St. Martin, Idstein
Encyclopedia
St. Martin in Idstein
, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis
, is the church of the local Roman Catholic
parish. The official name is Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Martin. The parish is part of the Diocese of Limburg
. The present building of architect Johannes Krahn
was consecrated in 1965.
, the patron saint
of Idstein until the Reformation
. Professor Johannes Krahn
, who built in Frankfurt am Main, designed a space recalling elements of an early Romanesque
Basilica
. In a most simple shape, a single long nave is concluded by a semicircle choir around the altar. On the right side the wall opens to a side chapel, reminiscent of a transept
. The high walls are built in stonemasonry
, visible both inside and outside. Light flows in from a band of windows under the plain wooden ceiling. The combination of materials has been compared to Le Corbusier
. The floor is of Jura marble, the altar
, ambo
, baptismal font
and tabernacle
are made of Lahn marble. The wall behind the altar held a neo-gothic crucifixion scene, Mary
, John
, and Mary Magdalene
under the cross, from the Magdalenenkirche. Low stained glass
windows forming the Stations of the Cross
were designed by Paul Corazolla (Berlin). The first organ was built by E. F. Walcker & Cie.
and consecrated in 1974. It was placed on the right side in the opening for the chapel, visible to the congregation. The free-standing bell tower, housing four bells, is 42 m high.
. The new cross above the altar was created by a group of young people in preparation for confirmation
. During the restoration the organ had to be taken apart. The parish decided not to restore it, but to have a new organ built.
period, whilst the Swell division (Schwellwerk) has the timbre of the Romantic
, which makes it possible to play a wide range of the organ repertoire from different eras. The organ is used mostly in services, but has been played in concerts of artists such as Kalevi Kiviniemi
. Giora Feidman
and Matthias Eisenberg performed a duo programme in 2008. Christian Schmitt played in 2007 with the chamber choir of the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt, conducted by Wolfgang Schäfer
, who returned in 2010 to conducted the Frankfurter Kammerchor. The first organ concert on the Mebold Organ was played by Dan Zerfaß, organist of the Worms Cathedral
. In 2005 Graham Waterhouse
was the soloist in the premiere of his Cello Concerto in the chamber version.
of St. Martin since 1992, conducting five musical groups, a children's choir Kinderchor St. Martin, the Chor St. Martin, the Martinis (a chamber choir of mostly young people), the Orchester St. Martin, and the Capella Lignea on historic instruments. The church choir was named Chor St. Martin in 1973. The Martinis were founded in 1988 by Thomas Gabriel as a youth choir. All groups perform in services, including Mass
es, such as Haydn's Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo
, Mozart's Missa brevis in D minor, K. 65 and Spatzenmesse
, Monteverdi's Missa in F from Selva morale e spirituale
, and masses of František Xaver Brixi, Johann Ernst Eberlin
, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
, Hans Leo Hassler
, Alberich Mazak
, Flor Peeters
, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
. They have also included contemporary music of Arvo Pärt
and Heinz Werner Zimmermann
. The Martinis have performed Bach cantata
s, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106 (Actus tragicus), in a Geistliche Abendmusik (a Vespers
service), and Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39, in a cantata service.
The choirs traveled to England (2006) and Leipzig (2008), to attend services and Evensong
in Christ Church, Oxford
, Salisbury Cathedral
, St Paul's Cathedral, London
, and to hear the Thomanerchor
in Motette and services. In 2009 they sang with other choirs of the diocese in the Limburg Cathedral
from the Missa primi toni octi vocum of Stefano Bernardi
for double chorus, conducted by Joachim Dreher and Franz Fink.
), Antichi Strumenti (Mulhouse
) and Main-Barockorchester Frankfurt accompanied works of Bach, Buxtehude, Handel and Haydn in historically informed performance
s. Several concerts were a collaboration with other choirs, the choir of the Protestant
church of Geisenheim
and the Idsteiner Kantorei, the choir of the Unionskirche
, conducted by Kantor Carsten Koch since 2003.
