choir, some highlights of the past decades are to be mentioned below:
- 1974 oratorio “The Year” by Willy Burkhard
- 1985 “St. Matthew Passion” by JS Bach for the Bach Year with the Camerata Bern and Ernst Häfliger
- 1987 World premiere of the “Lukas Passion” by Jörg Ewald Dähler in the Bern Minster
- 1993 Participation in the festival concert "100 Years of the Münsterturm" with the "Te Deum" by G. Verdi
- 1994 JS Bach Mass in B minor for the opening of the Meiringer Festival
- 1996 "Jubelmesse" in G major by CM von Weber
- 1997 Mass in E flat major by Franz Schubert
- 1999 “Requiem” by S. von Neukomm as a Swiss premiere
- 2001 “The Creation” by J. Haydn
- 2002 "Missa Votiva" by JD Zelenka
- 2014 Requiem by Mozart in the version by Levin
- 2015 "75 years Bern Chamber Choir": St. Matthew Passion by Bach and final concert of the Bach Weeks Thun (Magnificat by Bach)
- 2017 Elias von Mendelssohn with original instruments and u. a. Martina Jankova as a soprano
- 2018 Brockes Passion by Handel with Markus Brutscher as evangelist
- 2020 "80 Years Bern Chamber Choir", Mozart Mass in C minor, Willy Burkhardt "The Flood", Daniel Glaus "Commissioned Composition", Bach Mass in B minor
Discography
- Joseph Haydn: Nelson Mass Hob 22.11. Claves-Verlag, Thun [1984]
- Jan Dismas Zelenka : Requiem ZWV 45. Claves-Verlag, Thun [1985]
- Baldassare Galuppi : Magnificat in G major for soprano, choir and orchestra. Claves-Verlag, Thun [1986]