Hassler Consort
The Hassler Consort is an ensemble founded by Franz Raml in 1992 that reproduces early music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods on original instruments or on instruments that sound like the original.
history
The Hassler Consort was founded in 1992 by the organist and harpsichordist Franz Raml . The ensemble derives its name from the South German musician and organist Hans Leo Hassler . It soon consisted of professional musicians. In the past, the monastery churches on Oberschwäbische Barockstraße and the Ulm region formed a regional focus of the performances .
Repertoire focus
In addition to works by Claudio Monteverdi , Johann Sebastian Bach , Antonio Vivaldi and Georg Friedrich Händel , the program focuses on public concerts and recordings as well as outspoken rediscoveries from the 16th to 18th centuries from southern German and Austrian cultural areas.
Artistic output
Recordings
It has been invited to concerts, radio and television recordings at many international festivals and concert series since its inception:
- WDR night concerts
- MDR -Musiksommer Dresden
- Melk Baroque Festival ( ORF )
- International Organ Week Nuremberg ( BR )
- Festival Europa Mitte (Czech Radio)
Participation in festivals and concert series
- International Bach Academy and European Music Festival Stuttgart
- Maulbronn monastery concerts
- Ottobeuren monastery concerts
- Days of Old Music Herne
- Festival of European Church Music in Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Swabian Culture Days Roggenburg Monastery
- Ochsenhausen monastery concerts
- Lasso Renaissance Munich
- International organ festival Stift Zwettl
- Lake Constance Festival
- Church music at the Martin Luther Church in Ulm
- Ludwigsburg Palace Festival
Discography (selection)
- The composer Johann Caspar von Kerll - Comment: This was the first CD of the Hassler Consort with the "Missa non sine quare", Cantiones sacrae and organ works (produced in cooperation with the SWF).
- Claudio Monteverdi: "Vesperae in Nativitate Sti. Joannis Baptistae" - Comment: A reconstruction of a music for worship based on various sources.
- Michael Praetorius : Multi-choir choir concerts and motets at Christmas time
- Johann Caspar von Kerll: Missa pro defunctis - Comment: The attempt to reconstruct the liturgical parts of an All Souls' Mass in southern Germany from the late 17th century.
- Giacomo Carissimi : Oratorios and Motets
- Josef and Michael Haydn : Christmas motets, songs, organ concert, C major
- Johann Beer : The first recording of the double-choir Missa S. Marcellini by Johann Beer (1655-1700)
- Justin Heinrich Knecht : for his 250th birthday - psalm settings for solos, choir and orchestra