Boys' Choir Basel

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Boys' Choir Basel
Knabenkantorei Basel.svg
Seat: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Basel
Carrier: independent
Founding: 1927
Genus: Boys' choir
Founder: Hermann Ulbrich
Head : Oliver Rudin
Voices : 80 (SATB)
Website : www.knabenkantorei.ch

The Knabenkantorei Basel ( KKB ) is a Swiss boys' choir from Basel ; it emerged from the singing boys of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Basel-Stadt , founded by Hermann Ulbrich in 1927 . Today the choir is denominationally neutral. Sacred and secular works are sung. The choir has been under the direction of Oliver Rudin since 2017 .

The choir has participated in major music festivals, such as the Lucerne International Music Festival under James Conlon , Mario Venzago , Riccardo Chailly and Mariss Jansons , the European Music Festival in Berlin under Roland Bader , the International Boys' Choir Festival in Poznan (Poland) and festivals in Nancy , Maastricht , Venice , Basel and 1997 at the Schubert Choir Festival in Vienna . The Knabenkantorei Basel is also the host choir of the European Youth Choir Festival (EJCF) .

construction

The choir consists of around 45 boys and 35 male voices. The male voices are usually former boy's voices who can look back on many years of choral experience. The singers use a substantial part of their free time: In addition to rehearsals, there are church services , concerts , concert tours, radio and TV recordings as well as CD recordings. A choir camp takes place annually to deepen the repertoire .

Since the 1980s, the choir has performed with a green and white logo and in concert clothing consisting of red plush sweaters, white collared shirts and black trousers. The club colors officially established for the first time in 2008 are green and red.

repertoire

The a cappella -literature ranges from the Renaissance ( Handl , contactor ) to the contemporary ( Miskinis , Tormis ). The focus is on the performances of oratorios , masses and cantatas by composers such as Bach , Handel , Mozart , Mendelssohn , Britten and Rossini . The boys' voices also take part in the Lucerne Festival and in opera performances by the Basel Theater : Die Zauberflöte , Tosca , Mefistofele , Carmen , La Bohème , Carmina Burana and Macbeth . The KKB singers could also be heard as soloists at the theaters in Bern and Freiburg im Breisgau in the Magic Flute .

history

Foundation and first years

The founding of the choir goes back to the initiative of the secondary school teacher Hermann Ulbrich , who sang with the Basel Bach Choir and attended the frequent concerts of the St. Thomas Choir under Karl Straube in Basel. Ulbrich turned to Ernst Lipp , also a Bach choir singer and President of the Commission for Teaching in Biblical History (KUBG), and suggested that he found a singing school that would serve the church to ensure choral care, but which was run by the YMCA was independent. Lipp passed the idea on to the church council, where it met with little approval. Nevertheless, in May 1927, the KUBG approved the draft guideline that Ulbrich had previously prepared together with Lipp and YMCA youth secretary Jakob Staehelin , and took over the choir, which had yet to be founded, in its area of ​​responsibility.

At the beginning of June 1927, Ulbrich had advertising letters sent to the boys' secondary schools in Basel for the singing boys institutionalized in May of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Basel-Stadt . The first informative meeting with 33 interested boys took place on June 15, 1927; this date is seen as the foundation date of the KKB. The first rehearsal took place on August 19, 1927 in the bishop's court of the minster , but soon they switched to the Katharinen chapel in the cloister due to heating problems. The first public appearance took place on October 30, 1927 as part of a service in St. Martin's Church ; However, it was a fiasco because the only 19 boys who appeared sang so badly that Ulbrich threatened to give up. However, Lipp encouraged him to continue, and by Christmas 1927 the choir was delighted in the service in the Theodorskirche .

The third appearance at a Bach concert in April 1928 was also the last before a long break in the summer during which a large advertising campaign was carried out to secure the number of singers. The Münster organist Adolf Hamm played a large part in the action ; He managed that after the successful action the choir, which had grown to 63 boys, was allowed to perform the Bach Christmas Oratorio with the Bach Choir at Christmas 1928 and the Passion Concerto at Easter 1929. In August 1929, on the occasion of the first parents' evening, a working committee was established, as its president - and thus the first president of the KKB - Jakob Staehelin was elected.

