Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

The Monteverdi Choir of Hamburg is one of Germany's most famous concert choirs, who was known internationally by pioneering recordings and competitive price under its founder and longtime director Jürgen Jürgens. Since 1994, the Leipzig Conductor Gothart Taurus is the artistic director of the choir.

History

The Monteverdi Choir of Hamburg was founded in 1955 by Jürgen Jürgens as "Choir at the Italian Cultural Institute ". In the same year he was named at the suggestion of the institute's director in " Monteverdi Choir ," at a time when Claudio Monteverdi was a largely unknown composer. Since 1961, the choir is a member of the Academic Music Care, University of Hamburg, whose line Jürgen Jürgens as a university music director held from 1961 to 1993.

After four years of hard work building the Monteverdi Choir in 1959 was the International Choir Competition in Arezzo ( Italy) win a 1st prize for the first time. 1962 saw another first prize at the International Choir Competition in Lille (France). Then began an unprecedented in the field of amateur music international career for the choir.

In collaboration with Gustav Leonhardt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Frans Brüggen and Eduard Melkus created for the label The Old Factory Teldec and Deutsche Grammophon Archiv Produktion numerous groundbreaking recordings that were awarded prizes and the choir made ​​known internationally. Invitations to music festivals at home and abroad followed and led the choir in almost all the countries of Western and Eastern Europe, the Near East, in the USA, Central and Latin America, South East Asia, China and Australia.

After the sudden death of Jürgen Jürgens in August 1994 the Leipzig Conductor and former concert singer Gothart Taurus took over as artistic director of the Monteverdi Choir.

Repertoire

The choir's repertoire includes the full range of choral music from the Renaissance to the present. In his choral work Gothart bull continues the tradition of the Monteverdi Choir continues its focus is the a cappella work, and has expanded the range of the choir in his senses. So he could with his performances of great classical and romantic choral symphonic music from Bach to Verdi in collaboration with the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hall, the Central German Chamber Orchestra, the New Bach's Collegium Musicum Leipzig and members of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, some of which are documented on CD, at home and abroad celebrate successes.

Concert activities

In Hamburg, the Monteverdi Choir is comparatively little presence in recent years. The greater the attention and recognition that learns the choir as a cultural ambassador in Hamburg on his concert tours at home and abroad.

The previous highlights of the choral work with Gothart bull were:

  • Tour to Israel Festival Jerusalem in May 1996,
  • Israeli premiere of Paul von Mendelssohn as part of the liturgical festivals Jerusalem and the Musica Sacra festival - Nazareth in January 1998,
  • Performance of the Canti di Luigi Dallapiccola Prigionia at the Handel Festival in Halle in 1999,
  • Concert tours to Central America in September 1999 and 2001,
  • Performance of the Missa Solemnis by Ludwig van Beethoven in the St. Thomas Church in 1999,
  • Concert tour for " Tuba Mirum " Festival of the Hermitage (Saint Petersburg ) in June 2001,
  • Performance of the Stabat Mater by Domenico Scarlatti in the Göttingen Handel Festival 2002
  • Opening of the Leipzig Mendelssohn Festival with a performance of Elijah in the St. Thomas Church on 31 October 2002 together with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra,
  • Concert tour to China in October 2003,
  • Germany - tour with Handel's Messiah in December 2003,
  • Concert tour to the Baltic States in the fall of 2004,
  • Concert trip to Israel Festival to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations with Israel in May 2005,
  • Three performances of Paul von Mendelssohn in the Frauenkirche (Dresden) in March 2006,
  • Premiere of Marian Vespers of Claudio Monteverdi in February 2007 in St. Thomas' Church,
  • Concert tour to Shanghai Festival in March 2008,
  • Concert of works by Bach, Mendelssohn and Reger as part of the Bach Festival Leipzig 2009,
  • Three performances of Marian Vespers of Claudio Monteverdi in Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig,
  • Concert tour at the German Cultural days after St. Petersburg in November 2010
  • Tour through Lithuania in October 2011.

