Reger choir
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| Seat: | Wiesbaden / Germany |
| Carrier: | St. Boniface |
| Founding: | 1985 |
| Genus: | mixed choir |
| Founder: | Gabriel Dessauer |
| Head : | Gabriel Dessauer |
| Voices : | 50 ( SATB ) |
| Website : | http://www.bonimusik.de/regerchor.html |
The Reger Choir is a project choir that was founded by Gabriel Dessauer in Wiesbaden in 1985 and has been directed by him ever since. Since 2001 it has been expanded to the Reger-Chor-International in collaboration with Ignace Michiels , organist of the Sint-Salvatorskathedraal in Bruges , to perform an annual concert of mostly sacred, rarely performed music for choir and organ both in Germany and in Belgium. Concerts take place regularly in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden and in the Cathedral of Bruges, irregularly also in other churches of the two countries and in the Concertgebouw (concert hall) Bruges.
history
Gabriel Dessauer (born 1955) has been cantor at St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden since 1981 . In 1985 he called choristers together to perform a single work, the Hebbel Requiem by Max Reger in the organ version by the Munich organist and composer Max Beckschäfer . The concert on October 16, 1985 was part of the Wiesbaden International Organ Concerts , which also presented organists such as Roger Fisher, Judit Hajdók and Maurice Clerc on the Walcker organ of the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden, which Reger himself had played during his time in Wiesbaden from 1891 . Gabriel Dessauer conducted, Beckschäfer was the organist. The project is considered to be the foundation of the Reger Choir.
It got its name in 1988 when the next project was dedicated to the German premiere of Joseph Jongen's Missa op. 111 for choir, brass and organ, which was performed in the collegiate church in Aschaffenburg and in St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden. Later projects included one of the first performances in Germany of John Rutter's Requiem in 1990 , recorded live on the Reger Choir's first CD .
In 2001 an international collaboration began with the organist Ignace Michiels , which brings together roughly the same number of choristers from Flanders and the Rhine-Main area to perform an annual concert in Germany and Belgium.
Other Projects
- 1989
- Church music from England: Henry Purcell : Anthems Remember not, Lord, our Offences , Hear my prayer, O Lord , Herbert Howells : Magnificat for St. Pauls , Benjamin Britten : Te Deum in C , Herbert Sumsion : In Exile
- Bach: Missa in G in St. Bonifatius, Marburg Chamber Orchestra
- 1990
- 1992
- Maurice Duruflé : Requiem in the organ version, Laetititia Henke-Cropp (alto) and Petra Morath (organ)
- 1998
- Elgar : From the Bavarian Highlands op.27
- Frederick Delius : to support of a Summer Night on the Water
- John Rutter : Five Childhood Lyrics
- Johannes Brahms : Gypsy songs op.103
- 2001
- William Lloyd Webber : Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae
- Jules Van Nuffel : Dominus regnavit
- Reger: Hebbel Requiem
- 2002
- JOSEPH RYELANDT : Missa quatuor vocibus mixtis cum organo op 84th
- Zoltán Kodály : Laudes organi
- 2003
- Reger: The 100th Psalm , organ version by François Callebout
- 2004
- Van Nuffel: Works for choir and organ, including In convertendo Dominus
- 2006
- Herbert Howells : Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Gloucester)
- Herbert Sumsion : They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships , In Exile
- Andrew Carter : Benedicite (three movements), concerts in the Leonhardskirche (Frankfurt) and in St. Bonifatius
- Bach: Christmas Oratorio , in the Concertgebouw in Bruges, conductor: Ignace Michiels
- 2007
- JOSEPH RYELANDT : Missa six vocibus op 111th
- Kurt Hessenberg : O Lord, make me an instrument of your peace op. 37/1, in St. Bonifatius and Sint-Pieters in Oostkamp
- 2008
- Johannes Brahms : Three Motets op. 110, Geistliches Lied op. 30, Fest- und Gedenksprüche op. 109, in St. Bonifatius and in the Heilig Hart Kerk in Knokke .
- 2009
- Rupert Lang : Earth teach me on words of the Ute Indians
- Morten Lauridsen : O magnum mysterium
- Eric Whitacre : Lux Aurumque
- Moses Hogan : Elijah Rock and Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
- 2010 Festival concert 25 years of the Reger Choir
- Bach: Final chorus from the congratulatory cantata BWV 134a
- Van Nuffel: In convertendo Dominus
- Ryelandt: Gloria from the Missa op.84
- Reger: Hebbel Requiem
- 2011
- Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem
- 2012
- Bach: The spirit helps our weaknesses (BWV 226)
- Gabriel Fauré ': Requiem
- 2015
- Bach: Mass 1733 (BWV 232 I)
- 2016
- Van Nuffel: Laetatus sum
- Joseph Ryelandt : Panem de coelo.
- Reger: The 100th Psalm
Recordings
- John Rutter : Requiem , motets by Reger, Julius Reubke : organ sonata (Psalm 94) in C minor , Reger choir, Monika Fuhrmann (soprano), instrumentalists, organ (Rutter): Petra Morath , organ (Reubke) and direction: Gabriel Dessauer (1990, live in St. Bonifatius Wiesbaden)
- Max Reger : Hebbel-Requiem , organ works, Reger-Chor-International, organ: Ignace Michiels , conductor: Gabriel Dessauer (2001, live in St. Bonifatius Wiesbaden)
- Max Reger : The 100th Psalm , Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in E minor, op. 127, Reger-Chor-International. ( Memento from August 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Organ: Ignace Michiels , Conductor: Gabriel Dessauer (2003, live in St. Bonifatius Wiesbaden)
Web links
- Gabriel Dessauer on the website Kirchenmusik in St. Bonifatius Wiesbaden ( Memento from March 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Organ of St. Bonifatius Wiesbaden on the website Kirchenmusik in St. Bonifatius Wiesbaden
- Organ of the Marktkirche Wiesbaden on the website of the Marktkirche Wiesbaden
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Reger Compositions ( German ) maxreger.de. 2010. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 10, 2010.
- ↑ Max Reger Chronology 1892 . Max Reger Institute. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ↑ a b Richard Hoernicke: When friends make music . Wiesbadener Tagblatt . Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved on August 12, 2010.
- ↑ Prestigieus oratorio voor Brugse kansarmen . ( Memento of October 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Het Nieuwsblad of November 18, 2006 (Flemish).
- ^ Richard Hörnicke: Successful finale of the music weeks . General newspaper. August 31, 2010. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
- ^ Richard Hoernicke: Certainly ecclesiastical / Brahms Requiem performance in St. Bonifatius . Wiesbadener Tagblatt. November 12, 2010. Retrieved November 14, 2010.
- ↑ Requiem Opus 48 - Gabriel Fauré / Zaterdag 27 oct ( Flemish ) De Standaard. Retrieved on October 29, 2012. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Reger-Chor-International in the Bonifatiuskirche Wiesbaden . Wiesbadener Tagblatt. November 13, 2012. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013. Retrieved on November 13, 2012.
- ^ Program of the 5th Organ Winter Games in St. Bonifatius ( German ) Wiesbadener Tagblatt . January 5, 2015. Accessed January 24, 2015.
- ↑ Gabriel Dessauer : 100th anniversary of the death of Max Reger / An appreciation from the perspective of the Wiesbaden organist Gabriel Dessauer ( German ) Wiesbadener Tagblatt . May 10, 2016. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
- ↑ Zomerconcert / Zaterdag 27 August 2016 ( Flemish ). St. Salvator's Cathedral , 2016 (Retrieved August 27, 2016).
