Max Reger: Das Werk für Männerchor Vol. 2 Ensemble Vocapella Limburg & Tristan Meister

• Max Reger (1873 – 1916): Gesänge, Op. 83 No. 1-10:
• 1Reger: Gesänge, Op. 83 No. 1-10: No. 1 An das Meer05:19
• 2Reger: Gesänge, Op. 83 No. 1-10: No. 2 Lieblich hat sich gesellet02:38
• 3Reger: Gesänge, Op. 83 No. 1-10: No. 3 Abendständchen02:30
• 4Reger: Gesänge, Op. 83 No. 1-10: No. 4 Husarendurchmarsch02:57
• 5Reger: Gesänge, Op. 83 No. 1-10: No. 5 Hochsommernacht03:10
• 6Reger: Gesänge, Op. 83 No. 1-10: No. 6 Ein gantz neu Schelmweys02:43
• 7Reger: Gesänge, Op. 83 No. 1-10: No. 7 Minnelied02:27
• 8Reger: Gesänge, Op. 83 No. 1-10: No. 8 Freude soll in deinen Werken sein!05:51
• 9Reger: Gesänge, Op. 83 No. 1-10: No. 9 Abschied03:59
• 10Reger: Gesänge, Op. 83 No. 1-10: No. 10 Requiem09:12
• An Zeppelin WoO VI/21:
• 11Reger: An Zeppelin WoO VI/2103:49
• Max Reger, Hans Leo Hassler (1564 – 1612): Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12:
• 12Reger, Hassler: Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12: No. 1 Ach Schatz, ich sing und lache04:14
• 13Reger, Hassler: Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12: No. 2 Feinslieb, du hast mich g'fangen01:36
• 14Reger, Hassler: Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12: No. 3 Gagliarda02:36
• 15Reger, Hassler: Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12: No. 4 Jungfrau, dein schön Gestalt03:57
• Max Reger, Baldassare Donati (1530 – 1603): Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12:
• 16Reger, Donati: Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12: No. 5 Villanella alla Napolitana02:46
• Max Reger, Anonymous: Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12:
• 17Reger, Anonymous: Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12: No. 6 Altfranzösisches Tanzlied01:54
• Max Reger, Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687): Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12:
• 18Reger, Lully: Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12: No. 7 Liebe droht auf allen Wegen02:14
• 19Reger, Lully: Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12: No. 8 Tanz-Chor01:38
• Max Reger, Thomas Morley (1557 – 1602): Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12:
• 20Reger, Morley: Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12: No. 9 Frühling umstrahlt ihr Antlitz zart02:50
• 21Reger, Morley: Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12: No. 10 Tanzlied02:13
• Max Reger, Michael Praetorius (1571 – 1621): Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12:
• 22Reger, Praetorius: Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12: No. 11 Sie ist mir lieb02:30
• Max Reger, Jacob Meyland (1542 — 1577): Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12:
• 23Reger, Meyland: Zwölf Madrigale bearb. Für Männerchor No. 1-12: No. 12 Herzlich tut mich erfreuen02:36
• Max Reger: Hoch lebe dies Haus WoO VIII/7:
• 24Reger: Hoch lebe dies Haus WoO VIII/700:18
• Total Runtime01:15:57

Info for Max Reger: Das Werk für Männerchor Vol. 2

The arrangements of Max Reger’s lieder for male chorus are highly sophisticated and yet sound quite light and animated. The Ensemble Vocapella Limburg presents the world's first complete recording of these sometimes humorous, sometimes wistful songs.

Paul Hindemith called Max Reger "the last musical giant," referring not only to his extensive oeuvre, but to his significance for the history of music as well. Alongside the numerous compositions for organ, piano and orchestra, Reger wrote a number of works for male choir that appeared as folk songs in several lieder collections between 1898 and 1900. To make these demanding pieces sound as light and graceful as Reger intended them to be, an excellent choir is required: The Ensemble Vocapella Limburg, led by Tristan Meister, is best suited to perfectly reproduce the spirit of these lieder. With this album, the world's first complete recording of Max Reger’s music for male chorus has been achieved.

Ensemble Vocapella Limburg
Tristan Meister, direction

The Ensemble Vocapella Limburg
was founded in 2007 by young men from the Limburg region who share their musical roots as former members of the Limburger Domsingknaben (Limburg Cathedral Boys’ Choir). Together with their conductor Tristan Meister they have committed themselves to the art of men’s choir literature. The choir has built an excellent reputation and is frequently invited to give concerts at home and abroad. Concert tours have taken the singers to Brasil, Argentina, Paraguay, Hungary, Belgium and all parts of Germany. They have garnered awards at several competitions, including the Budapest Choir Competition (2013), the Hessian Choir Competition in Schlitz (2013) and the German Choir Competition in Weimar (2014). In Weimar, besides winning the special award for contemporary music, the choir also won the production of this CD by Rondeau Production in recognition of their outstanding performance. The choir’s first CD titled In der Ferne (In the Distance) was released in 2012. The choir’s repertoire spans the men’s choir literature from all eras and includes Renaissance music as well as contemporary pieces, which are often written specifically for the choir by renowned composers.

Tristan Meister
was born in 1989 and received his first musical training as a member of the Limburger Domsingknaben. He studied choral conducting with Georg Grün, Harald Jers and Frieder Bernius as well as orchestral conducting with Klaus Arp at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim. His studies have included courses with Kai-Uwe Jirka and Morten Schuldt-Jensen. He serves as the director of several choirs including the Ensemble Vocapella Limburg, with which he won a first prize at the Deutscher Chorwettbewerb in 2014, the Wormser Kammerensemble, the Vox Quadrata chamber choir and the Jugendchor Hochtaunus. Alongside these commitments he lectures at the Heidelberg University, where he is an assistant to the university’s music director. With his choirs Tristan Meister is frequently invited to festivals at home and abroad. He is a frequent collaborator of ensembles such as the Baden-Badener Philharmoniker, the Chorakademie Lübeck and the Festivalchor of the Schleswig- Holstein Musik-Festival, and holds workshops and courses for choir singers and conductors.

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