Bach Choir Salzburg

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Bach Choir Salzburg

The Salzburg Bach Choir is a choir from the city ​​of Salzburg .

General

His repertoire includes chamber music as well as large choral orchestral works from all epochs of music history. The choir is characterized by a high degree of flexibility, both in terms of its line-up and overall choral sound.

history

Founded in 1983 by Albert Hartinger as a choir of the Salzburg Bach Society , the Salzburg Bach Choir has been operating independently since 1988. In 1988 it was also founded as a non-profit association . Under its first artistic director, Howard Arman , the choir established itself as an internationally recognized ensemble. Alois Glaßner has been artistic director of the Salzburg Bach Choir since 2003 .

activity

Appearances

The Salzburg Bach Choir performs regularly at the International Mozart Week , the Salzburg Festival at Easter, Whitsun and in summer as well as the Salzburg Cultural Association and has been a guest of the Salzburg Bach Society several times . In addition, the choir is often invited to guest performances in other European countries. These took him to Greece (Megaron Athens), Romania (Enescu-Festival Bucharest), the Netherlands (Concertgebouw Amsterdam), Germany (including Konzerthaus Berlin , Handel Festival Halle and Göttingen, Musikfest Bremen, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden , Rosengarten Mannheim) , Mozart Festival Würzburg ), to Turkey (cultural center Lütfi-Kirdar Istanbul), to Spain (Cervantes Theater and Cathedral of Málaga), France, Italy and Switzerland. In March 2014, the choir performed for the first time as a guest of the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein and in the Festspielhaus St. Pölten. In 2016 the Bach Choir was heard for the first time at the Klosterneuburg Easter Concert with Handel's Messiah together with the Bach Consort Vienna under Rubén Dubrovsky . This concert as well as the Easter concert Klosterneuburg 2017 with music by Antonio Vivaldi was broadcast internationally as a TV production.

Fixed points in the concert year of the Salzburg Bach Choir are the traditional performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Mass in C minor KV 417 during the Salzburg Festival and his Requiem in D minor KV 626 as part of the Dialoge Festival of the International Mozarteum Foundation on the anniversary of Mozart's death on May 5. December. During this festival, the choir was commissioned several times to perform - some of them premieres - of contemporary works. As part of the International Mozart Week, the Salzburg Bach Choir took part in performances of Mozart's Davide penitente KV 469 2015 and Requiem in D minor KV 626 2017 together with the Musiciens du Louvre and the Académie équestre du Versailles . In 2019, Thamos, King in Egypt, was staged in the Felsenreitschule by the Spanish artist collective La Fura dels Baus .

From 2010 to 2018, the Salzburg Bach Choir performed several concerts in the Raiffeisen Klassik Vokal a cappella series in the province of Salzburg every autumn . Works from all epochs of music up to those of living composers were performed under an annually changing theme. In December 2014, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the Salzburg Bach Choir presented the CD pater noster that emerged from this series . The CD Rejoice followed in 2018 with works for choir and organ, which was awarded the Ö1 Pasticcio Prize . In 2019 the Salzburg Bach Choir founded its own concert series under the title "Chorage®" with three performances a year, which focus on choral music.

Artistic collaborations

Grosses Festspielhaus : Messiah with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, conducted by Matthew Halls

The Salzburg Bach Choir regularly performs with internationally renowned orchestras: Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg , Camerata Salzburg , Freiburg Baroque Orchestra , Vienna Philharmonic , Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble. The choir worked with conductors such as Sir Roger Norrington , Leopold Hager , Michael Gielen , Hans Graf , Marc Minkowski , Yannick Nézet-Séguin , Trevor Pinnock , Kirill Petrenko , Ingo Metzmacher , Andrés Orozco-Estrada , Helmuth Rilling and Louis Langrée . There is a special connection through a large number of performances and some CD recordings with Ivor Bolton and the Mozarteum Orchestra.

Scenic appearances

The Salzburg Bach Choir also appears in scenic productions:

  • International Mozart Week 1993: Lucio Silla by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the Kleiner Festspielhaus (Director: Peter Mussbach, Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling)
  • Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Salzburg Festival 2000: Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (director: Ursel and Karl-Ernst Hermann, conductor: Michael Gielen) - resumption in the Mozart year 2006 in the newly built house for Mozart under Sir Roger Norrington
  • Salzburg Festival 2009 (opening premiere): Theodora von Georg Friedrich Händel in the Großer Festspielhaus (director: Christof Loy , conductor Ivor Bolton )
  • Salzburg Festival 2012: Peter von Winter's labyrinth in the courtyard of the Residenz (director: Alexandra Liedtke, conductor: Ivor Bolton)
  • International Mozart Week, Salzburg Festival and Bremen Music Festival 2013: Lucio Silla by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Director: Marshall Pinkosky, Conductor: Marc Minkowski)
  • International Mozart Week 2014: Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck (Director: Ivan Alexandre , Conductor: Marc Minkowski)
  • Salzburg Festival 2016: West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein in the Felsenreitschule (director: Philip Wm. McKinley, conductor: Gustavo Dudamel)
  • Salzburg Festival 2016: The Exterminating Angel by Thomas Adès in the Haus für Mozart (world premiere; director: Tom Cairns, conductor: Thomas Ades)
  • Salzburg Festival 2017: Ariodante by Georg Friedrich Händel in the House for Mozart (Director: Christof Loy, Conductor: Gianluca Capuano)
  • International Mozart Week 2018: The Abduction from the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Director: Andrea Moses, Conductor: René Jacobs)
  • Salzburg Easter Festival 2018: Tosca by Giacomo Puccini (Director: Michael Sturminger, Conductor: Christian Thielemann)
  • International Mozart Week 2019: Thamos, King in Egypt by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Director: Carlus Padrissa / La Fura dels Baus, Conductor: Alondra de la Parra)
  • Salzburg Easter Festival 2019: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg by Richard Wagner (Director: Jans-Daniel Herzog, Conductor: Christian Thielemann)
  • Salzburg Festival 2019: Alcina by Georg Friedrich Händel (Director: Damiano Michieletto, Conductor: Gianluca Capuano)

