Vocal ensemble Cantico
The vocal ensemble Cantico goes back to a children's choir founded by the director Edeltraud Appl in April 1988 . When male voices joined in November 1993 , the name Cantico was given. The choir is based in Tegernheim and maintains a repertoire from works of early music to modern classical compositions, but also new sacred songs and gospels . One focus is the sacred a cappella literature of the Renaissance and Romanticism . All members of the choir have had a good musical education, so all the male voices of the vocal ensemble were members of the Regensburger Domspatzen .
occupation
The line-up currently (July 2012) consists of 7 sopranos, 7 altos, 3 tenors and 4 basses.
Concert activity
Cantico performs regularly throughout southern Germany, especially in Advent, Passion and Mary concerts. The ensemble gave several concerts as part of the series Musik im Pfaffenwinkel and Music between Inn and Salzach . At large orchestral concerts, such as at the end of the Mozart year in January 2007 in the collegiate church of the old chapel in Regensburg and at the Handel festival concert in Regensburg in 2009 and 2010 in the famous Wieskirche , they regularly work with well-known orchestras and instrumental groups. Travels have taken the choir to Pisa and Florence (1997), Rome (with performances in St. Peter's Basilica and the Pantheon , 1998 and 2001), Vienna (with a performance in the Vienna Hofburg , 2002), to Salzburg (with a performance in Salzburg Cathedral , 2004 ) and Venice (with an appearance in St. Mark's Basilica , 2006).
Television appearances
The vocal ensemble Cantico gained national fame through two television appearances. The choir took part in the television recordings of the Saarländischer Rundfunk for the ARD broadcast “ No beautiful land ” about Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate with the song “A beautiful day ends” by Karl Norbert Schmid . The recordings for this were made in 2000 in the Upper Palatinate Open Air Museum Neusath-Perschen . Cantico made a second TV appearance on December 5, 2004. On the BR show “ Under our Heaven . Adventsingen auf dem Samerberg ”the vocal ensemble took part with four songs.
CD production
In the summer of 2003 Cantico presented the CD “Without Beginning, Without End”, on which 26 sacred works from the church year can be heard.
social commitment
In benefit concerts, the choir was able to “sing” several thousand euros for various social institutions and foundations, for children's cancer aid, misereor, earthquake and flood victims and others.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.cantico.de as of July 2012