The Rostock Motet Choir''Welcome to St.-Johannis-Kirche'' at www.st-johannis-rostock.de. Retrieved 13 Oct 2013 (german: Rostocker Motettenchor) was founded in 1964 by Hartwig Eschenburg and gave concerts from the early days in famous churches and concert halls in East Germany. The Rostock Motet Choir is part of the church choir (''St. Johannis-Kantorei'') at
St. John's Church St. John's Church, Church of St. John, or variants, thereof, (Saint John or St. John usually refers to John the Baptist, but also, sometimes, to John the Apostle or John the Evangelist) may refer to the following churches, former churches or other ...
in Rostock. The choir has performed ''inter alia'' at the
Kreuzkirche, Dresden
The Dresden Kreuzkirche (Church of the Holy Cross) is a Lutheran church in Dresden, Germany. It is the main church and seat of the ''Landesbischof'' of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony, and the largest church building in the Free State of ...
Peter Schreier
Peter Schreier (29 July 1935 – 25 December 2019) was a German tenor in opera, concert and lied, and a conductor. He was regarded as one of the leading lyric tenors of the 20th century.
Schreier was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor conduct ...
and
Ludwig Güttler
Ludwig Güttler (born 13 June 1943) is an internationally known German virtuoso on the Baroque trumpet, the piccolo trumpet and the corno da caccia. As a conductor, he founded several ensembles including the chamber orchestra Virtuosi Saxoniae. H ...
, have worked with the Rostock Motet Choir.
Discography
*Bach motets on ''Bach Edition Leipzig 1980-1984'', Capriccio 2000
*Bach motets on ''Bach Edition Leipzig 1980-1984'', Delta 2006
*''Abendstille'' Berlin 1988
*''In Principio'', Aliud 2006
*various CDs with concert recordings, own label