In November 2010 Verdi's Messa da Requiem was performed twice in a collaboration of three Idstein choirs (Idsteiner Kantorei, Chor St. Martin, Martinis) with soloists Christiane Kohl
, Christa Bonhoff
, Dantes Diwiak
and Andreas Pruys
, the Nassauische Kammerphilharmonie; the Kantors Carsten Koch and Franz Fink shared conducting in both concerts.
The concert of 2011 was Handel's Messiah
with Katia Plaschka
, Andreas Scholl
, Ulrich Cordes
, Markus Flaig
and the Main-Barockorchester Frankfurt.
Idstein
Idstein is a town of about 25,000 inhabitants in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Because of its well preserved historical Altstadt it is part of the Deutsche Fachwerkstraße , connecting towns with fine timber-frame buildings and...
, Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis
Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis
Rheingau-Taunus is a Kreis in the west of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Limburg-Weilburg, Hochtaunuskreis, Main-Taunus, district-free Wiesbaden, Mainz-Bingen, Rhein-Lahn.-Geography:...
, is the church of the local Roman Catholic
Catholicism
Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....
parish. The official name is Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Martin. The parish is part of the Diocese of Limburg
Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg
The Diocese of Limburg is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany.It was erected in 1821 from the Diocese of Trier and is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cologne. The Holy Cross Church in Bornheim, Frankfurt am Main, is a part of the diocese...
. The present building of architect Johannes Krahn
Johannes Krahn
Johannes Krahn was a German architect and academic.- Professional career :Johannes Krahn studied architecture from 1923 to 1927 at the Technische Lehranstalten Offenbach. He continued his studies 1927 to 1928 at the Kölner Werkschulen as Meisterschüler of Dominikus Böhm, who interested him in...
was consecrated in 1965.
Construction
Because the Catholic population of Idstein grew considerably after World War II, the former Magdalenenkirche of 1888 had to give way to a new church. The building started in 1963, the church was consecrated on 5 June 1965 by Bishop Wilhelm Kempf. It was dedicated to St. MartinMartin of Tours
Martin of Tours was a Bishop of Tours whose shrine became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Around his name much legendary material accrued, and he has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints...
, the patron saint
Patron saint
A patron saint is a saint who is regarded as the intercessor and advocate in heaven of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person...
of Idstein until the Reformation
Reformation
- Movements :* Protestant Reformation, an attempt by Martin Luther to reform the Roman Catholic Church that resulted in a schism, and grew into a wider movement...
. Professor Johannes Krahn
Johannes Krahn
Johannes Krahn was a German architect and academic.- Professional career :Johannes Krahn studied architecture from 1923 to 1927 at the Technische Lehranstalten Offenbach. He continued his studies 1927 to 1928 at the Kölner Werkschulen as Meisterschüler of Dominikus Böhm, who interested him in...
, who built in Frankfurt am Main, designed a space recalling elements of an early Romanesque
Romanesque architecture
Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe characterised by semi-circular arches. There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque architecture, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 10th century. It developed in the 12th century into the Gothic style,...
Basilica
Basilica
The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a Roman public building, usually located in the forum of a Roman town. Public basilicas began to appear in Hellenistic cities in the 2nd century BC.The term was also applied to buildings used for religious purposes...
. In a most simple shape, a single long nave is concluded by a semicircle choir around the altar. On the right side the wall opens to a side chapel, reminiscent of a transept
Transept
For the periodical go to The Transept.A transept is a transverse section, of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In Christian churches, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform building in Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architecture...
. The high walls are built in stonemasonry
Stonemasonry
The craft of stonemasonry has existed since the dawn of civilization - creating buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone from the earth. These materials have been used to construct many of the long-lasting, ancient monuments, artifacts, cathedrals, and cities in a wide variety of cultures...
, visible both inside and outside. Light flows in from a band of windows under the plain wooden ceiling. The combination of materials has been compared to Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...
. The floor is of Jura marble, the altar
Altar
An altar is any structure upon which offerings such as sacrifices are made for religious purposes. Altars are usually found at shrines, and they can be located in temples, churches and other places of worship...
, ambo
Ambon (liturgy)
The Ambon or Ambo is a projection coming out from the soleas in an Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic church. The ambon stands directly in front of the Holy Doors...
