Elsa & Ernst August Eicker
Elsa & Ernst August Eicker is a singing duo of Christian music work We sing for Jesus in the style of salvation and gospel music consisting of the married couple Elsa Eicker in the soprano voice and Ernst August Eicker in the tenor voice .
history
Elsa and Ernst August Eicker had been singing together since 1955 , especially in the context of local church services, when they were discovered by the organist Peter van Woerden in his opening program on a concert tour . The music producer in the Christian record label Happy Message in the song of the book and record publisher Hermann Schulte in Wetzlar invited the duet to audition and subsequent sound recording in 1962. Your first single Is it true that Jesus died for me? appeared in 1963. Even before the release of the phonogram, the titles of Evangeliums-Rundfunk and Trans World Radio were quickly known to a wide audience.
Further recordings with the duet followed until Ernst August Eicker founded the Wir-singen-für-Jesus-Chor in 1966, giving his musical work a different focus. From then on, Elsa & Ernst August Eicker usually only appeared as a complementary act in their choir concerts. Through the emergence of other choirs and groups such as the children's choir under the direction of Elsa Eicker, a guitar choir and the family quartet Die Eickers , the musical work We sing for Jesus was created , under whose roof the duet is still active today.
Now in active retirement, the duet appeared again increasingly as such and followed various concert invitations, from the Drachenfels ship to the nostalgic concert series Unforgotten - songs that remain of the Evangeliums-Rundfunks and Gerth Medien . In 2010 the CD Unforgotten - songs that remain: Elsa & Ernst August Eicker with Wir-singen-für-Jesus-Choirs with their early recordings from the 1960s was digitized and remastered .
Discography
Singles
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| 1963 |
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Good news in song 45,677 |
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| 1964 |
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Good news in song 45,694 |
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| 196? |
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Good news in song 45.929 |
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| 196? | God will carry you |
Good news in song 45.946 |
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| 196? |
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Good news in song 75.963 |
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| 196? | How much God loved the world |
1 Margret Birkenfeld ; 2 Wetzlar studio choir * |
Good news in the song 75,990 |
* Designation at initial publication: "Members of the Wetzlar Evangelium Choir" | |
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| 196? |
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1 Wetzlar studio choir * | Good news in the song | * Designation at the initial publication: "HSW Studiochor" |
Compilations
| year | title | Label | Remarks |
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| 197? |
A day's work for the Savior Golden series |
Good news in the song | Compilation from the singles by Elsa & Ernst August Eicker |
| 2010 | Unforgotten 8: Elsa & Ernst August Eicker with We sing for Jesus choirs | Gerth media | Compilation of the singles by Elsa & Ernst August Eicker as well as from We sing for Jesus choir and We sing for Jesus guitar choir |
Individual evidence
- ^ Westfälische Rundschau: The Eicker couple from Halver made radio popular
- ↑ http://www.wirsingenfuerjesus.de/downloads/lebenslaufbericht.pdf
- ↑ Interview ERF Director Jürgen Werth with Ernst August Eicker and Ruthild Eicker. February 2, 2018, accessed November 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Interview with Gerth Medien ( Memento of October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), ccmtexte.de
- ^ Report: Concert on the Rhine ship
- ↑ http://www.erf.de/index.php?node=4355&content_item=998
- ↑ 1,100 visitors to the “Unforgotten” concert in the town hall ( Memento from May 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), eann.de, article from May 20, 2011.
- ↑ http://www.gerth.de/index.php?id=details&sku=939419