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Oratorio De Noël
The ''Oratorio de Noël'', Op. 12, by Camille Saint-Saëns, also known as his Christmas Oratorio, is a cantata-like work scored for soloists, chorus, organ, strings and harp. While an organist at La Madeleine, Saint-Saëns wrote the Christmas oratorio in less than a fortnight, completing it ten days before its premiere on Christmas 1858. The vocal score of this oratorio was prepared later by the composer and organist Eugene Gigout, a colleague of Saint-Saëns. Performing forces The work is scored for five soloists (soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone), SATB mixed chorus, organ, harp, and strings in the standard five sections. The women of the chorus divide into four parts in one movement. The organ plays a significant role in the work, often playing alone, while the harp is limited to three movements. Text Saint-Saëns chose several verses from the Latin Vulgate Bible for the text of the work. "While these texts are not from a single source, it is clear that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (, , 9October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns), Second Piano Concerto (1868), the Cello Concerto No. 1 (Saint-Saëns), First Cello Concerto (1872), ''Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns), Danse macabre'' (1874), the opera ''Samson and Delilah (opera), Samson and Delilah'' (1877), the Violin Concerto No. 3 (Saint-Saëns), Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns), Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and ''The Carnival of the Animals'' (1886). Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, from 1858, La Madeleine, Paris, La Madeleine, the official church of the Second French Empire, Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Sofie Von Otter
Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano. Her repertoire encompasses lieder, operas, oratorios and also rock and pop songs. Early life Von Otter was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was Göran von Otter, a Swedish diplomat in Berlin during World War II. She grew up in Bonn, London and Stockholm. She studied in Stockholm and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where her teachers included Vera Rózsa. In 1982, she won second prize in the ARD International Music Competition. From 1983 to 1985, she was an ensemble member of the Basel Opera, where she made her professional operatic début as Alcina in Haydn's '' Orlando paladino''. She made her Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, début in 1985 and her La Scala debut in 1987. Her Metropolitan Opera début was in December 1988 as Cherubino in '' The Marriage of Figaro''. Career Her recording of Grieg songs won the 1993 '' Gramophone'' Record of the Year, the first time in the aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Ziesak
Ruth Ziesak (born 9 February 1963) is a German soprano in opera and concert. Career Ruth Ziesak studied voice at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Elsa Cavelti and Christoph Prégardien. She has been a member of the Municipal Theatre Heidelberg since 1988 and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 1990. She appeared in roles of Mozart's operas, such as ''Pamina'' in ''The Magic Flute'' (at the Salzburg Festival 1991 and recorded with Georg Solti), ''Servilia'' in ''La clemenza di Tito'' (recorded with Nikolaus Harnoncourt) or the Countess in ''Le nozze di Figaro'' in Glyndebourne and with the Zurich Opera. In concert she appeared and recorded with the and took part in the project of Ton Koopman to record the complete vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir. In 2011 she performed the ''Liebesliederwalzer'' of Brahms and ''Spanische Liebeslieder'' op. 138 of Schumann with Anke Vondung, Werner Güra and Konrad Jarnot at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Poppen
Christoph Poppen (born 9 March 1956) is a German conductor, violinist and academic teacher. Career Poppen was born in Münster. As a violinist, he was awarded first prize in the Kocian Violin Competition age 14. He studied the violin with Kurt Schäffer at the Robert Schumann Hochschule, later with Oscar Shumsky, Nathan Milstein, and Joseph Gingold.Background Information ECM 2001 In 1978, Poppen founded the Cherubini Quartet, winning in 1981 at the international string quartet competition in Evian. He was the conductor of the chamber orchestra Detmolder Kammerorchester from 1989 to 1995. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Molinelli
Roberto Molinelli (born 1963, Ancona) is an Italian composer, conductor and violist. He has graduated with honors and won prizes in national and international competitions. His CD on Carl Reinecke's chamber music was awarded with "CD of the Month" prize on "CD Classical" magazine. As a composer, arranger and conductor he has collaborated with many Artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman, Gustav Kuhn, Cecilia Gasdia, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Valeria Esposito, Andrea Griminelli, Valeria Moriconi, Federico Mondelci, Enrico Dindo, Elena Zaniboni, Danilo Rossi, Giorgio Zagnoni. His premières have been performed by many Orchestras worldwide ( Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, La Scala Theatre, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, Slovenian Radio-TV Orchestra, Orchestra Haydn Bozen, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, I Solisti di Pavia with Enrico Dindo, Euroradio Concerts live via satellite, Symph. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Morath-Pusinelli
Petra Morath-Pusinelli (* 1967) is a German organist. She studied Catholic Church Music at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Since 1984 she has been an organist at the church St. Kilian, Wiesbaden, and accompanied various choirs, including the Reger-Chor from the late 1980s and the Bachchor Mainz, conducted by Ralf Otto. She has been a lecturer at the University of Mainz since May 2006. In 1990, Petra Morath was the organist in John Rutter's ''Requiem'' in the version for chamber ensemble, with the Reger-Chor, Monika Fuhrmann (soprano) and instrumentalists, conducted by Gabriel Dessauer, recorded live in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden. In 2008 she played the organ part in Otto's album ''Noël: French Romantic Music for Christmas'' (2008). In November 2009 she played Duruflé's Requiem with a choir of volunteers in a memorial concert against Antisemitism Antisemitism or Jew-hatred is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'arpa Festante
