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Gabriela Eibenová
Gabriela Eibenová (born 1972) is a Czech soprano in opera and concert, specialising in music of the Baroque and classical period in historically informed performance. Born in Prague, she studied there at the Prague Conservatory and then on a scholarship at a summer academy of the Wellington College, and with Julie Kennard at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1995, she sang the part of the sorceress in Purcell's ''Dido and Aeneas'' at the Purcell Festival in Cologne. She recorded in 1998 Jakub Jan Ryba's ''Česká mše vánoční'' (Czech Christmas Mass) with Magdalena Kožená, Jaroslav Březina and Michael Pospíšil, the Calmus Ensemble and the Capella Regia Musicalis. In 1999, she sang in Rossini's ''Petite messe solennelle'' with the Cologne-based Collegium Cantorum Köln, recorded live. In 2013, she flew in from Prague to fill in for a local soprano who had to cancel for health reasons. She sang the soprano part of Bach's Mass in B minor in St. Martin, Idstein on 29 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass In B Minor Structure
The Mass in B minor is Johann Sebastian Bach's only setting of the complete Latin text of the . Towards the end of his life, mainly in 1748 and 1749, he finished composing new sections and compiling it into a complex, unified structure. Bach structured the work in four parts: # # # # The four sections of the manuscript are numbered, and Bach's usual closing formula (S.D.G = ) is found at the end of the . Some parts of the mass were used in Latin even in Lutheran Leipzig, and Bach had composed them: five settings of the Missa, containing the and the , and several additional individual settings of the and the . To achieve the , a setting of the complete text of the mass, he combined his most elaborate Missa, the Missa in B minor, written in 1733 for the court in Dresden, and a written for Christmas of 1724. He added a few new compositions, but mostly derived movements from cantata movements, in a technique known as parody. The Mass is a compendium of many different styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Erler
David Erler (born 1981) is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music. Career Erler was born in Auerbach (Vogtland). He attended the musical gymnasium ''Clara-Wieck-Gymnasium'' in Zwickau, and studied at the Musikhochschule Leipzig with Maria Jonas and mainly Marek Rzepka, on a scholarship of the Hanns Seidel Foundation. He took masterclasses with Andreas Scholl, Marius van Altena and The King’s Singers. He graduated in 2006. In the field of historically informed performance, Erler has collaborated as a soloist with conductors such as Manfred Cordes, Laurence Cummings, Philippe Herreweghe, , Jos van Immerseel, Wolfgang Katschner, Rudolf Lutz, Hermann Max, Gregor Meyer, Peter Neumann, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Ludger Rémy, Gotthold Schwarz, Jos van Veldhoven, Adam Viktora and Roland Wilson. He has appeared as a guest singer with vocal ensembles amarcord, Calmus Ensemble, Singer Pur, Singphoniker and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Wey
Terry Wey (born 15 September 1985) is a classical countertenor, specialising in historically informed performance. As a boy soprano, he was a soloist of the Wiener Sängerknaben. Born in Bern in a Swiss-American family of musicians, Wey began his vocal training as a member of the Wiener Sängerknaben and also studied the piano. From 2003, he appeared internationally in concert- and opera. His love of Renaissance music made him join the vocal ensemble Cinquecento. Selected recordings * Tommaso Albinoni: ''Il Nascimento dell’Aurora'' (2007) * Stefano Landi: ''Il Sant’Alessio'' (2008) * Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor (2008) * George Frederic Handel: ''Israel in Egypt ''Israel in Egypt'', HWV 54, is a biblical oratorio by the composer George Frideric Handel. Most scholars believe the libretto was prepared by Charles Jennens, who also compiled the biblical texts for Handel's '' Messiah''. It is composed ...'' (2008) * Claudio Monteverdi: '' Il Ritorno d'Ul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisandro Abadie
Lisandro Abadie (born 28 July 1974) is an Argentine bass-baritone. He studied in Switzerland, initially in Basel at the Schola Cantorum (music diploma in 2001) and subsequently at the Music School of Lucerne University, graduating with a solo-singing diploma in 2005 and winning the Edwin Fischer Memorial Prize in 2006. He has performed under conductors such as William Christie, Facundo Agudin, Laurence Cummings, Václav Luks, Anthony Rooley or Hervé Niquet, in concert, on stage and in recordings, and has sung works by Mozart, Bach, Purcell, Händel, Marais, Monteverdi and Brahms. He has also sung in Bach's St Matthew Matthew the Apostle,, shortened to ''Matti'' (whence ar, مَتَّى, Mattā), meaning "Gift of YHWH"; arc, , Mattai; grc-koi, Μαθθαῖος, ''Maththaîos'' or , ''Matthaîos''; cop, ⲙⲁⲧⲑⲉⲟⲥ, Mattheos; la, Matthaeus a ... and St John Passions. References External linksOfficial site 21st-century Argentine male opera singers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makoto Sakurada
is a Japanese tenor in opera and concert. Biography Makoto graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts. He went to study in Italy in 1997, and continues to work there. He has recorded Bach cantatas in the complete set directed by Masaaki Suzuki, and the ongoing series directed by Rudolf Lutz. References External links Makoto SakuradaBach Collegium Japan Bach Collegium Japan (BCJ) is composed of an orchestra and a chorus specializing in Baroque music, playing on period instruments. It was founded in 1990 by Masaaki Suzuki with the purpose of introducing Japanese audiences to European Baroque music ... * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sakurada, Makoto Living people Japanese tenors 21st-century Japanese male opera singers Bach singers 1960 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Mena
