Mendelssohn Choir Hamburg
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| Seat: | Hamburg / Germany |
| Founding: | 1997 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Founder: | Hans-Joachim Lustig |
| Head : | Almut Stümke |
| Voices : | 80 (SATB) |
| Website : | http://www.mendelssohnchor-hamburg.de |
The Mendelssohn Choir Hamburg was founded in 1997 and is registered as a non-profit association. The choir is financed from membership fees without outside help. It was named after the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . A musical focus of the Mendelssohn Choir Hamburg is on classical-romantic oratorios. In alternation with the large choir and orchestral works, the choir also studies music from other epochs and in smaller ensembles (without orchestra). In addition, the choir has already participated in operas twice, musically and scenically, e.g. B. at the turn of the year 2006/2007 in an opera project at the Hamburg University of Music.
The choir was founded by Hans-Joachim Lustig , and Almut Stümke has been his successor as choir director since 2002 .
Repertoire / program
- 2012 WA Mozart , Requiem / Peter Heeren , The Use of Life (contemporary setting of an ode by Anakreon by Peter Heeren, Marne)
- 2012 “Ohne Sinn Und VerDN” - Choral music meets lyric (sung and spoken texts by Joachim Ringelnatz and Morgenstern )
- 2011 Carl Orff , Carmina Burana
- 2010–2011 “Rausch” - choral music meets poetry
- 2010 Johann Sebastian Bach - Christmas Oratorio
- 2009 Performances and musical design of church services and church evening music, including the Mendelssohn motets Psalm 2 (Why do the Gentiles rage) , Psalm 100 ( Shout to the Lord all the world ) and Psalm 91 (because he has commanded his angels) . Paul Oratorio in October.
- 2008 A cappella program “A matter of the heart” - choral music meets poetry: the romantic love song waltzes by Johannes Brahms , excerpts from the “Canti d'amor” by Bernard Rands .
- 2007 Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and “Canticles of Light” by Bob Chilcott ; opera project “Die Flut” by Boris Blacher in cooperation with the Hamburg University of Music.
- 2006 Erich Kästner “The 13 Months”, choral songs based on texts by Kästner
- 2005 participation in the opera performance of Orpheus and Eurydike von ( Christoph Willibald Gluck ) at the Musikhochschule Hamburg; Fanny Hensel “Hymn of Praise” and “Oratorio based on pictures from the Bible”; “Berliner Messe” by Arvo Pärt
- 2004 together with the Johanneskantorei Norderstedt and the Hamburg Conservatory: Elias von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ; “Liebesliederwalzer” by Johannes Brahms .