Also in August 1929, the choir students of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Basel-Stadt , which consisted of former singing boys after the voice broke, were founded. The expansion of the choir to include male voices had already been considered in January 1928, but a corresponding appeal to the upper schools remained without a response; the church council also rejected it because of unwanted competition against the adult parish and church choirs. Nevertheless, the choir students performed at Hamm's Free Organ Play in December 1928, but subsequently could not hold up (for the time being).

On December 22nd, 1929, the boys' choir held its own performance for the first time in the form of a Christmas liturgy, which together with the well-known soprano Helene Sandreuter was a great success.

The choir quality, which was still modest in comparison with large boarding choirs, was an issue among singing parents in 1930, because after a weak performance in a church service in Kleinhüningen , they demanded that further public appearances be avoided for the time being. Therefore, after the 1930 summer vacation, the rehearsal time was extended from 75 to 120 minutes and divided into 60 minutes of singing technique and choir rehearsal. In the meantime, the choir comprised 88 boys, which resulted in a rehearsal location from the St. Johanns Chapel to a larger and much more expensive location on Nadelberg near St. Peter's Church . In December 1930 the choir celebrated its 25th appearance. The quality and performance gradually increased, so that the first boy soloists were already planned.

In 1931 Ulbrich introduced a hierarchy group system based on the popular boy scouts ; Following the example of the master singers , the boys could move up from pupil to singer and finally to master . Other elements such as badges or a “singer's mirror” (equivalent to the boy scout promise ) were included. How long this hierarchical system lasted is not known. However, everyone was involved in the public appearances. The idea of ​​a choir camp, which had arisen in 1930, was taken up again by President Staehelin in 1932 and carried out in Greifensee from October 3 to 13 . The fifth anniversary, which took place in 1932, was celebrated with a big family evening with a lottery and a program.

One problem that arose again and again between 1930 and 1933 was the fluctuating number of singers and the quality of the choir: if Ulbrich was able to keep a part of the many recruited singers in the choir and train them to perform promising performances, those best singers usually fell into the choir immediately the voice broke and had to resign, while Ulbrich had to recruit and train new boys. In addition, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis planned to set up a children's choir, which would have meant additional competition. That is why a “school department” (today's “basic course”) was introduced in 1933 in order to avoid further deterioration in quality. Talented singers continued to join the choir immediately, the others went to the school department first. Another innovation was introduced in 1933 with voice training ; Helene Sandreuter could be won over for this. The expensive rehearsal location on Nadelberg was exchanged for the hospital church. At the end of the year, Jakob Staehelin resigned as President because he had left Basel; his cousin Hans Staehelin took over his position.

The following years up to the Second World War were marked by solid continued work. Ulbrich and the voice trainer Sandreuter became lovers during this time, they married on July 11, 1936. Also in 1936, Alfred Courvoisier took over the presidency. In December 1938, a half-hour radio broadcast was recorded with the choir for the first time . The highlight of the year, however, took place on May 12, 1938: participation in the world premiere of Arthur Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher at the Basel Theater with Ida Rubinstein as Jeanne and the Basel Chamber Orchestra under Paul Sacher . The performance with the Singknaben was repeated in 1939 at the Swiss National Exhibition in Zurich .

Crisis in World War II

After the beginning of the Second World War , rehearsal work became increasingly difficult, so that in 1940 the rehearsal location was changed again, first to the Music Academy of the City of Basel and then to the children's home of the Basel Mission . Since Ulbrich did active service in the military until July 1940, Emil Herrmann and Helene Sandreuter were entrusted with the interim choir direction, which resulted in the temporary suspension of voice training. The number of singers had meanwhile shrunk to 25. Ulbrich, who was still on standby, worked out a Christmas liturgy with the choir. In 1941 a joint performance with the Schola Cantorum took place. In the same year Ernst Lipp died, who had played a key role in the development of the choir since it was founded. In 1942 and 1943, the usually great interest of newcomers was very low, so that the choir had only 16 singers until May 1943, but their quality was high enough to give a successful concert with the Schola Cantorum in the Barfüsserkirche . By 1944 there were at least 30 singers in the choir. In May 1945 the choir organized a thanksgiving service at the end of the war.