CD recordings (selection)

  • Holy Night - German carols and motets. Management: Gothart bull, Ambitus 96 824
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Paul and Stephanie Stiller, Christa Bonhoff, Christoph Genz, Siegfried Lorenz, Philharmonic State Orchestra Hall, conducted by Gothart bull, Ambitus 97942nd
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Elias with Stephanie Stiller, Annette Markert, Martin Petzold, Siegfried Lorenz, Philharmonic State Orchestra Hall, conducted by Gothart bull, Ambitus 97941st
  • Max Reger: Orchestral Songs by Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau, St. Michael's Choir, Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, conductor: Gerd Albrecht, Orfeo 209,901th
  • Come, ye shepherds - Christmas choral music -European peoples, Conductor: Jürgen Jürgens, Ambitus 97 856
  • Romantic Choral Music, Conductor: Jürgen Jürgens, Novalis 150032-2.
  • Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine ( Marien- Vesper 1610) with Barbara Schlick, Ine Kollecker, John Elwes, Wilfried Jochens, Holger Hampel, Christfried Biebrach, Gustav Hehring, Camerata Accademica Hamburg, Conductor: Jürgen Jürgens, Ambitus 383,826th
  • Marco da Gagliano: La Dafne with Norma Lerer, Barbara Schlick, Ine Kollecker, Nigel Rogers, Ian Partridge, David Thomas, Berthold Possemeyer, Camerata Accademica Hamburg, Conductor: Jürgen Jürgens, German Grammophon 437074-2.
  • Claudio Monteverdi: L' Orfeo with Ian Partridge, Nigel Rogers, John Elwes, Camerata Academy Hamburg, Conductor: Jürgen Jürgens, German Grammophon 002,894,428,723th
  • Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas with Tatiana Troyanos, Barry McDaniel, Sheila Armstrong, Patricia Johnson, Margaret Baker, Margaret Lensky, Paul Esswood, Nigel Rogers, Chamber Orchestra of the NDR, conductor: Charles Mackerras, Teldec 8573-81141-2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 198 ( Let, Princess, let still a beam - Trauerode ), Cantata No. 158 ( Peace be with you), Cantata No. 27 ( Who knows how near my end BWV 27? ) with Rotraud Hansmann, Helen Watts, Kurt Equiluz, Max van Egmond, Concerto Amsterdam, Conductor: Jürgen Jürgens, Teldec 4509093687-2.
  • Claudio Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine ( Marien- Vesper 1610) with Rotraud Hansmann, Irmgard Jacobeit, Nigel Rogers, Bert van't Hoff, Max van Egmond, Concentus Musicus Wien, conducted by Jürgen Jürgens, Teldec 4509-92175-2.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann: The Day of Judgment with Gertraud Landwehr -Herrmann, Cora Canne Meijer, Kurt Equiluz, Max van Egmond, Concentus Musicus Wien, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Teldec 9031-77621-2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 206 ( Creeps, playing waves) with Irmgard Jacobeit, Wilhelmine Mattes, Tom Brand, Jacques Villisech, Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra, conducted by André Rieu, Teldec 8573-81141-2.

Awards and prizes

Vinyl prices

  • Grand Prix du Disque in Paris: Monteverdi: Vespers of Mary; Telemann: Day of Judgment; Monteverdi: L' Orfeo; Scarlatti: Madrigals
  • Grand Prix du Disque Bruxelles: Bach: Trauerode
  • Price of the English Record Critics: Monteverdi: Vespers of Mary; Telemann: Judgment Day
  • HiFi Record of the Year USA: Monteverdi: Vespers of Mary
  • Sound and records USA - The years best recordings: Brahms: Sacred and secular choral music; Monteverdi: Vespers of Mary; Italian choral music of the present
  • Disco la Plata Argentina: In dulci jubilo

Competitive prices

  • Polifonico Concorso Internazionale " Guido d' Arezzo " Arezzo ( Italy) 1958: 3rd prize Folklore
  • 1959: 1st Prize Mixed Choir
  • 1960: 2nd Prize Mixed Choir
  • 1964: 2nd Prize 2nd Prize Mixed Choir & Men's Choir
  • 1967: 2nd Prize Mixed Choir
  • 1968: 2nd Prize 2nd Prize Mixed Choir & Men's Choir
  • 1970: 3rd Prize Mixed Choir
  • 1972: 2nd prize Men's Choir Women's Choir & 2nd Prize
  • 1977: 1st Prize Mixed Choir & 3rd prize Folklore
  • 1983: 3rd prize Männchor
Range (music) St. Paul (oratorio) Missa Solemnis (Beethoven) Elijah (oratorio) Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 Bachfest Leipzig Staatskapelle Halle Norddeutscher Rundfunk Alessandro Scarlatti Let the Peoples Sing
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