Rheingau Kantorei
Rheingauer Kantorei , now Neue Rheingauer Kantorei , is a mixed choir of the deanery Wiesbaden-Rheingau (now: deanery Rheingau-Taunus) of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau , which mainly performs sacred music in church services and concerts.
history
Choir director Frank Stähle
The choir was founded in 1977 by Frank Stähle as a choir of the Evangelical Dean's Office Wiesbaden-Rheingau from a merger of the choir of the Protestant community in Geisenheim and singers from Wiesbaden. The task of the choir is to participate in church services in the region and to organize oratorio concerts . Important performance venues were initially the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden and the Rheingau Cathedral in Geisenheim. The two groups rehearsed separately and performed together.
In 1978 the choir performed Handel's Messiah in the Rheingau Cathedral and the Luther Church in Wiesbaden, and A German Requiem by Brahms in Geisenheim and the Marktkirche.
In 1979 Bach's St. Matthew Passion was performed in St. Bonifatius in Wiesbaden and in Worms , in collaboration with the Wormser Kurrende . Mendelssohn's Elias was performed with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra , in Geisenheim and in the Marktkirche.
In 1980 the Geisenheim group performed Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri alone in Geisenheim. The entire choir sang Honegger's King David in the Marktkirche, with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the soloists Klesie Kelly, Claudia Eder as the young David and the witch of Endor and Gerd Nienstedt as the speaker.
A concert on June 13, 1981 combined Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli , sung by selected voices under the direction of the assistant conductor Horst Werner, and Bruckner's Mass No. 2 in E minor for eight-part choir and wind instruments. On November 21, 1981, the choir performed Bach's B minor Mass in the Marktkirche as part of the Fourth Wiesbaden Bach Weeks , which was organized by Martin Lutz .
Choir director Horst Werner
Steels, who became director of Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt handed the choir over to Horst Werner in 1982, who had studied with Helmuth Rilling at the Frankfurt University of Music . He was the first to conduct Haydn's harmony mass and Bach's cantata Wachet! pray! pray! watch! , with Christoph Prégardien as a soloist. In 1983 he combined some of the Psalms of David von Schütz with Mozart's Vesperae de Dominica . In a second concert, the choir sang Schubert's Mass No. 6 in E flat major.
In 1985 the choir performed Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater and Leoš Janáček's Glagolitic Mass with the organist Elisabeth Maranca and the South Westphalian Philharmonic .
In 1986 the choir made use of the numerous galleries of the Marktkirche to sing various versions of the Magnificat , including some multi-choral works. This was followed by a concert with Mozart's Requiem with the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra .
In 1987 the choir sang the second version of Bach's St. John Passion . A second concert was dedicated to César Franck's Mass in A major, and a third to Bruckner's Mass No. 3 in F minor , again with the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra.
Choir director Tassilo Schlenther / "Neue Rheingauer Kantorei"
A new choir, which built on the tradition, was founded in 2002 by Tassilo Schlenther, who again included the choir of the Protestant community in Geisenheim. In addition to the Rheingau Cathedral, the concert venues included the basilica of Johannisberg Castle , the Mittelheim basilica , the Protestant church in Geisenheim and the Johanneskirche in Erbach.
In 2009 the “Neue Rheingauer Kantorei” performed Haydn's Creation with the soloists Elisabeth Scholl , Daniel Sans and Andreas Pruys . The choir took part in a television portrait of the Rheingau by Günter Wewel on Hessischer Rundfunk . EA in Geisenheim was dedicated to contemporary Swedish music, with works by, among others, Ola Gjeilo and Knut Nystedt . In the same year, Verdi's Requiem in the Geisenheim Cathedral followed.
Web links
- Frank Steels Dr. Hoch's Conservatory
- Horst Werner corodelcastello.de
- New Rheingau Cantorei
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Archive Rheingauer Kantorei . Rheingau Kantorei, 1985.
- ↑ Arthur Honegger: King David . Marktkirche, Wiesbaden, 1980.
- ^ Johann Sebastian Bach: High Mass in B minor . Fourth Wiesbaden Bach Weeks , November 21, 1981.
- ↑ Horst Werner / Theory . Dr. Hoch's Conservatory . 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
- ↑ Helmut Hampel: Musical remembrance of the dead in cleared fog veils . In: Wiesbadener Kurier , November 25, 1986. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
- ↑ Helmut Hampel: Well-known in a less common version . In: Wiesbadener Kurier , March 24, 1987. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
- ↑ a b Rheingau Kantorei enthusiastically celebrated for their "creation" . Rheingau echo. May 20, 2009. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
- ↑ Brilliant music in the Passion time / concert by the "Neue Rheingauer Kantorei" was a musical experience . Rheingau echo. February 25, 2014. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
- ↑ a b Wie im Himmel / Neue Rheingauer Kantorei presented modern choral music from Scandinavia . Rheingau echo. February 13, 2009. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
- ↑ Not a beautiful country . ARD . Retrieved July 27, 2014.
- ↑ Manuel Wenda: Neue Rheingauer Kantorei presents Verdi Requiem in the Geisenheim Cathedral . Wiesbaden courier . November 24, 2014. Retrieved November 8, 2016.