Extension and last years of Ulbrich

In the years after the war, the number of singers gradually increased again. The Ulbrich-Sandreuter couple were able to devote themselves fully to the singing boys again. In 1945 the choir and the Bach Choir premiered the oratorio Our Father by Walter Müller von Kulm . In 1949 the choir took part in the 17th Kirchgesangstag of the Swiss Church Choral Association . In 1950, pastor Alfred Studer replaced Courvoisier as president. In the same year the choir returned to its original rehearsal location, the Bischofshof, where the KKB still rehearses today.

In 1952, the 25th anniversary was celebrated with a festive service on June 22nd in Münster. The composer Rudolf Moser presented the choir with his composition of the 29th Psalm. For the first time, male voices were used again, former singing boys who made themselves available. The recruitment for new singers was carried out for the first time into the second primary class, as there was great competition with the boy scouts and the Hope League. In 1956 there was another change of president; Studer resigned because of moving and gave it to the composer Rudolf Moser. In 1959, contemporary works from a concert with the organist Hans Balmer were recorded on Swiss radio.

In 1958 the male voices were provisionally approved for the singing boys; the KUBG approved a corresponding pilot test. A name change was also discussed, but was postponed until after the pilot phase. The first rehearsal with eight male voices took place on August 23, 1958, and as early as January 1959 Ulbrich announced that the innovation would hold up. However, since no tenors could be found until 1962, the lowest boy's voices and those with voiceless voices were used as tenors. In 1959 the name change, which had already been discussed, took place: from now on the choir was called Evangelische Kantorei Basel and was now directly subordinate to the church council.

In 1960 President Moser's accidental death shook the choir; his successor was Rudolf Massini . In the 1960s, Ulbrich relinquished part of the responsibility for the first time: his wife Helene Sandreuter and his son Markus Ulbrich as well as Kurt Tschirren, who worked in administration, became his assistants in the choir direction, and Markus Ulbrich and Tschirren also taught courses in the school department .

In 1967, the mutant group, a group of voice-impaired singers, came together in order to make good use of the phase of voice breakage in the form of voice training and literary studies, which was previously required for a forced break, and to better prepare for the male voices. From 1967 onwards, advertising campaigns were also carried out in all primary classes. In 1968 the older singers (possibly inspired by the 1968 movement ) demanded a say in the working committee, which they were finally granted.

Foundation of an association

In February 1970, Hermann Ulbrich and Helene Sandreuter announced their resignation from the choir direction at the end of June 1970. The choir management was taken over by his son Markus and two other former singing boys, Kurt Tschirren and Werner Schniepper. Markus Ulbrich then placed a musical focus on Heinrich Schütz with the performance of his works The Seven Words of Jesus Christ on the Cross (1971), St. John Passion (1972) and Resurrection History (1974). Tschirren retired in 1972, whereupon Schniepper took over his work area and Hans Peter Oppliger that of Schniepper.

Between 1970 and 1972 there was intense discussion about how the choir should legally appear in the future. However, various options, including connection to the YMCA , were viewed as unfavorable. Finally, it was decided to found an independent association and to break away from the church council. The founding meeting took place on February 2, 1972 and included a. also the election of Max Huldi as president to replace the resigned Massini. Another name change was decided at the parents 'meeting, which is suitable for the emerging ecumenical movement and also reflects the character of a boys' choir despite the male voices. With the name Knabenkantorei Basel (KKB) these goals were fulfilled.

As a result, the KKB experienced a strong upswing: as an association, you could ask for financial support from various institutions; In addition, many members and sponsors contributed to the improved financial situation, which u. a. more qualified training staff could be employed. The public relations work was strengthened and improved and the choir received a signet that emerged from an advertised competition. In summer 1973, the first concert tour was the Bernese Oberland performed and the first record with choral and organ works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was added, followed in 1974 by the organist Hans Peter Aeschlimann a trip to the Netherlands and the inclusion of KKB as a patron member of the society for the good and the common good . The first television recordings were made in 1975 and 1976 by Südwestrundfunk .

In 1974 the Gregorian group was founded, which is a church music training for older active singers as well as for alumni. Furthermore, Ulbrich pushed for the improvement of the training: The bassist Stefan Kramp could be engaged in the vocal training , and the school department was converted into today's "basic course".

Choir founder Hermann Ulbrich died in November 1980 at the age of 77. Markus Ulbrich resigned at the end of the year for professional and personal reasons. For the first time, a commission was formed to find a new choir director. In the end, the choice remained between the German cantor Klaus Knall and the director of the Muttenz youth music school, Beat Raaflaub . The commission unanimously decided in favor of Knall, who took over the choir direction from 1981.