, baptismal font
Baptismal font
A baptismal font is an article of church furniture or a fixture used for the baptism of children and adults.-Aspersion and affusion fonts:...
and tabernacle
Church tabernacle
A tabernacle is the fixed, locked box in which, in some Christian churches, the Eucharist is "reserved" . A less obvious container, set into the wall, is called an aumbry....
are made of Lahn marble. The wall behind the altar held a neo-gothic crucifixion scene, Mary
Mary (mother of Jesus)
Mary , commonly referred to as "Saint Mary", "Mother Mary", the "Virgin Mary", the "Blessed Virgin Mary", or "Mary, Mother of God", was a Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee...
, John
John the Evangelist
Saint John the Evangelist is the conventional name for the author of the Gospel of John...
, and Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene was one of Jesus' most celebrated disciples, and the most important woman disciple in the movement of Jesus. Jesus cleansed her of "seven demons", conventionally interpreted as referring to complex illnesses...
under the cross, from the Magdalenenkirche. Low stained glass
Stained glass
The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings...
windows forming the Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross refers to the depiction of the final hours of Jesus, and the devotion commemorating the Passion. The tradition as chapel devotion began with St...
were designed by Paul Corazolla (Berlin). The first organ was built by E. F. Walcker & Cie.
Walcker Orgelbau
Walcker Orgelbau of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is a builder of pipe organs. It was founded in Cannstatt, a suburb of Stuttgart in 1780 by Johann Eberhard Walcker...
and consecrated in 1974. It was placed on the right side in the opening for the chapel, visible to the congregation. The free-standing bell tower, housing four bells, is 42 m high.
Restoration in 2003
The walls of the church were completely restored in 2003. At the same time the altar was moved closer to the congregation, making more room for the choir. The baptismal font was moved from the chapel to the front, opposite the ambo. The tabernacle was moved from that position to the chapel, also the crucifixion scene, creating a chapel for adoration. The works were directed by Franz Josef Hamm from LimburgLimburg an der Lahn
Limburg an der Lahn is the district seat of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse, Germany.-Location:Limburg lies in western Hesse between the Taunus and the Westerwald on the river Lahn....
. The new cross above the altar was created by a group of young people in preparation for confirmation
Confirmation (Catholic Church)
Confirmation is one of the seven sacraments through which Catholics pass in the process of their religious upbringing. According to Catholic doctrine, in this sacrament they receive the Holy Spirit and become adult members of the Catholic Church....
. During the restoration the organ had to be taken apart. The parish decided not to restore it, but to have a new organ built.
Mebold Organ
The organ was built by Orgelbau Mebold and consecrated on 22 January 2006. The instrument has 1,888 pipes and 33 stops on two manuals and a pedalboard. The layout of its Great division (Hauptwerk) reflects the classic organ construction of the BaroqueBaroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
period, whilst the Swell division (Schwellwerk) has the timbre of the Romantic
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...
, which makes it possible to play a wide range of the organ repertoire from different eras. The organ is used mostly in services, but has been played in concerts of artists such as Kalevi Kiviniemi
Kalevi Kiviniemi
Kalevi Kiviniemi is a Finnish concert organist. He is known internationally for Finnish and French organ music and has given several recitals at Notre Dame de Paris and recorded on historic organs...
. Giora Feidman
Giora Feidman
Giora Feidman is an Argentinian-born Israeli clarinetist who specializes in klezmer music.-Biography:Giora Feidman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his Bessarabian Jewish parents immigrated to escape persecution. Feidman comes from a family of klezmer musicians...
and Matthias Eisenberg performed a duo programme in 2008. Christian Schmitt played in 2007 with the chamber choir of the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt, conducted by Wolfgang Schäfer
Wolfgang Schäfer
Wolfgang Schäfer is a German choral conductor and academic. He founded the Freiburger Vokalensemble, the BosArt Trio, and the Frankfurter Kammerchor.-Professional career:...
, who returned in 2010 to conducted the Frankfurter Kammerchor. The first organ concert on the Mebold Organ was played by Dan Zerfaß, organist of the Worms Cathedral
Worms Cathedral
Cathedral of St Peter is a church in Worms, southern Germany. It was the seat of the Catholic Prince-Bishopric of Worms until its extinction in 1800.It is a basilica with four round towers, two large domes, and a choir at each end...
