Singer Pur
Singer Pur | |
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 The six members in 2013 | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Regensburg, Germany |
| Genres | a cappella music |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Website | www |
Singer Pur is a German vocal sextet founded in 1991 by former members of the Regensburger Domspatzen. The five original members were joined by a soprano in 1994. The sextet is focussed on classical music, but who have also performed and recorded traditional folk songs and pop music. Singer Pur have recorded more than 30 CDs. Singer Pur have given concerts and workshops in nearly 60 countries all over the world.[1][2][3][4]
Members
Recent members
- Claudia Reinhard – soprano
- Christian Meister – tenor
- Markus Zapp – tenor
- Manuel Warwitz – tenor
- Jakob Steiner – baritone
- Felix Meybier - bass
Former members
- Caroline Wegmann – soprano
- Hedwig Westhoff-Düppmann – soprano
- Ulrike Hofbauer – soprano
- Claus Werner – tenor
- Christian Wegmann – tenor
- Guido Heidloff – baritone
- Andreas Hirtreiter – tenor
- Thomas E. Bauer – baritone
- Klaus Wenk – tenor
- Rüdiger Ballhorn – tenor
- Reiner Schneider-Waterberg – baritone
- Marcus Schmidl – bass
Discography
- 1994 - Singer Pur Vokalsolistenensemble - .
- 1995 - Factor Orbis
- 1996 - Nordisk Vokalmusik Nordic Vocal Music - Elisabet Hermodson. Ars Musici
- 1997 - Musik für Stimmen Music for Voices. Weiss and Douglas (arr. Neil Hefti. Ars Musici
- 1999 - Orlando di Lasso: Tous les regrez Ars Musici
- 2002 - Jacobus Gallus: Moralia Harmoniae Morales Latin secular works 3CD (excerpts on 1CD) Ars Musici
- 2003 - Ahi Vita Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Phinot and Striggio with clarinettist de:Michael Riessler
- 2003 - Electric Seraphim Singer Pur & de:Go Guitars. Works for choir and electric guitars Dufay, Pipelare, Venosa, Cage, Pärt, Michael Hirsch, Bernhard Weidner and Fredrik Zeller. K&K Verlagsanstalt
- 2004 - Rihm, Sciarrino, Moody, Metcalf - Wolfgang Rihm: Tenebrae factae sunt, Salvatore Sciarrino: Responsorio delle tenebre a sei voci, Ivan Moody: Lamentation of the Virgin, Joanne Metcalf. with The Hilliard Ensemble
- 2005 - Herztöne - Lovesongs. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Jacques Chailley, George Gershwin, Percy Grainger, Carroll Coates: "London by night," Volkslied, Burt Bacharach, Volksweise, Chick Corea, Billy Joel.
- 2006 - SOS - Save Our Songs!
- 2007 - Das Hohelied der Liebe - Settings from the Song of Songs - Ludwig Sennfl, Wilhelm Keller
- 2008 - Memento: Lassus
- 2008 - Drei Schiffe sah ich segeln nach Bethlehem! German Christmas carols for mixed choir: Hans Schanderl, Reiko Füting, Peter Wittrich, William Hawley, Wolfram Buchenberg
- 2009 - Adrian Willaert: Musica Nova 1559 (Vol.I - Petrarch madrigals 2CD)
- 2010 - Letztes Glück - Songs of the German Romantics: Works by Oehms
- 2012 - Sting: Singer Pur sings Sting Sting a-cappella
- 2010 - Jeremiah - Lamentations by Palestrina and Gesualdo with Sony Classics
- 2011 - Renaissance am Rhein - motets, songs and chansons of the 16th century Petit Jean de Latre, Nicolaus Zangius, Andreas Pevernage, Konrad Hagius, Martin Peudargent, Johannes de Cleve, Orlando di Lasso, Johannes Mangon
- 2012 - Roland de Lassus Biographie musicale vol. II (Vol.I is by another ensemble) Musique en Wallonie
- 2013 - Oehms
- 2013 - Gioseffo Zarlino Modulationes sex vocum (1566) Singer Pur
- 2015 - Der Singer Pur Adventskalender - 24 German Advent songs
- 2016 - Gavin Bryars - The I Tatti Madrigals
- 2016 - Advents- und Weihnachtszeit mit Singer Pur Advent songs and Christmas carols
- 2017 - Sagenhaft! - 25 Jahre Singer Pur
- 2017 - Best of Singer Pur a double CD with 35 songs out of productions with the label OehmsClassics from the years 2003-2015
- 2019 - Horizons - Der Geist weht, wo er will
- 2021 - Lou Koster: Der Geiger von Echternach - a cantata for solo voices, piano, violin and vokal ensemble
- 2021 - Among Whirlwinds - compositions by women for voices Frauen
- 2022: Musica Divina - Göttliche Vokalmusik aus der Schatztruhe Carl Proskes
- 2022: SENFL featuring Ensemble Leones
Publications
- (book) Sheets: SOS - Save Our Songs! - German folksongs edited for mixed choir, Schott Music ED 20301
- (book) Sheets: Drei Schiffe sah ich segeln nach Bethlehem - German Christmas carols edited for mixed choir, Schott Music ED 20711
- (book) Sheets: Der Singer Pur Adventskalender - 24 German Advent songs edited for mixed choir, Schott Music ED 22344
References
- ^ Peter Hugh Reed ArG: American record guide 1998 - Page 241 "Singer Pur— Ars Musici 1208 (Qualiton) 64 min Singer Pur is a sextet consisting of one soprano, three tenors, a baritone, and a bass. They create smooth, homogenized, lovely tones as they croon these selections by Stenhammar, Fougstedt, ..."
- ^ "Official website biography".
- ^ ZDF[permanent dead link] 21 oct. 2007 – Singer Pur sind daran gewöhnt, dass Konzertveranstalter ihre Programmkonzepte anfänglich mit einem Stirnrunzeln quittieren:
- ^ "Von der unterschiedlichen Art, in den Akkord hineinzugehen | Ausgabe: 11/98 | nmz - neue musikzeitung". www.nmz.de.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Singer Pur.
- Literature by and about Singer Pur in the German National Library catalogue
- Official website
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