Transitional phase and change of conductor

When Knall took office, Schniepper resigned as administrative manager. In 1982 KKB got into major financial difficulties; the canton of Basel-Stadt cut the subsidies to the KKB. In addition, Klaus Knall resigned at the end of the year for professional reasons and lack of time. Beat Raaflaub , who lost to Knall as an applicant two years earlier, became the new musical director. In 1983 and 1984, various members of the association resigned, so that the association had a new management structure: the board was now placed directly in front of the choir. In 1984, Gerhard Winkler took the place of the resigned President Max Huldi. In December, was Saint Nicholas Cantata by Benjamin Britten four listed in the Basel Martin Church and in Reinach, and in June 1985, the KKB realized the first German gramophone recording of Britten's cantata.

Raaflaub era

In September 1986, boy soloists from the KKB appeared for the first time in the context of the Magic Flute productions at the Basel Theater , and later also in Bern and Freiburg im Breisgau . From October 13 to 17, the boys' voices took part in the Festival of European Music in Berlin in Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony under Roland Bader ; in November the general choir performed Mozart's Requiem and his funerary music.

In 1987 the 60th anniversary was extensively celebrated: on January 10th the Vienna Boys' Choir sang a guest concert with the KKB in the sold out city ​​casino . At the end of February the choir was invited to the Festival International de Chant Choral in Nantes . On May 16 and 17 the big anniversary festival weekend took place with choirs from all over Europe and over 600 participants who sang in the Basel region. This festival weekend can be seen as a pilot project of the EJCF , which would take place for the first time in 1992. In August the KKB performed at the Lucerne International Music Festival and took part in Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms . As a conclusion, an anniversary trip to the Bernese Oberland took place in October in memory of the first concert tour .

In November 1988, were Magnificat by CPE Bach , and Mozart's Coronation Mass brought to the stage. In 1990 the KKB took part in the Kleinbasler Charivari , and the boys' voices also appeared at the Basel Theater in Alban Berg's Wozzeck and at the Münster in Frank Martin's Dance of Death . In May 1991, the Knabenkantorei sang at the inaugural meeting of the 700-year anniversary session in Bern Federal Palace before the Federal Federal Assembly . At the beginning of October, a concert tour to Saint Petersburg was carried out according to plan, although communist putschists wanted to overthrow Gorbachev only weeks earlier .

In 1992, the planned three-week concert tour to the USA suffered a financial setback due to the withdrawal of two major sponsors and had to be canceled for the time being. As a result, the annual general meeting approved the creation of a financial reservoir independent of the economic cycle in the form of a concert travel foundation. The first European Youth Choir Festival (EJCF) took place in May ; the KKB, with Winkler as managing director and Raaflaub as musical advisory board, played a key role in the implementation. In 1993 the boys' voices took part in over 40 opera performances ( Puccini's Tosca and Boitos Mefistofele ) at the Basel Theater. In May, the USA concert tour, shortened to one week and accompanied by the Basel government councilor Hans-Rudolf Striebel , could still be carried out. For the first time, KKB concerts took place outside Europe (including New York City , Philadelphia ).

In March 1994 the KKB performed Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Markus Passion, which was only rediscovered in 1985, and made it as the world's first sound recordings; the double CD was released on the Ars Musici label . In April Gerhard Winkler resigned as president, his successor was Jürg Rauschenbach . In 1995 the Knabenkantorei gave concerts on their Germany tour in the cities of Ulm , Wiesbaden , Göttingen , Hanover and Frankfurt am Main ; the choir also contributed to the second edition of the EJCF. In 1996 a concert tour through Finland and Estonia followed by a choir camp near Turku .

In 1997 the Knabenkantorei celebrated its 70th anniversary with the world premiere of Joseph Fitzmartin's cantata Ich would like to be a clown (text by Hanns Dieter Hüsch ) in March together with the Basler Knabenmusik . A festive service was held in the Münster in April, and in May the choir celebrated a youth cultural gala in the Stadtcasino Basel together with other young artists from the region. As a conclusion, three sold-out performances of Joseph Haydn's Die Jahreszeiten took place in November . In the same year the deputy conductor Rolf Herter resigned; for him came the German Johannes Tolle . The anniversary concert tour took place in February 1998 and took the KKB through South Africa for two weeks . In May the choir took part in the EJCF once more. In October, Raaflaub received the Bumberniggel Prize from the Swiss Bank Association's Jubilee Foundation .

