Anne Bierwirth

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Anne Bierwirth
Born
Unkel, West Germany
Education
OccupationClassical contralto

Anne Bierwirth is a German contralto, focused on concerts and recordings of sacred music, appearing internationally. Besides the standard repertoire such as Bach's Christmas Oratorio, she has explored rarely performed Baroque music such as Bach's St Mark Passion and Reinhard Keiser's Passion oratorio Der blutige und sterbende Christus.

Career

Bierwirth was born in

Freiburger Vokalensemble and La Stagione Frankfurt, also touring internationally.[2]

Bierwirth took part in a 2009 performance and live recording of cantatas by

Erlöserkirche, Bad Homburg, on 8 January 2011, with the church's Bach-Chor conducted by Susanne Rohn [de].[2] She recorded church music by Zelenka in 2011 with the Marburger Bachchor, soloists Katia Plaschka, Christian Dietz and Markus Flaig, and the orchestra L'arpa festante conducted by Nicolo Sokoli.[6] In 2013, she recorded a reconstructed version of Bach's St Mark Passion with the Knabenchor Hannover, conducted by Jörg Breiding, in 2013.[7] In 2018, she took part in a performance and recording of the first German Passion oratorio, Reinhard Keiser's Der blutige und sterbende Christus, at the Bachfest Leipzig, conducted by Bernhard Klapprott [de].[8][9]

Soloists left, orchestra and choir on risers at a Baroque church
Bach: Christmas Oratorio at the Unionskirche, Idstein, 9 December 2018, Bierwirth second from left

In December 2018, she appeared as soloist in a complete performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the

Ich lasse dich nicht and motets by Johann Michael Bach and Johann Christoph Bach at the Festival Alte Musik Knechtsteden, conducted by Edzard Burchard, and repeated at the Köthener Herbst festival.[11]

musicians performing socially distanced during the pandemic
Cantata rehearsal at Dreikönigskirche, Frankfurt, 29 November 2020, Georg Böhm: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, Bierwirth in the centre

Bierwirth was planned as the soloist in an oratorio with light show at the

Bruges conducted by Winfried Krane, were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[12] On 29 November 2020, she performed in a cantata service at the Dreikönigskirche, Frankfurt, in Georg Böhm's chorale cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland with four other soloists and no choir due to the restrictions.[13] She was a soloist in a Europe-wide broadcast of Christmas music on 20 December 2020, singing in a Christmas oratorio compiled from cantatas by Georg Philipp Telemann, and performed that day at the Cologne Trinitatiskirche [de] conducted by Max.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Bierwirth". musique.opus-31.fr (in French). Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  2. ^
    Erlöserkirche, Bad Homburg
    . 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Anne Bierwirth" (in German). Bachwoche Ansbach. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  4. ^ Veen, Johan van (March 2011). "Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) / Hamburger Quartalsmusiken". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  5. ^ Honsack, Daniel (7 April 2009). "Kraftvoll, samtig und zupackend". Wiesbadener Tagblatt (in German).
  6. ^ "Dixit Dominus". jdzelenka.net (in German). Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Jörg Breiding & Knabenchor Hannover / Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works". Bach Cantatas Website. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  8. ^ Dippel, Roland H. (16 June 2018). "Reinhard Keisers "Der blutige und sterbende Jesus" beim Bachfest Leipzig". Neue Musikzeitung (in German). Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  9. ^ Veen, Johan van (February 2020). "Reinhard Keiser (1676–1739) / Der blutige und sterbende Jesus". musicweb-international. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  10. ^ Heeren-Pradt, Beke (24 November 2018). "Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium ökumenisch / Am zweiten Adventswochenende führen die Idsteiner Kantorei und der Chor St. Martin alle sechs Kantaten an zwei Tagen in der Unionskirche in Idstein auf". Wiesbadener Tagblatt.
  11. ^ "Chronik" (in German). Rheinische Kantorei. 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  12. ^ "Anne Bierwirth" (in German). Cologne Cathedral. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  13. ^ "Euroradio-Weihnachtstag Alte und neue Weihnachtsmusik / 13 Konzerte der Union Europäischer Rundfunkanstalten" (in German). Dreikönigskirche, Frankfurt. 20 December 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  14. ^ "Euroradio-Weihnachtstag Alte und neue Weihnachtsmusik / 13 Konzerte der Union Europäischer Rundfunkanstalten" (in German). HR. 20 December 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

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