Singer Pur is a German vocal sextet founded in 1991 by former members of the

Regensburger Domspatzen The Regensburger Domspatzen (literally: Regensburg Cathedral Sparrows) is the cathedral choir at the Regensburg Cathedral in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany. The boys' choir dates back to 975, and consists of boys and young men only. They perform i ...

. The five original members were joined by a soprano in 1994. The sextet is focussed on classical music, but who have also performed and recorded traditional folk songs and pop music. Singer Pur have recorded more than 30 CDs. Singer Pur have given concerts and workshops in nearly 60 countries all over the world.

Members

Recent members

* Claudia Reinhard – soprano * Christian Meister – tenor * Markus Zapp – tenor * Manuel Warwitz – tenor * Jakob Steiner – baritone * Felix Meybier - bass

Former members

* Caroline Wegmann – soprano * Hedwig Westhoff-Düppmann – soprano * Ulrike Hofbauer – soprano * Claus Werner – tenor * Christian Wegmann – tenor * Guido Heidloff – baritone * Andreas Hirtreiter – tenor * Thomas E. Bauer – baritone * Klaus Wenk – tenor * Rüdiger Ballhorn – tenor * Reiner Schneider-Waterberg – baritone * Marcus Schmidl – bass

Discography

* 1994 - ''Singer Pur Vokalsolistenensemble'' -

Lassus Orlande de Lassus ( various other names; probably – 14 June 1594) was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lassus stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Pales ...

: four works, Johnny Mercer: Emily,

Ludwig Senfl Ludwig Senfl (born around 1486, died between December 2, 1542 and August 10, 1543) was a Swiss composer of the Renaissance, active in Germany. He was the most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of Maximilian I, Holy R ...

, Ralph Vaughan Williams,

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: The Wild Swans at Coole,

György Ligeti György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century ...

Guillaume Dufay Guillaume Du Fay ( , ; also Dufay, Du Fayt; 5 August 1397(?) – 27 November 1474) was a French composer and music theorist of the early Renaissance. Considered the leading European composer of his time, his music was widely performed and repr ...

, Max Reger Al Jarreau,

Luca Marenzio Luca Marenzio (also Marentio; October 18, 1553 or 1554 – August 22, 1599) was an Italian composer and singer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most renowned composers of madrigals, and wrote some of the most famous examples of the fo ...

. * 1995 - Factor Orbis

Tomás Luis de Victoria Tomás Luis de Victoria (sometimes Italianised as ''da Vittoria''; ) was the most famous Spanish composer of the Renaissance. He stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlande de Lassus as among the principal composers of the late Ren ...

Orlando di Lasso Orlande de Lassus ( various other names; probably – 14 June 1594) was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lassus stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Pales ...

, Josquin des Prez, Ludwig Sennfl, Cypriano de Rore Alexander Utendal, Conrad Rupsch,

Jacob Obrecht Jacob Obrecht (also Hobrecht; 1457/8

Philippe de Monte Philippe de Monte (1521 – 4 July 1603), sometimes known as Philippus de Monte, was a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance active all over Europe. He was a member of the 3rd generation madrigalists and wrote more madrigals than any other comp ...

, Ranlequin de Mol,

Hans Leo Haßler Hans Leo Hassler (in German, Hans Leo Haßler) (baptized 26 October 1564 – 8 June 1612) was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of less known composer Jakob Hassler. He was born in N ...

Jacobus Gallus,

William Byrd William Byrd (; 4 July 1623) was an English composer of late Renaissance music. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native England and those on the continent. He ...

, Gesualdo. Ars Musici * 1996 - ''Nordisk Vokalmusik'' Nordic Vocal Music - Wilhelm Stenhammar, Håkan Parkman, Nils-Erik Fougstedt,

Einojuhani Rautavaara Einojuhani Rautavaara (; 9 October 1928 – 27 July 2016) was a Finnish composer of classical music. Among the most notable Finnish composers since Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Rautavaara wrote a great number of works spanning various styles. ...

, Nils Lindberg,

Heikki Sarmanto Heikki Veli Uolevi Sarmanto (born 22 June 1939) is a Finnish jazz pianist and composer. Sarmanto was born in Helsinki, Finland, and began to play jazz during the 1960s. He studied first at the Sibelius Academy and later at the Berklee College ...

, Erna Tauro,

Wilhelm Peterson-Berger Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger ( 27 February 1867, Ullånger — 3 December 1942, Östersund) was a Swedish composer and music critic. As a composer, his main musical influences were Grieg, August Söderman and Wagner as well as Swedish folk id ...

