Cappella Amsterdam
Cappella Amsterdam is a Dutch choir that has specialized in both early and contemporary music, experimenting with vocal techniques appropriate to each of these repertories. The group is noted for its distinctive vocal blend, which has attracted a variety of contemporary composers.
The choir is one of the more durable ensembles on the Dutch scene, having been founded in 1970. Its first director was Jan Boeke; its music director as of the mid-2020s is Daniel Reuss, who was appointed in 1990 and transformed the choir into a professional ensemble. The 25 members of Cappella Amsterdam emphasize Dutch repertory from both the Renaissance and modern eras; music by such composers as Sweelinck, Lassus, Ton de Leeuw, Robert Heppener, and Klaas de Vries is frequently performed. The choir maintains a busy schedule of concerts around the Netherlands and beyond and has appeared at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Holland Festival, and the Rheingau Musik Festival. Cappella Amsterdam collaborates often with both instrumental and operatic ensembles. The choir made its recording debut on the Hyperion label in 1997 with a recording of Ivan Moody's Passion and Resurrection and has since released albums on Challenge Classics, Harmonia Mundi, and Glossa (a pair of Bach recordings with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century).
The group has participated in productions of Rameau's Les Indes galantes with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under Frans Brüggen and of Tan Dun's opera Marco Polo. The choir's instrumental collaborators have included early music groups, traditional orchestral ensembles, and modern groups: the Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Ensemble Intercontemporain; it has also joined with the SWR Vocal Ensemble and the RIAS Kammerchor from Germany. Noted for its homogenous vocal blend, Cappella Amsterdam has recorded for prestigious labels that emphasize strong engineering. Cappella Amsterdam recorded Arvo Pärt's Kanon Pokajanen for Harmonia Mundi in 2016 and returned to Glossa the following year, again teamed with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century for a historically informed reading of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123, and in 2019, it departed again from the early music - contemporary duality with a recording of Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem. The group remained active through the COVID-19 pandemic, releasing the album Roland de Lassus: Inferno on Harmonia Mundi in 2020 and then moving to Channel Classics for the Renaissance-contemporary program In Umbra Mortis in 2021, David Lang: the writings (based on Hebrew biblical texts) in 2022, and a recording of Alfred Schnittke's Psalms of Repentance in 2023. By that time, the group's recording catalog comprised more than 20 choice releases.
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Schnittke: Psalms of Repentance
Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss, Martin Logar
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by PentaTone on 28 Apr 2023
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Missa Sancti Georgii
Cappella Amsterdam, Holland Baroque, Daniel Reuss
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Lust ende Jubel on 2 Jun 2023
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Josquin des Prez : Miserere mei Deus
Daniel Reuss, Cappella Amsterdam
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by harmonia mundi on 26 Oct 2018
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The Fire Within (Live at the Holland Festival)
Sami Yusuf, Cappella Amsterdam, Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra
Miscellaneous - Released by Andante Records on 9 May 2023
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One (Live at the Holland Festival)
Sami Yusuf, Cappella Amsterdam, Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra
Miscellaneous - Released by Andante Records on 20 Mar 2023
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The Meeting (Live at the Holland Festival)
Sami Yusuf, Cappella Amsterdam, Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra
World - Released by Andante Records on 30 Jan 2023
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In umbra mortis
Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by PENTATONE on 14 May 2021
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David Lang: The Writings
Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by PentaTone on 6 Oct 2022
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Johannes Brahms : Warum (Choral Works)
Cappella Amsterdam and Daniel Reuss
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by harmonia mundi on 17 Nov 2014
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Lassus: Inferno
Daniel Reuss, Cappella Amsterdam
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 22 May 2020
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Leoš Janáček: Choral Works
Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
Classical - Released by harmonia mundi on 24 Jan 2012
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Brahms: 5 Gesänge, Op. 104
Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by harmonia mundi on 17 Nov 2014
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Concerto pour piano
Ralph Van Raat, Cappella Amsterdam, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Otto Tausk
Classical - Released by Naxos on 31 Jan 2011
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Wolpe: Zeus und Elida etc
Ebony Band, Cappella Amsterdam, Werner Herbers
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 21 Dec 1999
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Karitas (Live at The Holland Festival)
Sami Yusuf, Cappella Amsterdam, Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra
World - Released by Andante Records on 12 Dec 2022
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Elégie pour les villes détruites
Cappella Amsterdam, Doelenensemble, Daniel Reuss
Classical - Released by Donemus Composers' Voice on 1 Jun 2000
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Lang: the writings
Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by PentaTone on 6 Oct 2022
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In umbra mortis
Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by PENTATONE on 14 May 2021
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Missa Sancti Georgii (Radio Edit)
Cappella Amsterdam, Holland Baroque, Daniel Reuss
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Lust ende Jubel on 8 Sep 2023
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Orestes
Cappella Amsterdam, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Asko Ensemble
Classical - Released by Donemus Composers' Voice on 1 Jan 2001
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Léonin: Magister Leoninus, Vol. 1 – Sacred Music from 12th-Century Paris
Classical - Released by Hyperion on 1 Aug 1997
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