Amarcord (ensemble)
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Background information | |
Origin | Leipzig, Germany |
Genres | a cappella music |
Years active | 1992 | –present
Website | www |
Amarcord is a German male classical
Singers
The ensemble typically performs as a quintet, singers have included:
- Wolfram Lattke (tenor)
- Robert Pohlers (tenor)
- Martin Lattke (tenor)
- Dietrich Barth (tenor)
- Frank Ozimek (baritone)
- Daniel Knauft (bass)
- Holger Krause (bass)
Career and program
As members of the
The first half of their concert programs is typically devoted to sacred music, while the second half shows secular music. In their first concert at the
In 2009 they participated in a performance and live recording of Bach's lost
International festival for vocal music a cappella
In 1997 the singers initiated an annual international summer festival in
Music composed for the ensemble amarcord
Contemporary composers such as
Prizes and awards
The Ensemble Amarcord won prizes at competitions in Tolosa, Spain (1995, Second Prize, Profane), Tampere (1999, Joint Third Prize), and the 1st Choir Olympiad in Linz (2000). In 2002 the ensemble won the German music competition Deutscher Musikwettbewerb[11] and in 2004 the prize of the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Music Festival of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).[1]
The ensemble won the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award (CARA) of the Contemporary A Cappella Society several times, first in 2002 for their album Hear the voice, a collection of sacred music of composers Thomas Tallis, Francis Poulenc, Rudolf Mauersberger, Josquin des Prez, Darius Milhaud, William Byrd, Carl Orff, Pierre de la Rue, Peter Cornelius, and Marcus Ludwig.[12] The program and the singing were reviewed:[13]
"... the offering of works by Orff, Peter Cornelius, Rudolf Mauersberger, and Marcus Ludwig shows Ensemble Amarcord well attuned to their national heritage. The Orff work, "Sunt lacrimae rerum" is notably rhythmicized and reiterative, and an interesting contrast to the supple lines of the earlier Renaissance works. Similarly, Ludwig's "Tenebrae" explores a clustery palette and features some of the ensemble’s best soft singing."
In 2006 they won the CARA in the categories "Best classical album" with Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland and also the second prize with Incessament, they won in the category "Best classical song" with Sanctus Incessament and second prize with Sic Deus Dilexit.
"However, the Ensemble Amarcord itself deserves full credit for its breathtakingly smooth blend and celestial sweetness of tone. As with the Brumel work on the disc previously discussed, this is a worldpremiere recording of this lovely and important piece."
In 2010 their album Rastlose Liebe won the CARA in the category "Best classical album".[17][18] Rastlose Liebe (restless love), after a song by Robert Schumann, is a collection of works of composers who lived in Leipzig in the 19th century, such as Felix Mendelssohn, Adolf Eduard Marschner, Heinrich Marschner, Carl Steinacker, August Mühling, and Carl Friedrich Zöllner.[1] In 2012 they were awarded the Echo Klassik Awards in the category "Ensemble of the year, vocal music" for their Album Das Lieben bringt groß' Freud!.[19]
Discography
- Insalata a cappella (2001)
- In Adventu Domini (2001)
- Hear the voice (2001)[6]
- And So It Goes (2002) The longest time; New York, New York; Breakfast in America; Blackbird; Juramento; In This Heart; Somebody to love; Only you; Hit the Road Jack; Rain in May; Since You Went Away; Can't Buy Me Love; Strangers in the Night; Good Vibrations; That Lonesome Road; And So It Goes.
- ensemble amarcord (2003)
- Pierre de la Rue: Incessament (2005)
- Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (2005)
- Vita S. Elisabeth (2006)
- The Book of Madrigals (2007) Senfl.
- Album français (2008)Saint-Saëns.