Trip to Brazil and Raaflaub's last years

In 1999 a concert tour through the Czech Republic followed, with performances in Brno , Königgrätz , Pardubitz and Prague , and in December performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio . In June 2000 In autumn the choir toured the German cities of Berlin (with a performance in the Berlin Cathedral ) and Potsdam as well as the Polish Posen and performed Mendelssohn's Elias at the end of the year . On January 11, 2001, the Knabenkantorei and 14 other choirs took part in a thousand-member performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony ( Symphony of a Thousand ) at the Basel Exhibition Center . Johannes Tolle resigned as vice conductor, he was replaced by Jürg Siegrist, a former choir member. In September the boys' voices took part in Mahler's Third Symphony during a Swiss concert series ; further engagements at the Lucerne Festival followed in the following years. At the end of the year, Britten's St. Nicholas cantata was performed together with the St. Arbogast Choir.

In summer 2002, the 75th anniversary was celebrated with a three-week concert tour through Brazil . The trip to Brazil is considered the longest and most successful concert tour in choral history; the KKB thrilled in 13 cities and achieved an audience in the double-digit million range when it appeared in the city of Riversul , which was broadcast nationwide on television. In the fall they moved for ten days for the first time in the former Maloja Palace in Maloja into the choir camp ; Originally planned as a one-off camp, the KKB withdrew to Maloja in autumn camp by 2007. In December 2002, on its 75th birthday, the KKB performed the Coronation Anthems and the Chichester Psalms choreographed by Parwin Hadinia in the Basel Theater. The success was so great that an additional concert in shipbuilding in Zurich followed in June 2003 .

At the end of 2002, Jürg Rauschenbach, who played a key role in the implementation and success of the major concert tours to South Africa and Brazil, resigned as President. The banker Kuno Hämisegger was chosen as his successor . In addition, Vice-Conductor Rolf Herter, who resigned in 1997, returned and since then has been Vice-Director together with Siegrist. In 2003 the KKB took part in the 1st International Choir Festival Venezia in Musica in Venice and Jesolo and performed Bach's St. John Passion at Easter 2004 . A concert tour through Bulgaria took place in May 2005 , and the choir was the first foreign choir to perform at the Orthodox Easter celebrations in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia . In January and April of the same year was Petite Messe Solennelle by Gioacchino Rossini in the original version brought to the stage. In December 2005, the renewed performance went Saint Nicolas -Kantate by Britten and the Cantate de Noël by Arthur Honegger along with the Mädchenkantorei Basel across the stage. A three-year autumn concert tour through Germany took the KKB to Calw , Limburg , Göttingen and Rotterdam ( Netherlands ) in 2004 , to Köllerbach , Neuhof (near Fulda) , Wiesbaden , Wirges and Luxemburg , and in 2007 to Frankfurt (Oder) , Saalfeld , Jena and Sondershausen .

Markus Teutschbein

After the annual concerts, Raaflaub announced his resignation in February 2007. As in 1980, a search committee was formed. The choice fell on Markus Teutschbein . Raaflaub's work as a choir director ended with two sold-out performances of Mendelssohn Bartholdy's oratorio Paulus . During the months immediately after Raaflaub's resignation, Vice Conductor Herter partially led the choir, while Teutschbein was still in Germany.

From February 2007 Teutschbein was musical director of the KKB and, with her, celebrated the sixth edition of the EJCF in May 2007 in Basel as the first joint project. In September they performed at the Basel Youth Culture Festival and at The Glue's Lala Blabla Pomme d'Adam Festival . In January 2008, Handel's Messiah was performed in the original English language together with the Bern Friday Academy ; a concert tour to Hungary followed in March with two more Messiah concerts, including a. in the Matthias Church of Budapest . In autumn the boys' voices took part in an open-air production of Orff's Carmina Burana . In October 2008 the male voices performed the Requiem in D minor by Luigi Cherubini, composed only for male choir, in the Basel Minster and in the music hall of the Stadtcasino Basel with the Collegium Musicum orchestra ; The concert was framed by Psalm 150 by César Franck and the Te Deum by Georges Bizet .