, Ulf Långbacka, :sv:Maurice Karkoff, Björn Kruse,

Trond Kverno Trond Hans Farner Kverno (born 20 October 1945, in Oslo) is a contemporary Norwegian composer. He received degrees in church music, music theory and choir direction from the Norwegian Academy of Music The Norwegian Academy of Music (Norwegian: '' ...

, Arne Mellnäs, David Wikander, Bo Hansson, Elisabet Hermodson. Ars Musici * 1997 - Musik für Stimmen ''Music for Voices''. Weiss and Douglas (arr. Hans Huber):

What a Wonderful World "What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele (as "George Douglas") and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released in 1967 as a single. It topped the pop chart in the United Kingdom, but performed poor ...

, Claude Debussy Trois chansons de Charles d’Orléans John Cage, Ivan Moody, György Ligeti, Hans Leo Haßler,

Jacobus Clemens non Papa Jacobus Clemens non Papa (also Jacques Clément or Jacob Clemens non Papa) ( – 1555 or 1556) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance based for most of his life in Flanders. He was a prolific composer in many of the current styles, and ...

, Orlando di Lasso Ludwig Sennfl, Ninot le Petit, Cypriano de Rore, Paul Patterson, Johannes Brahms, Irish traditional ''The little green lane'', Wilhelm Stenhammar, Friedrich Silcher, Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger,

Neil Hefti Neal Paul Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He wrote music for '' The Odd Couple'' movie and TV series and for the '' Batman'' TV series. He began arranging professionally in ...

. Ars Musici * 1999 -

: Tous les regrez Ars Musici * 2002 - Jacobus Gallus: Moralia Harmoniae Morales Latin secular works 3CD (excerpts on 1CD) Ars Musici * 2003 - ''Ahi Vita'' Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Phinot and Striggio with clarinettist :de:Michael Riessler * 2003 - ''Electric Seraphim'' Singer Pur & :de:Go Guitars. Works for choir and electric guitars Dufay, Pipelare, Venosa, Cage, Pärt, Michael Hirsch, Bernhard Weidner and Fredrik Zeller.

K&K Verlagsanstalt K&K Verlagsanstalt is a German record label based in Landau in der Pfalz and owned by Josef-Stefan Kindler and Andreas Otto Grimminger. The company was established in 1990 by Josef-Stefan Kindler. In 1992 the musician and sound engineer Andreas O ...

* 2004 - ''Rihm, Sciarrino, Moody, Metcalf'' -

Wolfgang Rihm Wolfgang Rihm (born 13 March 1952) is a German composer and academic teacher. He is musical director of the Institute of New Music and Media at the University of Music Karlsruhe and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Sa ...

: Tenebrae factae sunt,

Salvatore Sciarrino Salvatore Sciarrino (born 4 April 1947) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Described as "the best-known and most performed Italian composer" of the present day, his works include ''Quaderno di strada'' (2003) and ''La porta d ...

: Responsorio delle tenebre a sei voci,

: Lamentation of the Virgin, Joanne Metcalf. with The

Hilliard Ensemble The Hilliard Ensemble was a British male vocal quartet originally devoted to the performance of early music. The group was named after the Elizabethan miniaturist painter Nicholas Hilliard. Founded in 1974, the group disbanded in 2014. Althoug ...

* 2005 - Herztöne - Lovesongs. Nils Lindberg, trad.

Londonderry Air The "Londonderry Air" is an Irish air that originated in County Londonderry. It is popular among the North American Irish diaspora and is well known throughout the world. The tune is played as the victory sporting anthem of Northern Ireland at ...

, Johannes Brahms, Werner R. Heymann,

Erroll Garner Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad " Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. It was first r ...

Evert Taube Axel Evert Taube (; 12 March 1890 – 31 January 1976) was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer. He is widely regarded as one of Sweden's most respected musicians and the foremost troubadour of the Swedish ballad tradition in the 20th ce ...

, Robert Schumann,

Thomas Ravenscroft Thomas Ravenscroft ( – 1635) was an English musician, theorist and editor, notable as a composer of rounds and catches, and especially for compiling collections of British folk music. Little is known of Ravenscroft's early life. He pro ...

, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,

Jacques Chailley Jacques Chailley (24 March 1910 – 21 January 1999) was a French musicologist and composer. Alain Lompech, "Jacques Chailley, musicologue-praticien et infatigable chercheur", ''Consociatio internationalis musicæ sacræ, Musicæ sacræ ministeriu ...

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Percy Grainger Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who lived in the United States from 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. In the course of a long an ...

