Max Reger: Das Werk für Männerchor Vol. 1 Ensemble Vocapella Limburg & Tristan Meister

• Max Reger (1873 - 1916): Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-9 WoO VI/7:
• 1 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-9 WoO VI/7: No. 1 Die Erde braucht Regen 02:15
• 2 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-9 WoO VI/7: No. 2 Lebewohl 02:18
• 3 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-9 WoO VI/7: No. 3 Ach, Bäumchen, du stehst grüne 03:17
• 4 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-9 WoO VI/7: No. 4 Das Lieben bringt groß Freud 02:19
• 5 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-9 WoO VI/7: No. 5 Ich ging durch einen grasgrünen Wald 01:50
• 6 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-9 WoO VI/7: No. 6 Sehnsucht 01:16
• 7 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-9 WoO VI/7: No. 7 Verlorenes Lieb 03:34
• 8 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-9 WoO VI/7: No. 8 Trutze nicht 01:32
• 9 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-9 WoO VI/7: No. 9 Der Tod als Schnitter 04:39
• Männerchöre, Op. 38 No. 1-7:
• 10 Reger: Männerchöre, Op. 38 No. 1-7: No. 1 Ausfahrt 02:14
• 11 Reger: Männerchöre, Op. 38 No. 1-7: No. 2 Frühlingsruf 04:05
• 12 Reger: Männerchöre, Op. 38 No. 1-7: No. 3 Über die Berge 05:26
• 13 Reger: Männerchöre, Op. 38 No. 1-7: No. 4 Wie ist doch die Erde so schön 01:47
• 14 Reger: Männerchöre, Op. 38 No. 1-7: No. 5 Frohsinn 01:07
• 15 Reger: Männerchöre, Op. 38 No. 1-7: No. 6 Abendreihn 03:08
• 16 Reger: Männerchöre, Op. 38 No. 1-7: No. 7 Hell ins Fenster 01:48
• Es ist nichts mit alten Weibern WoW VI/9
• 17 Reger: Es ist nichts mit alten Weibern WoW VI/9 01:56
• Herzleid WoO VI/8:
• 18 Reger: Herzleid WoO VI/8 02:17
• Lacrimä Christi WoO VI/5
• 19 Reger: Lacrimä Christi WoO VI/5 04:32
• Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-5:
• 20 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-5: No. 1 Herzweh 02:58
• 21 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-5: No. 2 Liebchens Bote 02:26
• 22 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-5: No. 3 Das Sternlein 02:31
• 23 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-5: No. 4 Dianderl tief drunt im Tal 02:50
• 24 Reger: Ausgewählte Volkslieder No. 1-5: No. 5 Ich hab die Nacht geträumet 02:40
• Max Reger, Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903): Geistliche Lieder No. 1-6 (Nach Joseph von Eichendorff):
• 25 Reger, Wolf: Geistliche Lieder No. 1-6 (Nach Joseph von Eichendorff): No. 1 Aufblick 01:07
• 26 Reger, Wolf: Geistliche Lieder No. 1-6 (Nach Joseph von Eichendorff): No. 2 Einklang 02:28
• 27 Reger, Wolf: Geistliche Lieder No. 1-6 (Nach Joseph von Eichendorff): No. 3 Resignation 03:57
• 28 Reger, Wolf: Geistliche Lieder No. 1-6 (Nach Joseph von Eichendorff): No. 4 Letzte Bitte 02:03
• 29 Reger, Wolf: Geistliche Lieder No. 1-6 (Nach Joseph von Eichendorff): No. 5 Ergebung 03:21
• 30 Reger, Wolf: Geistliche Lieder No. 1-6 (Nach Joseph von Eichendorff): No. 6 Erhebung 01:49
• Total Runtime 01:19:30

Info for Max Reger: Das Werk für Männerchor Vol. 1

Paul Hindemith called him the “last giant in music”, not only referring to Max Reger’s vast oeuvre, but also to his significance for the history of music. Besides several works for organ, piano and orchestra, Reger wrote a multitude of pieces for men’s choir that were published as adaptions of folk songs in various collections of songs between 1898 and 1900. Pieces like Ich ging durch einen grasgrünen Wald, Die Erde braucht Regen or Das Lieben bringt groß Freud are evidence of Reger’s outstanding abilities as a composer. The Sieben Männerchöre op. 38 and Zehn Gesänge für Männerchor op 83 stand out as two particularly pivotal and challenging collections of pieces that demand the highest respect from every renowned men’s choir. Letting these songs still sound simple and light takes an equally excellent choir: The Ensemble Vocapella Limburg and its director Tristan Meister know best how to express the sometimes humorous, sometimes languishing and sometimes yearning character of the songs to best effect. With Lebewohl, they have set a monument to the great composer Max Reger, whose 100th anniversary of death we commemorate this year.

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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