Thuringian Academic Singing Circle
| Thuringian Academic Singing Circle | |
|---|---|
| Seat: | Leipzig / Germany |
| Founding: | 1969 |
| Genus: | Chamber choir |
| Head : | Jörg Genslein |
| Voices : | 38 ( SATB ) |
| Website : | http://www.task-ev.de |
The Thuringian Academic Singing Circle (TASK) is a supra-regional, mixed chamber choir that rehearses project-related and performs concerts. The Singkreis was founded in 1969 by students from the Thuringian cities of Jena , Weimar and Erfurt .
Artistic Director
From 1969 to 1996 Wolfgang Unger headed the Thuringian Academic Singing Circle. From 1998 to 2007 Ilse Krüger-Kreile took over the management of the ensemble. In 2008 Jörg Genslein was elected the new head of TASK.
Organization and way of working
The choir is based in Saxony ( Leipzig ) as a non-profit organization . The singers, however, come from many parts of Germany to rehearse themed a cappella programs and perform concerts on a 10-day summer trip and five to six weekends a year.
The TASK follows as the Chamber Choir invitations to major music festivals such as the MDR Music Summer , the Leipzig Bach Festival , the Bach Festival of the New Bach Society , the festival European Church Music and the Bach Week in Ansbach .
The ensemble can also be heard regularly at unusual performance locations such as the Rammelsberg ore processing plant near Goslar or the Barbarossa Cave in Kyffhäuser.
In addition to cultivating a cappella music from all epochs of music history, TASK also performs as an oratorical choir under the direction of well-known conductors such as Peter Schreier , Roderich Kreile and Ludwig Güttler . a. the Bach Passions, Handel's Messiah , Brahms ' German Requiem and Robert Schumann's oratorio The Rose Pilgrimage listed.
The TASK concerts have already been recorded several times by radio and can be heard regularly on the radio in addition to the works recorded on CD.
organist
The choir's a cappella concerts are accompanied by the Lübeck organist and Bach Prize winner Johannes Unger .
Discography
- Jan Dismas Zelenka : Missa Dei Patris. Head: Ludwig Güttler (1988)
- Johann Adolf Hasse : Mass in G minor. Head: Ludwig Güttler (1990)
- Rudolf Mauersberger : St. Luke Passion . Head: Wolfgang Unger (1991)
- Festive Reformation concert. Sacred compositions from four centuries (works by Heinrich Schütz , Michael Praetorius , Johann Bach , Johann Friedrich Fasch , Johannes Brahms , Johann Nepomuk David and Johann Sebastian Bach ). Head: Wolfgang Unger (1993)
- " Go out, my heart, and seek Freud ". Sacred summer music by Rudolf Mauersberger. Head: Wolfgang Unger (1994)
- Mühlhausen state, festival and council music (works by Heinrich Schütz, Johann Rudolph Ahle , Philipp Heinrich Erlebach and Johann Sebastian Bach ). Head: Wolfgang Unger (1995)
- WordSound. Choir and organ works from the Middle Ages to the present day (works by Hildegard von Bingen , Johann Hermann Schein , Johann Sebastian Bach , Max Reger , Sergei Rachmaninow , Francis Poulenc , Louis Vierne , Thomas Jennefelt , Henry Purcell and Petr Eben ). Head: Ilse Krüger-Kreile (2001)
- “… It whizzed down once.” Christmas choir and organ music (works by Francis Poulenc , Camille Saint-Saëns , Rudolf Mauersberger, Max Reger and Max Beckschäfer ). Head: Ilse Krüger-Kreile (2004)
- Secular choral music by Brahms and Englbrecht. Piano: Adrian Heger, conductor: Jörg Genslein (2011)
Web links
- TASK homepage
- Works by and about Thuringian Academic Singing Circle in the catalog of the German National Library