is a German chamber orchestra, specializing in the revival and performance of unknown works, especially from the Baroque music, Baroque era. It was established in Munich in 1983 by Michi Gaigg, who also led the ensemble as concertmaster until 1995. The ensemble takes its name from Giovanni Battista Maccioni's dramatic cantata (''The Festive Harp'') which was first performed in 1653, inaugurating what was to become the Bavarian State Opera. plays in varying ensembles of up to 40 players, often with choirs and soloists. Early music is played on period instruments in historically informed performances. The orchestra's focus is on revivals of less-known works of the Baroque in Southern Germany, music by members of the Bach family, and oratorios of the Baroque and Classical period (music), Classical periods. The orchestra played Bach's Mass in B minor with the Frankfurter Kantorei, conducted by Winfried Toll. They performed the work at the Cathedral of Trier with the cathedral choir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Boesch
Florian Boesch (born 17 May 1971) is an Austrian bass-baritone, voice teacher and opera singer, who is especially known as a Lieder interpreter. Life Boesch was born in Saarbrücken, West Germany, and is the son of Christian Boesch.Barbara Boisits, Georg Demcisin: Boesch, Familie. In ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon''. Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ; Print edition: vol 1, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften press, Vienna 2002, . He took his first singing lessons from his grandmother, Kammersängerin Ruthilde Boesch, and later studied lied and oratorio at the Musikhochschule Wien with Robert Holl from 1997. He made his debut with a recital in the Vienna Musikverein. In 2002, he first appeared at the Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg. At the end of 2003, he appeared as Papageno in Mozart's ''Die Zauberflöte'' at the Opernhaus Zürich, and subsequently sang at the Volksoper Wien, at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Bregenz Festival, the Styriarte Graz, the Staatsoper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Jörg Mammel
Hans Jörg Mammel (born in Stuttgart) is a German tenor in opera and concert. Mammel received his first musical training as a member of the boys' choir Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben. After aborting legal studies, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg with Winfried Toll, Werner Hollweg and Ingeborg Most. After several master classes in Europe, Mammel collaborated with conductors such as Thomas Hengelbrock, Markus Teutschbein, Marcus Creed and Philippe Herreweghe. Mammel's repertoire includes major concert works and operas including song cycles and contemporary music. He has participated in premieres of works by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Mammel sang among others the title role of Monteverdi's ''L'Orfeo'' in Iceland. He was a guest artist at the Theater Freiburg, the Theater Koblenz and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. In 2008 Mammel performed the title role in Mozart's ''La clemenza di Tito (''The Clemency of Titus''), K. 621, is an ''opera seria'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anke Vondung
Anke Vondung (born in Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate in 1972) is a German mezzo-soprano. She was a member of the Semperoper, Semperoper Dresden from 2003 to 2006. Career She won third prize in the 1998 ARD International Music Competition in Munich. She has sung the roles of Dorabella in ''Così fan tutte'', Octavian in ''Der Rosenkavalier'', and the title role in ''Carmen''. Vondung has sung at German State Operas such as the Semperoper in Dresden, the Berlin State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, at the Metropolitan Opera, the Théâtre du Châtelet, as well as at the Salzburg Festival, Salzburg and Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Glyndebourne Festivals She also sings Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach's sacred music. At the 2011 Rheingau Musik Festival, she performed the ''Liebesliederwalzer'' by Johannes Brahms, Brahms and ''Spanische Liebeslieder'', op. 138, by Robert Schumann, Schumann with Ruth Ziesak, Werner Güra and Konrad Jarnot at Schloss Johannisberg. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simona Houda-Šaturová
Simona Houda-Šaturová is a Slovak classical soprano who has had an active international career performing in operas, concerts, and recitals since the early 1990s. In 2001, she was honored with a Thalia Award and in 2007 she won the Charlotte and Walter Hamel Award for outstanding vocal achievement. She has worked at many of the world's best opera houses and concert stages, singing under such conductors as Rolf Beck, Jiří Bělohlávek, Sylvain Cambreling, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Christoph Eschenbach, John Fiore, Ádám Fischer, Christopher Hogwood, Manfred Honeck, Sir Neville Marriner, Tomáš Netopil, and Helmuth Rilling among others. Biography Šaturová was born in Bratislava; she took her first violin lesson at the age of five and went on to study at the Bratislava Conservatory. She also attended master classes led by Ileana Cotrubas in Vienna and in Amsterdam. She began her career as a member of the Prague Chamber Opera from 1991–1995. She was a member of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralf Otto
Ralf Otto (born 1956) is a German conductor, especially known as a choral conductor and academic teacher. He founded the Vokalensemble Frankfurt, focused on contemporary music and winning competitions including Let the Peoples Sing. Since 1986, he has been director of the Bachchor Mainz, with a tradition of performing Bach cantatas in broadcast church services. He added late romantic and contemporary works to their repertoire and made international tours with them. They made world premiere recordings of some cantatas by Bach's oldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, among other recordings. Otto was professor of choral conducting at the Folkwang Hochschule from 1990 to 2006, when he took the same position at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz. Life and career Vokalensemble Frankfurt Otto was born in Kassel. While still studying church music at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt, Otto founded the Vokalensemble Frankfurt in 1981. With this chamber choir, consisting of young, partly professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
