In spite of its melodic beauty, its contrapuntal lucidity, its harmonic diversity, and its rhythmic energy; in spite of its intellectual virtuosity, its emotional intensity, its expressive clarity, and its spiritual frenzy; in spite of its ritualistic gravity, its ceremonial solemnity, its exquisite agony, and its ultimate ecstasy, Mahler's Eighth ...
Called the finest children's choir in Middle Franconia, the Windsbacher Knabenchor under longtime music director Karl-Friedrich Beringer proves itself fit to stand with the better national and even international children's choirs on this 1999 Rondeau disc. Coupling three motets by Bach -- Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied; Komm, Jesu, komm; and Jesu, ...
The Windsbacher Knabenchor is a German boys' choir that has recorded several volumes' worth of music by Heinrich Schütz with conductor, Karl-Friedrich Beringer; on this disc and others the group is teamed with the delightfully named brass ensemble Bach, Blech & Blues. The choir's virtues are warmth and a direct engagement with the text rather than ...
As fine a recording of Stravinsky's choral music as has ever been made, this disc by the Windsbacher Knabenchor and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin directed by Karl-Friedrich Beringer couples the composer's two brief a cappella prayers -- the Pater noster and Ave Maria -- with his secular cantata and his sacred masterpiece, the Symphonie ...
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