Renner Ensemble Regensburg
The Renner Ensemble Regensburg (also known as the Renner Ensemble ) is a vocal ensemble from Regensburg . It is named after the former Regensburg cathedral organist and composer Joseph Renner jun. (1868-1934). The repertoire includes male choir works from the Middle Ages through Renaissance and Romanticism to the experimental vocal avant-garde of the present.
history
The Renner Ensemble Regensburg was founded in 1987 by Bernd Englbrecht . The former and currently active members of the ensemble, which always includes around 15 to 20 singers, are predominantly former Regensburg cathedral sparrows .
Englbrecht directed the Renner Ensemble until September 2003; Jörg Genslein then took on this task. Since 2011 the ensemble has been directed by Hans Pritschet , who is also a lecturer in the music education department at the University of Regensburg . All three were formerly members of the Regensburger Domspatzen - Englbrecht from 1978 to 1987, Genslein from 1988 to 1998 and Pritschet from 1968 to 1977.
Concert tours have taken the choir to Sweden , France , Italy , Austria , Spain , Latvia , Taiwan , Japan , Singapore , the Philippines , Uruguay , Argentina and most recently to Great Britain .
In addition to numerous live performances and CD productions, the Renner Ensemble has recorded for the Bavarian radio , the Swedish, Latvian and Hessian radio as well as for the German radio, as well as for the Bavarian and Philippine television.
successes
The Renner Ensemble also successfully participated in various national and international choir competitions. The ensemble won first prize in the following competitions:
- 3rd German Choir Competition in Stuttgart (1990)
- BBC International Choir Competition Let the Peoples Sing (1991)
- 1st international competition for vocal ensembles in Korntal-Münchingen (1992), also awarded as the best ensemble of the entire competition
- 27th choir competition in Tolosa / Spain (1995)
- 4th International Choir Competition Trelew / Argentina (1999)
At the 2nd International Chamber Choir Competition in Marktoberdorf in 1991, the Renner Ensemble received second prize.
At the 7th Cornwall International Male Voice Choral Festival 2015 the ensemble received third prize.
Awards
- 1996: Award from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
- 2000: Culture Prize of the City of Regensburg
- 2005: Culture Prize of the Upper Palatinate District in the Choir category
- 2018: Opus Klassik in the category choral work recording of the year for the CD War no more
Discography (selection)
- Richard Strauss : Male Choir Works , Ars Production, 1993
- Christmas Collection , Ars Production, 1994
- Franz Schubert : Male Choir Works , Ars Production, 1996
- Schumann , Mendelssohn : Male Choir Works , Ars Production, 1999
- ... what the heart is hardly aware of ... - New music for male voices a cappella, Ars production, 2003
- ... angels wave through the grain ... (compositions by Max Reger and Hugo Wolf ), Ars Produktion, 2007
- Franz Liszt and his time (compositions by Gioachino Rossini , Giuseppe Verdi , Peter Cornelius , Hector Berlioz and Franz Liszt), Ars Produktion, 2016
- War No More - men's choir works on war and peace (compositions by Clément Janequin , Edward MacDowell , Wilhelm Kienzl , Josef Gabriel Rheinberger , John Lennon and others), Ars Produktion, 2018
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Ermannsreiter, Ludwig Zehetner : Festschrift 50 years music high school of the Regensburger Domspatzen 1948-1998
- ↑ Renner-Ensemble was again the hit on www.mittelbayerische.de, December 29, 2013
- ^ Wolfgang Wagner: Ensembles of former Domspatzen: Renner-Ensemble Regensburg , in: Festschrift 50 years music high school of Regensburger Domspatzen 1948-1998
- ↑ Culture Prize of the Upper Palatinate District: The Prize Winners 2000–… ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Upper Palatinate district.
- ↑ opusklassik.de
