Rostock Motet Choir
The Rostock Motet Choir was founded in 1964 by Hartwig Eschenburg and found early on with concerts in famous churches and concert halls in East Germany attention. The Rostock Motet Choir is part of the St. John's choir at St. John's Church in Rostock. The choir performed, among others, in the Dresden Cross Church, St. Thomas Church and the New Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the Berlin Konzerthaus. Many well-known soloists such as Peter Schreier and Güttler, worked together with the Rostock Motettenchor.
Concert tours abroad remained long denied the church choir. Only in 1988 there were performances in Poland, and in 1989, shortly before the political change, in Schleswig -Holstein. As the only church choir he was approved by the East German government to recordings. It has also made recordings of all of Bach motets and an LP titled " Evening Calm". Apart from numerous concerts in the old federal states, such as the completion of the Bach Academy in Stuttgart, toured the choir has a wide repertoire of a cappella and oratorio works from the classical to modern, already in Luxembourg, Denmark, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.
A highlight of 1995 was the participation at the Oregon Bach Festival in the USA, where the choir was involved in an international panel of performance of the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten, among others. In 2002, the choir was in England to host 2003 in Amsterdam. Continue to be traveling in Germany and abroad in planning. However, the focus of the commitment of the choir is located in Rostock and the surrounding area. So was designed by the choir in 2003, together with the Hilliard Ensemble, the final concert of the summer music Mecklenburg Vorpommern, with works by Arvo Pärt.
In April 2005, the choir led by Thomas Quasthoff on the "Elijah " by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. In summer 2005 the Rostock Motettenchor designed in collaboration with the Hilliard Ensemble for a one Heinrich Schütz program under the Festspiele Mecklenburg -Vorpommern and the other a Arvo Pärt program under the Rheingau Music Festival, in which the composer himself was present. 2012 was the Motettenchor in collaboration with The King's Singers during the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern a concert at Doberan Minster.
A concert tour with works of the Graz court orchestra led the choir with the orchestra " Barocco Locco " in autumn 2005 by the Netherlands. In February 2006, the choir sang the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach, among others, Thomas Quasthoff as Christ. The founder of the choir, church music director Hartwig Eschenburg, led the choir until 2000. Thereafter Markus Johannes Langer took over as head of St. John's church choir and thus also that of Rostock Motet Choir.
Discography
- Bach Motets on Bach Edition Leipzig 1980-1984 by Capriccio 2000
- Bach Motets on Bach Edition Leipzig 1980-1984 at Delta in 2006
- Abendstille Berlin 1988
- In Principio at aliud 2006
- Several CD with concert recordings self-publishing