La Chapelle Rhénane is a French

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

musical ensemble A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instrumentalists, ...

conducted by

Benoît Haller Benoît Haller is a French conductor and tenor, born in Strasbourg in 1972. Biography Benoît Haller studied choral and orchestral conducting with Hans Michael Beuerle at the Hochschule für Musik in Fribourg-en-Brisgau. He studied singing w ...

, also a soloist in the ensemble.

History

Founded in 2001 by tenor

, La Chapelle Rhénane is a musical ensemble of lyrical and instrumental soloists. The team is dedicated to the repertoire of great European vocal works. Its ambition is, through concerts and recordings, to reveal in these works the emotion, humanity and modernity that can seduce a wide contemporary audience. Just like the great European courts during the Baroque period who recruited their musicians across the continent – and to a lesser extent like the composers who never ceased to travel to complete their training and gain new experiences - la Chapelle Rhénane benefits from the central location of

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

, attracting musicians from all over Europe. Since its start in 2003, the activity of la Chapelle Rhénane has been intimately linked to the work of Heinrich Schütz. It is through this composer that the ensemble forged its unique sound and deep human bonds. Subsequently, the ensemble began to play the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, in particular through the creation of the

St John Passion The ''Passio secundum Joannem'' or ''St John Passion'' (german: Johannes-Passion, link=no), BWV 245, is a Passion or oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, the older of the surviving Passions by Bach. It was written during his first year as direc ...

- whose outcome was the release of the recording by the end of March 2010 under the label ZigZag Territories - and the creation of the

St Matthew Passion The ''St Matthew Passion'' (german: Matthäus-Passion, links=-no), BWV 244, is a '' Passion'', a sacred oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander. It sets ...

in 2009. The Christmas Oratorio followed those ambitious projects in fall 2010. Since 2007, la Chapelle Rhénane performed in some of the best known French stages, such as the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Arsenal de Metz or festivals like, Sarrebourg, Sablé sur Sarthe, St. Riquier, Festival de musique de La Chaise-Dieu, Sinfonia in Périgord, Ars Cameralis Katowice (Poland), The Mad Day of Nantes, (Germany). La Chapelle Rhénane is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Communication - DRAC Grand Est, Grand Est Region and the City of Strasbourg. Other partners include the Orange Foundation, the Foundation Royaumont - Voice Center and Les Gémeaux - Scène Nationale de Sceaux (direction Françoise Letellier).

Recordings

Six discs of la Chapelle Rhénane have been released under the label K617: In addition to an album dedicated to the "Theatrum Musicum and Lessons of Darkness" by Samuel Capricornus, four were devoted to Heinrich Schütz: "Second Book of Symphoniæ Sacræ" in 2004, " Uppsala Magnificat and other sacred works" in 2006, "History of Resurrection & Musikalische Exequien" in 2007 and finally '' Psalmen Davids'' in 2012. All these recordings have been enthusiastically received by the press, collecting a total of four "Diapason d'Or", a "Diapason d'Or of the Year" in 2007, two "10 de Répertoire", a "Shock the World of Music "and an "Editor's Choice in Gramophone." In April 2008 appeared the cycle "Membra Nostri Jesu" by

Dietrich Buxtehude Dieterich Buxtehude (; ; born Diderik Hansen Buxtehude; c. 1637 – 9 May 1707) was a Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period, whose works are typical of the North German organ school. As a composer who worked in various vocal a ...

, the first live recording of the Chapel with the Maîtrise de Garçons de ColmarMembra Nostri Jesu with the Maîtrise de Garçons de Colmar
/ref> (direction Arlette Steyer). The disc received the "Orphée d'or" for best recording of sacred music by the Académie du Disque Lyrique. * 2004 : Symphoniæ Sacræ • extraits du deuxième Livre (1647) - Heinrich Schütz * 2006 : Theatrum Musicum & Leçons de Ténèbres - Samuel Capricornus * 2006 : Magnificat d'Uppsala et autres œuvres sacrées - Heinrich Schütz * 2007 : Histoire de la Résurrection & Musikalische Exequien - Heinrich Schütz * 2008 :

Membra Jesu Nostri ''Membra Jesu nostri'', BuxWV 75, is a cycle of seven cantatas composed in 1680 by Dieterich Buxtehude and dedicated to Gustaf Düben. More specifically and fully it is, in Buxtehude’s phrase, a ''�devotionedecantata,”'' or “sung devotion, ...

* 2010 : Passio secundum Johannem - Johann Sebastian Bach * 2012 : Psalmen Davids • extraits du recueil de 1619 - Heinrich Schütz * 2013 : MESSIAH - Georg Friedrich Händel

References

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