Classical Music

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The Berlin vocal ensemble sirventes Berlin and it's director Stefan Schuck present a real Berlin Christmas album: Berlin composers from the 19th to 21st centuries are collected here on one release, from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Carl Thiel, Albert Becker, Peter Cornelius and Heinrich von Herzogenberg to the contemporary composer Frank Schwemmer. In addition to such famous works as "Frohlocket, ihr V�lker" by Mendelssohn, numerous unknown treasures have been rediscovered. Stefan Schuck founded the vocal ensemble sirventes Berlin in 2003 to perform the world premiere of the a cappella cantata "that they may life" by the Jewish composer Josef Dorfman as part of the Ecumenical Kirchentag in Berlin. Since 2008 the ensemble works regularly for the NoonSong. The outstanding quality of the ensemble is a testament to their intense and hard work.

On the occasion of it's 40th anniversary Carus has initiated a new series Carus Classics, featuring ten outstanding CD productions from the past library of recordings. This exclusive collection, designed by Friedrich Forssman and Cornelia Feyll, is presented in high-quality DigiPacs and each CD includes an extensive booklet. '... exemplary recording.' (New Classics, September 2005)

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Isfried Kayser (1712-1771) spent almost his entire life in the Premonstratensian Abbey marchtal, where he soon gained a reputation as an especially versatile musician. Numerous spiritual organizations commissioned church music or sacred music dramas. As a play of words on his surname (Kaiser - Emperor), his confreres soon called him the ''Caesar of Music.'' His Magnificat and the Missa VI are presented here in a recording together with several smaller works; they document Kayser's extraordinary accomplishments. These majestically sacred works are interpreted by the Orpheus Vokalensemble and Ars Antiqua Austria under the direction of Jurgen Essl.

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On the occasion of it's 40th anniversary Carus has initiated a new series Carus Classics, featuring ten outstanding CD productions from the past library of recordings. This exclusive collection, designed by Friedrich Forssman and Cornelia Feyll, is presented in high-quality DigiPacs and each CD includes an extensive booklet. '... exemplary recording.' (New Classics, September 2005)

In April 1999 the first concert by Calmus Ensemble took place near Leipzig. Four young singers made their debut as an ensemble after their time in the famous St Thomas's Choir. The beginning of an impressive career: scholarship holders of the Deutscher Musikrat, first prize in competitions in Germany, Spain, Finland, and the USA, workshops and master classes, 22 albums, over 1,200 concerts in twenty countries. Since their concert debut in 1999, the line-up and number of members of the ensemble has changed several times, but one thing has remained constant: blend, precision, lightness, and humor. These four characteristics are the hallmarks of Calmus, making the ensemble one of the most successful vocal groups in Germany. Their wide range of sound colors, joy in performing and kind of sound, but also their varied and imaginative programs delight audiences time and time again - both at home and abroad. And the range of repertoire on this journey has been almost unlimited: shaped by the tradition of St. Thomas's Choir, the singers are naturally at home in the vocal music of the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Romantic, but the music of our own time is also a major focus. Over the years Calmus has commissioned and premiered many compositions, including works by Paul Moravec, Steffen Schleiermacher, and Wolfram Buchenberg. For their 20th anniversary, a compilation with highlights from Calmus' extensive discography is being released. Not only simply a 'best of', but a virtuoso look back at two outstandingly successful decades of Calmus Ensemble!

The solistenensemble stimmkunst, founded in 2003 for the widely-acclaimed concert cycle “Bach:vokal” at the Stiftskirche Stuttgart, presents vocal music composed by Kay Johannsen. Johannsen – Kantor of the Stiftskirche, an organist with a busy international career, passionate improviser, enquiring choral and orchestral conductor, and composer with a fine feeling for sound and rhythm – wrote the pieces between 2001 and 2018. The varied program includes compositions for different unaccompanied choral scorings, plus works for solo, choir and instrumental accompaniment. Kay Johannsen studied in Freiburg and Boston as a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation (New York). Since 1994 he has been kantor at the Stiftskirche in Stuttgart, director of the weekly Stunde der Kirchenmusik, of the Stuttgarter Kantorei, the solistenensemble stimmkunst, the Stiftsphilharmonie, the ensemble Stiftsbarock Stuttgart and of the concert series Bach:vokal 2011-2021.

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