- Heimlich Heimlich, EP (2009)
- Rastlose Liebe (2009):Marschner
- Bach: Markus-Passion (2010)
- Von den letzten Dingen, with Cappella Sagittariana Dresden (2010) Anonymus: Gott sei mir gnädig (Psalm 51), Stephan Otto, Rosenmüller, Heinrich Schütz: Mit dem Amphion zwar; Musikalische Exequien, Schein, Heinrich Scheidemann, Michael Praetorius.
- anon.: Historia de Compassione Gloriosissimae Virginis Mariae, Marian office of the 15th century CPO (2010)
- Annees de Pelerinage (2011)
- Das Lieben bringt groß Freud!, works for male quartet and string quartet by Friedrich Silcher, Moritz Kässmayer and Max Reger, with Leipziger Streichquartett (2011)
- Jauchzet dem Herren alle Welt (2011), with Cappella Sagittariana Dresden
- Années de pèlerinage, madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo, Luca Marenzio (2011), complementing Liszt's piano work played by Ragna Schirmer[21]
- Coming Home for Christmas (2011)
- Zu S. Thomas (2012)
- Chronik: Nahaufnahme – 20 Jahre amarcord (book with two CDs) (2012)
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Die Motetten (2012)
- Folks & Tales (2013)
- The Madrigal Book DVD (2014)
- Marienvesper (2014)
- Schubert (2016)
- Tenebrae (2017)
DVD
- OCLC 57126504.
References
- ^ a b c d "Ensemble Amarcord – Restless Love: Rastlose Liebe". singers.com. 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
- ^ Cookson, Michael (2010). "Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) St. Mark Passion, BWV 247". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
- ^ "Marienvesper / von Claudio Monteverdi / in Kooperation mit dem Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg" (in German). lauttencompagney.de. 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
- ^ Zibulski, Axel (17 August 2011). "Rheingau Musik Festival: Claudio Monteverdis "Marienvesper" in der Basilika von Kloster Eberbach". Wiesbadener Tagblatt (in German). Archived from the original on 17 August 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ^ "Ensemble Amarcord (Vocal Ensemble)". Bach Cantatas Website. 2007. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ^ a b "Hear The Voice – Tallis, etc / Ensemble Amarcord". ArkivMusic. 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ^ "Ivan Moody List of Works". Ivan Moody. 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ^ Petra Rieß (2005). "6. Saarbrücker Kammerkonzert" (in German). Saarländischer Rundfunk. Archived from the original on 12 February 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ^ "Bernd Franke Werke Vokal" (in German). Bernd Franke. 2006. Archived from the original on 4 August 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ^ "Aristides Strongylis List of Works". Aristides Strongylis. 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2010.
- ^ "Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger des DMW" (in German). Deutscher Musikrat. 2010. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ "Prayer to God / amarcord". International Izmir Festival. 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
- ^ "Hear the Voice and Prayer". operatoday.com. 23 September 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2010.
- ^ "Amarcord reviews". towerhill-recordings.com. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
- ^ "Pierre de la Rue (c.1460–1518) – A discography". medieval.org. 2006. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
- ^ Rick Anderson (2006). "Briefly noted". britannica.com. Retrieved 1 July 2010.
- ^ Sanden, Ute van der. "Rastlose Liebe zur Kunst des reinen Gesangs". Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 1 July 2010.
- ^ "Amarcord". oslokammermusikkfestival.no. 2010. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 2 July 2010.
- ^ "Echo Klassik 2012: Die Gewinner". musikmarkt.de (in German). 10 July 2012. Archived from the original on 24 August 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
- ^ "Album Français – Poulenc, Milhaud, Cras, etc / Ensemble Amarcord". ArkivMusic. 2008. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
- ^ "Liszt: Annees De Pelerinage; Gesualdo, Marenzio: Madrigals / Ragna Schirmer, Amarcord Ensemble". ArkivMusic. 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
External links
- Official website
- Amarcord at AllMusic
- amarcord Rosenthal Management
- Amarcord Colbert Artists Management 2022
- amarcord reviews RARB.org