Personalities

Artistic director

Association chairperson

  • 1983–1988: Albert Hartinger , founder and artistic director of the Salzburg Bach Society
  • 1988–1991: Hermann Berger, chairman
  • 1991–2013: Christine Berger, chairwoman from 1991 to 2007, president from 2007 to 2013
  • 2013–2017: Gregor Faistauer, Executive President
  • since 2018: Roman Stalla, President

Discography

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber : 00Mary vesper00 (Kym Amps, Christopher Robson, Anton Rosner, Albert Hartinger ); Conductor: Howard Arman . Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 1986 / Ars Musici 2009
  • Musik am Salzburger Fürstenhof, Vol. 2. Dedicated to Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau (Innsbrucker Bläserkreis; Conductor: Howard Arman. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 1987)
  • Music from Wilten Abbey. (Innsbrucker Bläserkreis, Wilten Boys' Choir; Conductor: Howard Arman, Koch Records 1987)
  • Century Classics, Vol. 11, To the Glory of God 1600–1700. (Innsbrucker Bläserkreis; Conductor: Howard Arman. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 1998)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas BWV 82 "I have enough", BWV 158, "The Lord be with You" and BWV 56 "I would like to carry the cross staff" (Matthias Goerne, Camerata Salzburg; conductor: Sir Roger Norrington, Decca 1999)
  • Johann Michael Haydn : Requiem and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Davide Penitente (Iride Martinez, Anna Bonitatibus, Christoph Strehl, Luca Pisaroni , Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; conductor: Ivor Bolton, OEHMS Classics, live; festival documents, 2004)
  • Josef Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten (Miah Persson, John Mark Ainsley, David Wilson-Johnson, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Conductor: Ivor Bolton. OEHMS Classics, Live, 2005)
  • Josef Haydn: The Creation (Miah Persson, Topi Lehtipuu, David Wilson-Johnson, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; Conductor: Ivor Bolton. OEHMS Classics, Live, 2006)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo / DVD (Ramón Vargas, Magdalena Kozená, Ekaterina Siurina, Anja Harteros, Jeffrey Francis, Camerata Salzburg; conductor: Roger Norrington, directors: Ursel and Karl-Ernst Hermann. Decca, 2006)
  • Hector Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ (Ed Lyon, David Wilson-Johnson, Mireille Delunsch, Masashi Tsuji, William Dazeley, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; conductor: Ivor Bolton. OEHMS Classics, Live, 2007)
  • GF Handel: Theodora. DVD and Blu-ray Disc (Christine Schäfer, Bejun Mehta, Joseph Kaiser, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Bernarda Fink, Ryland Davies, Freiburger Barockorchester; conductor: Ivor Bolton, director: Christof Loy. C-Major-Entertainment)
  • Pater noster: Sacred choral music from five centuries. Works by Jacobus Gallus, Heinrich Schütz, Francis Poulenc, Giuseppe Verdi, Franz Liszt, Anton Bruckner, Alfred Schnittke, Edvard Grieg, Wolfram Wagner, Maurice Duruflé, Gustav Holst, Herwig Reiter and Benjamin Britten; Salzburg Bach Choir a cappella, conductor: Alois Glaßner. OEHMS Classics 2014
  • GF Handel: Messiah. Live recording of the Easter concert 2016 in Klosterneuburg (Hanna Herfurtner, Gaia Petrone, Michael Schade, Christian Immler, Bach Consort Vienna; Conductor: Rubén Dubrovsky. Gramola 2016)
  • Rejoice: Music for choir and organ. Works by Charles Stanford, Arvo Pärt, James MacMillan, Herbert Howells, Olivier Messiaen, Charles Ives and Benjamin Britten (Bach Choir Salzburg, organ: Wolfgang Kogert, conductor: Alois Glaßner. Gramola 2018)
  • Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor, Sonata a quatro in E flat major "Al Santo Sepolcro", Filiae Maestae Jerusalem - Introduzione al Miserere, Stabat mater, Lauda Jerusalem, Gloria. Live recording of the Easter concert 2017 in Klosterneuburg (Hanna Herfurtner, Joowon Chung, Andreas Scholl, Bach Consort Vienna, conductor: Rubén Dubrovsky. Gramola 2018)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georg Friedrich Haas : Requiem KV 626 (fragment), seven sound spaces for the unfinished fragments of the Requiem by WA Mozart (Genie Kühmeier, Dame Sarah Conolly, Topi Lehtipuu, Alastair Miles, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg; conductor: Ivor Bolton; live ORF concert recording 2005. Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg, belvedere edition 2018)

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