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: "London by night," Volkslied, Burt Bacharach, Volksweise, Chick Corea, Billy Joel. * 2006 - SOS - Save Our Songs! * 2007 - Das Hohelied der Liebe - Settings from the Song of Songs - Dominique Phinot,

Canticum Canticorum II (1994)

Leonhard Lechner Leonhard Lechner (also Leonard, 15539 September 1606) was a German composer, kapellmeister, tenor and music editor who was taught by Orlando de Lassus. He added Athesinus to his signature, referring to his origin in today's South Tyrol. His la ...

, Brian Elias,

Jean Richafort Jean Richafort ( – ) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance, a member of the third generation of the Franco-Flemish School. He was probably born in Hainaut, and his native language appears to have been French. According to the poet Ro ...

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 ...

, Joanne Metcalf, John Plummer, Ludwig Sennfl, Wilhelm Keller * 2008 - ''Memento'':

George de La Hèle George de La Hèle (also Georges, Helle, Hele) (1547 – August 27, 1586) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, mainly active in the Habsburg chapels of Spain and the Low Countries. Among his surviving music is a book of eight masses, ...

, Pärt,

* 2008 - ''Drei Schiffe sah ich segeln nach Bethlehem!'' German Christmas carols for mixed choir: Hans Schanderl, Reiko Füting, Peter Wittrich, William Hawley, Wolfram Buchenberg * 2009 - Adrian Willaert: Musica Nova 1559 (Vol.I - Petrarch madrigals 2CD) * 2010 - Letztes Glück - Songs of the German Romantics: Works by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann,

Friedrich Silcher Philipp Friedrich Silcher (27 June 1789 in Schnait (today part of Weinstadt) – 26 August 1860 in Tübingen), was a German composer, mainly known for his lieder (songs), and an important Volkslied collector.Luise Marretta-Schär, Silcher, (Philip ...

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...

, Richard Strauss, Max Reger and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.

Oehms Oehms Classics is a German classical music label founded in 2003 by Dieter Oehms (born in Manderscheid, Bernkastel-Wittlich in 1941), a former manager for 35 years with DGG/Polygram and Arte Nova Arte (; (), sometimes stylized in lowercase ...

* 2012 - Sting: Singer Pur sings Sting Sting a-cappella * 2010 - Jeremiah - Lamentations by Palestrina and Gesualdo with :de:David Orlowsky clarinet Sony Classics * 2011 - ''Renaissance am Rhein'' - motets, songs and chansons of the 16th century Petit Jean de Latre, Nicolaus Zangius, Andreas Pevernage, Konrad Hagius, Martin Peudargent, Johannes de Cleve,

, Johannes Mangon * 2012 - Roland de Lassus Biographie musicale vol. II (Vol.I is by another ensemble) Musique en Wallonie * 2013 -

Adrian Willaert Adrian Willaert ( – 7 December 1562) was a Flemish composer of High Renaissance music. Mainly active in Italy, he was the founder of the Venetian School. He was one of the most representative members of the generation of northern composers ...

: Musica Nova 1559 (Vol.II - motets 3CD)

* 2013 -

Gioseffo Zarlino Gioseffo Zarlino (31 January or 22 March 1517 – 4 February 1590) was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He made a large contribution to the theory of counterpoint as well as to musical tuning. Life and career Zarlin ...

Modulationes sex vocum (1566) Singer Pur * 2015 - ''Der Singer Pur Adventskalender'' - 24 German Advent songs * 2016 - ''

Gavin Bryars Richard Gavin Bryars (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked in jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, avant-garde, and experimental music. Early life and career Born on 16 January 1943 in ...

- The I Tatti Madrigals'' * 2016 - ''Advents- und Weihnachtszeit mit Singer Pur'' Advent songs and Christmas carols * 2017 - ''Sagenhaft! - 25 Jahre Singer Pur'' * 2017 - ''Best of Singer Pur'' a double CD with 35 songs out of productions with the label OehmsClassics from the years 2003-2015 * 2019 - ''Horizons'' - Der Geist weht, wo er will * 2021 - '' Lou Koster'': Der Geiger von Echternach - a cantata for solo voices, piano, violin and vokal ensemble * 2021 - ''Among Whirlwinds'' - compositions by women for voices Frauen * 2022: ''Musica Divina'' - Göttliche Vokalmusik aus der Schatztruhe Carl Proskes * 2022: ''SENFL'' featuring Ensemble Leones

Publications

* (book) Sheets: SOS - Save Our Songs! - German folksongs edited for mixed choir, Schott Music ED 20301 * (book) Sheets: Drei Schiffe sah ich segeln nach Bethlehem - German Christmas carols edited for mixed choir, Schott Music ED 20711 * (book) Sheets: Der Singer Pur Adventskalender - 24 German Advent songs edited for mixed choir, Schott Music ED 22344

References

External links

* * {{Authority control Early music groups A cappella musical groups People from Regensburg German choirs Oehms Classics artists