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Die Thomaner Im 19. Jahrhundert
Thomanerchor Leipzig
Georg Christoph Biller, conductor
Seller includes a rare compact disc by the choir as a bonus!
Works by: Albert Becker, Johannes Brahms, Moritz Hauptmann, Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Arnold Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, August Eberhard Müller, Ernst Friedrich Richter, Wilhelm Rust, Johann Gottfriedschicht, Gustav Schreck and Christian Theodor Weinlig.
A tradition of more than 800 years in music and city history, a widely acknowledged contemporary reputation, almost one hundred boys and young men with individual personalities and a common passion for music, framed by a unique future-oriented cultural and educational landscape: That is Thomanerchor Leipzig.
On the CD with the Thomanerchor Leipzig, Georg Christoph Biller presents some of the motets of his predecessors in the office of Thomaskantor. In addition to the very productive Thomas Cantors, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Albert Becker and Johannes Brahms can also be counted as representatives of their own Leipzig motet style. The predominant mixture of cantable and polyphonic sections, solo and tutti passages in the Leipzig School and the frequent incorporation of an extended fugue are characteristic of many of these works, paired with real eight-voices. The works on this CD have been heard over and over again for almost 200 years in the motets and cantatas of St. Thomas Church - masterfully interpreted by the world-famous St. Thomas' Choir in Leipzig. Title List:
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