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Choral Music from the Portugese Renaissance

Studium Chorale

Choral Music from the Portugese Renaissance

Format: CD
Label: Globe
UPC: 8711525510807
Catnr: GLO 5108
Release date: 19 August 2002
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Label
Globe
UPC
8711525510807
Catalogue number
GLO 5108
Release date
19 August 2002
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About the album

The chamber choir Studium Chorale was founded in 1972, when a number of students at the Maastricht Conservatory found themsevles united in their enthusiasm for high quality choral singing from different stylistic periods. Initially, the choir sang mainly Renaissance and Baroque music. They followed specialisted courses and worked with a number of guest conductors among whom Jan Boeke, Frans Moonen, Philippe Herreweghe and Paul van Nevel.

Between 1981 and 1987 Studium Chorale took an intensive interest in contemporary music, stimulated by several new compositions dedicated to the choir. Since 1987, the choir has been building up its repertoire to the broad spectrum of five centuries of choral culture it now covers. The men of Studium Chorale form a separate Schola for Gregorian chant, and they made an intensive study of the MSS of Sankt Glaaen, Laon and Einsiedeln. Eric Hermans studied in Frankfurt with the famous choir director Kurt Thomas. He specialised in early music performance practice through courses at the Foundation for Performance Practice at the Department of Music at Utrecht University, and went to professor A. Kurris, Maastricht for tuition in Gregorian chant. Besides being a conductor and singing teacher, Eric Hermans had a long-lasting connection with the Maastricht Drama Academy and the Antwerp Conservatory where he taught voice production and text expression. His highly personal ideas about text experience and the special relationship he advocates between speaking and singing, language and music, are the inspiration of his musical interpretations.
Schitterende Portugese koorwerken die zelden worden opgenomen
De twee belangrijkste werken op dit album zijn de Missa pro defunctis van Filipe de Magalhaes en de Klaagliederen voor Witte Donderdag van João Lourenço Rebelo. Opnames van deze en de overige werken zijn nauwelijks te vinden. De uitvoeringen zijn ongetwijfeld voortreffelijke voorbeelden van de grootse koortraditie in de Lage Landen. De werken zijn opgenomen in een van de vele prachtige oude kerken van Maastricht. De opnamen hebben precies de juiste sfeer voor dit schitterende repertoire.

Het kamerkoor Studium Chorale werd in 1972 opgericht door een groep studenten aan het Conservatorium van Maastricht met een interesse in koorzang van hoge kwaliteit uit verschillende stijlperioden. Het koor zong eerst voornamelijk muziek uit de Renaissance en Barok, maar voerden later ook programma's met muziek uit de Romantiek uit, en muziek uit de Portugese Gouden Eeuw, zoals op dit album. Het huidige programma werd ook met succes uitgevoerd tijdens het Gulbenkian Festival in 1992 in Lissabon. Dit album werd op verzoek van de Gulbenkian Foundation uitgegeven! Studium Chorale treedt daarnaast op in binnen- en buitenland, onder andere op festivals zoals Musica Sacra in Maastricht, het Rheinisches Musikfest, en het Festival de Musica Antiga in Lissabon en Obidos.

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Studium Chorale

Studium Chorale is active as professional chamber choir since 2005. The productions are led by artistic leader Hans Leenders or specialized guest conductors. The choir is founded in 1972 and developed itself in the last years as one of the most important chamber choir in the Netherlands. The line up of Studium Chorale variates between eight and fourty singers, depending on which pieces are sung. The singers are coming from the Netherlands, Flanders and Germany. The very versatile contains five ages of choir culture, from pieces from the Renaissance till the latest works made. The choir did several world premieres from compositions of Henry Delnooz, Jean Lambrechts, Ton de Leeuw, Jo van den Booren, Lowell Dijkstra, Jeanne Demessieux, Daan Manneke, Roderik...
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Studium Chorale is active as professional chamber choir since 2005. The productions are led by artistic leader Hans Leenders or specialized guest conductors. The choir is founded in 1972 and developed itself in the last years as one of the most important chamber choir in the Netherlands.
The line up of Studium Chorale variates between eight and fourty singers, depending on which pieces are sung. The singers are coming from the Netherlands, Flanders and Germany. The very versatile contains five ages of choir culture, from pieces from the Renaissance till the latest works made. The choir did several world premieres from compositions of Henry Delnooz, Jean Lambrechts, Ton de Leeuw, Jo van den Booren, Lowell Dijkstra, Jeanne Demessieux, Daan Manneke, Roderik de Man, Marijn Simons, Hans Leenders and Margreeth de Jong.
Studium Chorale regularly works with orchestras and ensembles such as Ensemble 88, Florilegium Musicum and the Limburg Symphony Orchestra, and numerous soloists. The ensemble was recently led by Ed Spanjaard, Steffen Schreyer, Erik Van Nevel and Andrew Parrott.
Studium Chorale is a regular guest at home and abroad and maintaned several radio and television recordings. The choir's cultural establishment plan 2009-2012 of the Province of Limburg and the Municipality of Maastricht and is supported by the Fund for the Performing Arts.

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