Carlos Mena (born 1971) is a Spanish countertenor opera singer. He has previously worked with groups such as Al Ayre Español, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, and Ricercar Consort and has an interest in the twentieth-century repertoire. Life and career Carlos Mena initially worked as a countertenor in masterclasses with Charles Brett and then relocated to Switzerland in 1992 to study a Diploma of Reinaissance-Baroque Music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. His teachers here were Richard Levitt and René Jacobs, and he was awarded the diploma in 1997. His operatic performances have included Handel's '' Radamisto'' (title role), Monteverdi's ''L'Orfeo'' (Speranza), Handel's ''Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno'' (Disinganno), and John Cage's ''Europera 5''. His recital ''De Aeternitate'' (Ricercar Consort) won a Diapason d'Or in 2002. Discography * ''El Cant de La Sibilla Mallorca - València (1400-1560)''. Montserrat Figueras, Jordi Savall, La Capella Reial de Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Kobow
Jan Kobow (born 1966) is a German classical tenor in concert, Lied, and Baroque opera. Professional career Jan Kobow was born and raised in Berlin. He was a singer and soloist of the ''Staats- und Domchor, Berlin'' with Christian Grube. He studied the organ at the Schola Cantorum in Paris and graduated in church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in 1994. He continued to study singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Sabine Kirchner, graduating in 1999. In the field of historically informed performance he has worked with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and took part in the ''Bach Cantata Pilgrimage'' of John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir. In 2002, he recorded several cantatas for Pentecost of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, conducted by Ludger Rémy, with one voice per part, the four soloists forming the choir. In 2003 he recorded Bach cantatas with Philippe Herreweghe and the Collegium Vocale Gent, Johannette Zomer, Ingeborg Danz and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kai Wessel (countertenor)
Kai Wessel (born 1964 in Hamburg) is a German countertenor and teacher at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. Professional career Kai Wessel started singing in school choirs and as a boy soprano at the Christus-Kirche of Hamburg-Wandsbek and received lessons on piano, organ and oboe. He studied to become a composer at the Lübeck Academy of Music but then concentrated on training his countertenor voice with Ute von Garczynski. He studied baroque performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with René Jacobs. His first concert was in Flensburg in 1984, his first opera appearance 1988 in the theatre of Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1994 to 2004, he was engaged at the theatre of Basel where he sang in productions of Herbert Wernicke in Handel's Theodora, Giulio Cesare and Israel in Egypt, among others. He took part in the project of Ton Koopman to record the complete vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir. Composers such as Mauri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Jan Dismas Zelenka (16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745), baptised Jan Lukáš Zelenka was a Czech composer and musician of the Baroque period. His music is admired for its harmonic inventiveness and mastery of counterpoint. Zelenka was raised in Central Bohemia, educated in Prague and Vienna, and spent his professional life in Dresden. The greatest success during his career was the performance of the extensive composition '' Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis'' in the presence of the Emperor Charles VI, shortly after his coronation as king of Bohemia in 1723. Life Early life Zelenka was born in Louňovice pod Blaníkem, a market town southeast of Prague, in Bohemia. He was the eldest of eight children born to Marie Magdalena (née Hájek) and Jiří Zelenka. The middle name Dismas is probably his confirmation name. Zelenka's father Jiří was a schoolmaster and organist in Louňovice, and was likely his first music teacher. Nothing more is known with certainty about Ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ensemble Inégal
Ensemble may refer to: Art * Architectural ensemble * ''Ensemble'' (album), Kendji Girac 2015 album * Ensemble (band), a project of Olivier Alary * Ensemble cast (drama, comedy) * Ensemble (musical theatre), also known as the chorus * ''Ensemble'' (Stockhausen), 1967 group-composition project by Karlheinz Stockhausen * Musical ensemble Mathematics and science * Distribution ensemble or probability ensemble (cryptography) * Ensemble Kalman filter * Ensemble learning (statistics and machine learning) * Ensembl genome database project * Neural ensemble, a population of nervous system cells (or cultured neurons) involved in a particular neural computation * Statistical ensemble (mathematical physics) ** Climate ensemble ** Ensemble average (statistical mechanics) ** Ensemble averaging (machine learning) ** Ensemble (fluid mechanics) ** Ensemble forecasting (meteorology) ** Quantum statistical mechanics, the study of statistical ensembles of quantum mechanical systems Techn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cappella Augustana
Cappella may refer to: * Cappella (band), Italian electronic music group * a cappella, unaccompanied singing People with the surname * Felix Cappella (1930-2011), Canadian race walker * Scipione Cappella (fl. 18th century), Italian painter See also * A cappella (other), including "A Cappella" * Capella (other) Capella is a bright star in the constellation of Auriga. Capella may also refer to: Places * Capella, Queensland, a town in the Central Highlands Region, Australia * Capella, Aragon, a municipality in Huesca, Spain * Capella Island, a minor isl ... * Capela (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He is credited with bringing the Italian style to Germany and continuing its evolution from the Renaissance into the Early Baroque. Most of his surviving music was written for the Lutheran church, primarily for the Electoral Chapel in Dresden. He wrote what is traditionally considered the first German opera, '' Dafne'', performed at Torgau in 1627, the music of which has since been lost, along with nearly all of his ceremonial and theatrical scores. Schütz was a prolific composer, with more than 500 surviving works. He is commemorated as a musician in the Calendar of Saints of some North American Lutheran churches on 28 July with Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. Early life Schütz was born in Köstritz, the eldest son of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