During the Passion of 2009, Bach's St. John Passion was performed three times in March ; After two concerts in Basel Minster and the Arlesheim Cathedral , the KKB opened the 37th summer concert in the Thalbürgel monastery church near Jena . A concert tour to France took place in the early summer of 2009 . The choir gave concerts in the cathedral of Lyon a . a. together with the Petits Chanteurs de Saint-Marc (known from the film Les Choristes ) and gave other concerts in Nîmes , Carpentras and Besançon . Shortly thereafter, the KKB appeared in three joint concerts with the Freiburg Cathedral Boys' Choir  and the Chœur de Garçons de Mulhouse .

In 2011, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem was performed, followed by Beethoven's C major Mass in 2012 . In 2014 the Knabenkantorei Basel performed the late version of the St. Mark Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach, reconstructed by Alexander Grychtolik . In the following year several concerts with the oratorio Elias by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy took place.

Rolf Herter led the choir on an interim basis from autumn 2016 to summer 2017. In the summer of 2017 Oliver Rudin took over the direction of the choir.

Partnerships

In addition to the sporadic collaboration with the Basel Theater and various orchestras such as the Basel Symphony Orchestra , the Basel Chamber Orchestra and the Basel Sinfonietta, as well as external ensembles such as the Bern Friday Academy and with various guest choirs, there has been regular collaboration with the Basel Girls' Choir in the past. In 2007, a collaboration with the Collegium Musicum Basel orchestra was agreed, which was mutually dissolved in 2009.

Trivia

The a cappella music group The Glue and the Männerstimmen Basel choir , both from Basel, were founded by former singers of the choir and largely consist of them.

Discography

LPs

  • 1973: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Choir and Organ Works. ( Pelca , PSR 40 585; out of print)
  • 1976: Baroque Christmas carols: a child born in Bethlehem. (Self-published by KKB)
  • 1977: Secular Renaissance songs : Now start singing a good song. (Pelca, PSR 40 617)
  • 1979: Heinrich Schütz: Musical Exequies and Psalm 136. ( EMI , 065-03 828)
  • 1980: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas No. 82a and No. 161. (EMI, 065-43 076)
  • 1980: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas No. 179 and No. 177. (EMI, 065-43 077)
  • 1985: Benjamin Britten: St. Nicholas cantata. (Self-published by KKB, CS 558-3)

MCs

  • 1978: Bach / Brahms / Reger: Spiritual Motets. (Self-published by KKB, EDT 80031; out of print)
  • 1985: various composers: Knabenkantorei in concert. (Self-published by KKB, AZ 1014 MC; out of print)
  • 1989: various composers: music for Christmas - Christmas carols and motets. (Self-published by KKB)
  • 1992: various composers: motets by great masters / Swiss folk song cantata. (Self-published by KKB)

CDs

  • 1989: various composers: music for Christmas - Christmas carols and motets. (Self-published by KKB)
  • 1992: various composers: motets by great masters / Swiss folk song cantata. (Self-published by KKB)
  • 1994: C. Ph. E. Bach: Markuspassion. ( Ars Musici )
  • 1994: Mendelssohn / Rheinberger: Psalm 95 and Christmas cantata. (Self-published by KKB)
  • 1996: Martin / Beethoven: In Terra Pax and Peace Cantata. (Self-published, KKB-007)
  • 1997: various composers: sacred vocal music. (Self-published, KKB-008)
  • 1999: Telemann / Krebs / Bach / Dudli: A great pleasure. (Self-published, KKB-009)
  • 2000: various composers: highlights. (Self-published, KKB-010)
  • 2000: various composers: Spirituals + Lieder + Songs. (Self-published, KKB-011)
  • 2000: Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio I, IV – VI. (Self-published, KKB-012)
  • 2001: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Elias. (Self-published, KKB-013)
  • 2005: various composers: tour program 2005. (self-published, KKB-014)
  • 2010: various composers: SILENTIUM! (Self-published)
  • 2015: Johann Sebastian Bach: Markus Passion. Late version from 1744, reconstruction: Alexander F. Grychtolik. (Rondeau Production)

Major concerts since 1997

Conductors

President

Well-known alumni

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Theater im Münster" - The great theater in and about the Münster, Reformed Church Basel-Stadt. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .