Frieder Bernius
Frieder Bernius is a pillar of choral music culture in Stuttgart, Germany, founding several ensembles and conducting performances that are often historically oriented. He has also conducted orchestral music, and he has an exceptionally large recording catalog.
Bernius was born on June 22, 1947, in Ludwigshafen, in what was then West Germany. His father was a Protestant minister, and his mother was a church musician. Bernius attended a Gymnasium high school in Mannheim and then studied music performance and musicology at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart and the University of Tübingen. At the former, in 1968, he founded the Kammerchor Stuttgart ("Stuttgart Chamber Choir"). He also conducted various German radio choirs in the 1970s, but he continued to develop the sound of the Kammerchor Stuttgart; it had begun with a repertory of 19th and 20th century a cappella music, but by the mid-'80s, it had turned decisively toward early music. He remained the choir's director in the early 2020s. The group began to record for the Carus (Carus-Verlag) label, issuing Hör mein Bitten, an album of Mendelssohn's church music, in 1983. In 1985, he founded the Barockorchester Stuttgart ("Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra") and later the Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart.
Beginning in the 1980s, the Kammerchor Stuttgart began to tour widely, in North and South America and in Asia as well as Europe, and a series of visits to Israel, still unusual for a German group at the time, began in 1984. Signed to the Sony Classical label in 1989, Bernius released albums there in the 1990s with the Kammerchor Stuttgart and other groups; he led a recording of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice with the Baroque group Tafelmusik in 1993. His recordings won several major prizes, including the Edison Prize in the Netherlands, for a recording with the Cologne Musica Fiata of Schütz's Symphoniae Sacrae III and France's Diapason d'Or for an album featuring Zelenka's Missa Dei Filii, again with Tafelmusik. Bernius also performed and recorded orchestral music, often with the Hofkapelle Stuttgart, of which he became music director in 2002. He has continued to record prolifically for Carus, Orfeo, Hänssler Classic, and other German labels, often issuing music by little-known Baroque and Classical-era composers such as Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda, and Justin Heinrich Knecht. By 2022, when he led the Kammerchor Stuttgart and Hofkapelle Stuttgart in a recording of Schubert's Mass in A flat major, D. 678, for Hänssler Classic, his recording catalog comprised some 120 items.
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Bach, J.S.: Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244
Barockorchester Stuttgart, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 08.04.2016
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Mendelssohn: String Symphonies Nos. 7, 9 & 12
Streicherakademie Bozen, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei haenssler CLASSIC am 17.08.2018
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Gottfried August Homilius: Sehet, welch eine Liebe. Motetten
Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 01.09.2004
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Brahms: Lieder und Romanzen
Klassik - Erschienen bei Sony Classical am 19.09.2005
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Mendelssohn: Christus. Kirchenwerke III
Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 01.10.1987
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Cherubini: Missa solemnis in D Minor (Live)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 01.08.2020
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Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 01.07.2008
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Romantic Moments For Male Choir
Taipei Male Choir, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 01.10.2015
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Otto Nicolai: Herr, auf dich traue ich. Psalmen
Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 01.04.2012
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Brahms: Lieder, Romanzen und Gesänge
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Harmonia Mundi am 01.05.1997
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Stabat Mater
Stuttgart Chamber Chorus, Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra
Geistliche Vokalmusik - Erschienen bei Brilliant Classics am 01.07.2009
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Jommelli: Il Vologeso
Klassik - Erschienen bei Orfeo am 01.01.2016
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Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda: Orchesterwerke
Daniel Sepec, Pierre-André Taillard, Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 01.10.2016
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Mendelssohn: Herr Gott, dich loben wir. Kirchenwerke IX
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 01.11.2008
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Jommelli: Didone abbandonata (3rd Version)
Oper - Erschienen bei Orfeo am 01.11.1995
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Fasch: Missa à 16 voci; Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 28.10.2019
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Spohr: Messe Op. 54 & 3 Psalmen Op. 85
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 01.08.2016
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Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht / R. Strauss: Metamorphosen
Streicherakademie Bozen, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 01.06.2003
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Hohes Lied
Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 01.01.2004
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Mendelssohn: Chöre für Männerstimmen
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 02.06.2023
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Messiaen: Cinq rechants, O sacrum convivium & A-cappella-Werke von Debussy, Ravel und Mahler (Arr. Clytus Gottwald)
Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius
Klassik - Erschienen bei Carus am 01.10.2021
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