Bremen RathsChor
| Bremen RathsChor | |
|---|---|
| Seat: | Bremen / Germany |
| Founding: | 2008 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Founder: | Wolfgang Helbich (1943–2013) |
| Head : | Jan Huebner |
| Voices : | 100 ( SATB ) |
| Website : | www.raths-chor.de |
The Bremer RathsChor is a mixed choir in Bremen . About 100 singers belong to the Bremen RathsChor. Jan Hübner has been the director since 2013.
history
The Bremer RathsChor was founded in 2008 by members of the Bremen Cathedral Choir , when its long-time director, the church musician and cathedral cantor at St. Petri Cathedral , Wolfgang Helbich , retired from church service after reaching the age limit. Helbich died in 2013.
The former mayor of Bremen, Henning Scherf , was chairman of the Bremer RathsChor association until 2017 ; Juliane Jansen has been the chairman since 2017.
Present / artistic profile
The Bremen RathsChor has an extensive church music repertoire, which includes the great oratorios by Bach , Handel , Haydn , Mozart , Mendelssohn and Verdi . The website of the choir contains an up-to-date list of concerts. Since 2016, the RathsChor in Bremen has had a musical partnership with musicians from Odessa , during which several concerts were performed in the Odessa Philharmonic.
Discography
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248. Hugo German Gaido, Münster (Westphalia) 2008
Web links
- Literature by and about Bremer RathsChor in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the Bremer RathsChor
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabine Doll: Mourning for Wolfgang Helbich . Weser-Kurier , April 9, 2013 [1] or Burned for music . nmz - new music newspaper 5/2013 [2]
- ↑ Bremer RathsChor e. V .: Review / Archive. In: raths-chor.de. Retrieved February 1, 2019 .
Remarks
- ↑ There was a public controversy about the departure of Wolfgang Helbich: see u. a. epd message from December 23, 2006: Cathedral choirmaster is extremely disappointed , or something like : discordant notes on his birthday in the taz of November 4, 2006.