SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
The SWR Stuttgart Vocal Ensemble (aka the Vocal Ensemble of Southwest German Radio Stuttgart or, in German, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart) is one of the high-quality choirs connected with German state radio broadcasters and has worked with top German broadcast orchestras in Stuttgart and beyond, attracting an international roster of guest conductors and soloists. The ensemble was founded in 1946, with Otto-Werner Mueller as conductor. At the beginning, with Germany's musical life devastated, they furnished the bulk of the station's musical programming, which at the time operated as Radio Stuttgart under American administration. The choir began with 13 singers, expanding to a current total of 36. The choir changed its name to Choir of South German Radio in 1949, to Südfunk (Southern Radio) Choir in 1959, and to Südfunk Choir Stuttgart in 1992 before assuming its current name in 1998. From the beginning, the choir gave independent concerts as well as performing on the radio, and it made an appearance at the Donaueschingen Musiktage, a key event in the rebuilding of German musical life, in 1947, giving a world premiere performance of Hugo Herrmann's Des Friedens Geburt (The Birth of Peace). In its early years the choir gave varied programs of religious music, folk songs, operas, operettas, and music for radio plays, but as its career developed it has tended to specialize in modern compositions and has commissioned many works for world premieres. In addition to Mueller, the choir's conductors have been Hermann Josef Dahmen (1951-1975), Marinus Voorberg (1975-1981), Klaus Martin Ziegler (1981-1987), Rupert Huber (1990-2000), and (since 2003) the English-born Marcus Creed. The choir has teamed with the SWR orchestras of Freiburg, Stuttgart, and Baden-Baden, joining with such conductors as Georg Solti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Neville Marriner, John Eliot Gardiner, Pierre Boulez, Michael Gielen, Péter Eötvös, and Roger Norrington. The results have often been recorded and released on the SWR's own label as well as on the Haenssler Classic, Carus, and Wergo labels; on the latter they released the album Heinz Holliger: Choral Utopia in 2018. The choir's recordings have won the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik and ECHO Klassik awards. The choir is noted for its work with young people under the auspices of its VE Young Classix program of youth concerts and school visits.
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Artistas semelhantes
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Clytus Gottwald: Transkriptionen
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Marcus Creed
Choral Music (Choirs) - Lançado por Carus em 1 de dez. de 2006
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RIHM, W.: Quid est Deus / Ungemaltes Bild / Frau/Stimme (Rihm Edition, Vol. 4)
SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 1 de jan. de 1989
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Debussy, C.: Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune / Schmitt, F.: La Tragedie De Salome / Stravinsky, I.: Petrushka (Les Ballets Russes, Vol. 3)
SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Sylvain Cambreling
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 1 de out. de 2008
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Schnittke: Penitential Psalms - Voices of Nature
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Marcus Creed, Jochen Schorer
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 6 de mar. de 2012
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Himmelslieder (Britten, Pärt, Kaminski, Poulenc)
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 3 de jun. de 2016
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Berlioz: Vocal Works with Orchestra
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Sylvain Cambreling
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 1 de jan. de 2003
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Italia (Verdi, Scelsi, Nono, Pizzetti, Petrassi)
Choral Music (Choirs) - Lançado por SWR Classic em 2 de mar. de 2015
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MAHLER, G.: Symphony No. 2 / HAYDN, J.: Symphony No. 86 (Carl Schuricht Collection, Vol. 17) (1954, 1958)
Hanni Mack-Cosack, Hertha Töpper, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Stuttgart Bach Choir, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Carl Schuricht
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 1 de jan. de 2007
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Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Stéphane Denève
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 5 de fev. de 2016
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NONO: Cori di Didone / Da un diario italiano / Das atmende Klarsein
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Christoph Adt, Eva Furrer, Rupert Huber, Peter Bohm, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln
Choral Music (Choirs) - Lançado por SWR Classic em 1 de jan. de 1993
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SCHUMANN: Romances and Ballads
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 27 de abr. de 2010
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KURTAG: Choral Works
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Marcus Creed, Ensemble Modern
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 18 de set. de 2006
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Henze: Lieder von einer Insel, Orpheus Behind the Wire...
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Ensemble Modern, Marcus Creed
Secular Vocal Music - Lançado por SWR Classic em 13 de out. de 2017
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Russia
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Wakako Nakaso, Marcus Creed, Sabine Czinczel, Alexander Yudenkov, Mikhail Shashkov
Choral Music (Choirs) - Lançado por SWR Classic em 5 de ago. de 2014
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Elliott Carter: Choral Works
Andreas Grau, Eva-Maria Schappe, Mark Munkittrick, Götz Schumacher, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Marcus Creed
Choral Music (Choirs) - Lançado por SWR Classic em 1 de jan. de 2008
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BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2, Op. 73
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Carl Schuricht
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 15 de out. de 2004
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Friedrich Cerha: 4 Hölderlin-Fragmente
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Marcus Creed
Choral Music (Choirs) - Lançado por SWR Classic em 13 de jan. de 2023
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Der Musikalische Adventskalender
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 2 de set. de 2014
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Schumann: Romanzen und Balladen
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 27 de abr. de 2010
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Orchestral Music: South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra (Norrington) (Best of Stutthgart Sound)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Laura Claycomb, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Roger Norrington, Rundfunkchor Leipzig
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 1 de jan. de 2007
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FOUR CENTURIES OF CHRISTMAS MUSIC
Classical - Lançado por SWR Classic em 1 de ago. de 2004
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