. In 2005 Graham Waterhouse
Graham Waterhouse
Graham Waterhouse is an English composer and a cellist. He is known for chamber music and for unusual scoring, such as Piccolo Quintet, Bright Angel for three bassoons and contrabassoon, Chieftain's Salute for Great Highland Bagpipe and string orchestra, and works for speaking voice and cello,...
was the soloist in the premiere of his Cello Concerto in the chamber version.
Church music
Franz Fink has been the KantorCantor (church)
A cantor is the chief singer employed in a church with responsibilities for the ecclesiastical choir; also called the precentor....
of St. Martin since 1992, conducting five musical groups, a children's choir Kinderchor St. Martin, the Chor St. Martin, the Martinis (a chamber choir of mostly young people), the Orchester St. Martin, and the Capella Lignea on historic instruments. The church choir was named Chor St. Martin in 1973. The Martinis were founded in 1988 by Thomas Gabriel as a youth choir. All groups perform in services, including Mass
Mass (music)
The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy to music...
es, such as Haydn's Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo
Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo
The Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo in B-flat major by Joseph Haydn, Hob. XXII:7, Novello 8, was written in 1775 for the Barmherzige Brüder in Kismarton, Hungarian Kingdom, whose patron saint was St. John of God...
, Mozart's Missa brevis in D minor, K. 65 and Spatzenmesse
Sparrow Mass
The Missa Brevis No. 10 in C major, K. 220, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1775 or 1776 for Salzburg. The mass is scored for soloists, choir, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, strings and organ, the latter supplying figured bass for most of the duration...
, Monteverdi's Missa in F from Selva morale e spirituale
Selva Morale e Spirituale
Selva morale e spirituale is the short title of a collection of sacred music by the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi, published in Venice in 1640 and 1641. The title translates to "Moral and Spiritual Forest"...
, and masses of František Xaver Brixi, Johann Ernst Eberlin
Johann Ernst Eberlin
Johann Ernst Eberlin was a German composer and organist whose works bridge the baroque and classical eras. He was a prolific composer, chiefly of church organ and choral music...
, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer was a German Baroque composer...
, Hans Leo Hassler
Hans Leo Hassler
Hans Leo Hassler was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of the less-famous Jakob Hassler...
, Alberich Mazak
Alberich Mazak
Alberich Mazak, also Alberik Mazák was an Czech-Austrian 17th century composer. He was born in Ratibor in Czech family. After studying Music and Philosophy, he entered Heiligenkreuz Abbey in 1631 and in 1633 he became a priest.-Works, editions and recordings:He created more than 300 compositions...
, Flor Peeters
Flor Peeters
Flor Peeters was a Flemish composer, organist and teacher.-Biography:Born and raised in the village of Tielen , he was the youngest child in a family of eleven...
, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel was a prolific German composer.-Biography:Stölzel grew up in Schwarzenberg, Saxony in the Erzgebirge. From 1707 he was a student of theology in Leipzig, and of Melchior Hofmann, the musical director of the Neukirche. He studied, worked and composed in Breslau and Halle...
. They have also included contemporary music of Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...
and Heinz Werner Zimmermann
Heinz Werner Zimmermann
Heinz Werner Zimmermann is a German composer.Zimmermann had his first composition instruction from 1946 to 1948 with Julius Weismann and studied from 1950 to 1954 in Heidelberg with Wolfgang Fortner as well as at the Institut for Protestant Church Music there...
. The Martinis have performed Bach cantata
Bach cantata
Bach cantata became a term for a cantata of the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach who was a prolific writer of the genre. Although many of his works are lost, around 200 cantatas survived....
s, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106 (Actus tragicus), in a Geistliche Abendmusik (a Vespers
Vespers
Vespers is the evening prayer service in the Western Catholic, Eastern Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran liturgies of the canonical hours...
service), and Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39, in a cantata service.
The choirs traveled to England (2006) and Leipzig (2008), to attend services and Evensong
Evening Prayer (Anglican)
Evening Prayer is a liturgy in use in the Anglican Communion and celebrated in the late afternoon or evening...
in Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England...
, Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral, formally known as the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is an Anglican cathedral in Salisbury, England, considered one of the leading examples of Early English architecture....
, St Paul's Cathedral, London
St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral, London, is a Church of England cathedral and seat of the Bishop of London. Its dedication to Paul the Apostle dates back to the original church on this site, founded in AD 604. St Paul's sits at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London, and is the mother...
, and to hear the Thomanerchor
Thomanerchor
The Thomanerchor is a boys' choir in Leipzig, Germany. The choir was founded in 1212. At present, the choir consists of 92 boys from 9 to 18 years of age...
in Motette and services. In 2009 they sang with other choirs of the diocese in the Limburg Cathedral
Limburg Cathedral
The Catholic Cathedral of Limburg, also known as Georgsdom or Limburger Dom in German after its dedication to Saint George, is located above the old town of Limburg in Hesse, Germany. Its high location on a rock above the Lahn provides its visibility from far away...
from the Missa primi toni octi vocum of Stefano Bernardi
Stefano Bernardi
Stefano Bernardi , also known as "il Moretto", was an Italian priest, composer and music theorist...
for double chorus, conducted by Joachim Dreher and Franz Fink.
Choral concerts
An annual choral concert with soloists and orchestra has been performed by the combined choirs. The specialized orchestras La Beata Olanda (FreiburgFreiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...
), Antichi Strumenti (Mulhouse
Mulhouse
Mulhouse |mill]] hamlet) is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. With a population of 110,514 and 278,206 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2006, it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin département, and the second largest in the Alsace region after...
) and Main-Barockorchester Frankfurt accompanied works of Bach, Buxtehude, Handel and Haydn in historically informed performance
Historically informed performance
Historically informed performance is an approach in the performance of music and theater. Within this approach, the performance adheres to state-of-the-art knowledge of the aesthetic criteria of the period in which the music or theatre work was conceived...
s. Several concerts were a collaboration with other choirs, the choir of the Protestant
Protestantism
Protestantism is one of the three major groupings within Christianity. It is a movement that began in Germany in the early 16th century as a reaction against medieval Roman Catholic doctrines and practices, especially in regards to salvation, justification, and ecclesiology.The doctrines of the...
church of Geisenheim
Geisenheim
Geisenheim is a town in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hessen, Germany, and is known as Weinstadt , Schulstadt , Domstadt and Lindenstadt ....
and the Idsteiner Kantorei, the choir of the Unionskirche
Unionskirche, Idstein
The Unionskirche is the Protestant parish church of Idstein, a major town in the German Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Idstein was a residence of the Counts of Nassau...
, conducted by Kantor Carsten Koch since 2003.
- 1998 Bach: St Matthew Passion, EvangelistEvangelist (Bach)The Evangelist in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is the tenor part in his oratorios and Passions who narrates the exact words of the Bible, translated by Martin Luther, in recitative, namely in the works St John Passion, St Matthew Passion, and the Christmas Oratorio, also in the St Mark...
: Max Ciolek, Vox ChristiVox ChristiVox Christi, Latin for Voice of Christ, is a term for the bass voice representing Jesus in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and others. This part appears prominently in Bach's Passions...
: Max van EgmondMax van EgmondMax van Egmond is a Dutch bass and baritone singer. He has focused on oratorio and Lied and is known for singing works of Johann Sebastian Bach.- Professional career :...
, Elisabeth SchollElisabeth Scholl- Professional career :Elisabeth Scholl was the first girl to sing with the boys choir Kiedricher Chorbuben. From 1982 to 1987 she sang the role of the First Boy in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden...
, Andreas SchollAndreas SchollAndreas Scholl is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range. He is noted as a specialist in Baroque music.-Childhood:...
, La Beata Olanda - 1999 Puccini: Messa di GloriaMessa di GloriaMessa di Gloria is a nine movement mass, composed by Gioacchino Rossini for the Arciconfraternita di San Luigi. First performed on 24 March 1820 in the Chiesa di San Ferdinando in Naples, it is in the traditional form of a "Gloria" mass, that is a setting of the first two prayers of the Catholic...
, Daniel SansDaniel Sans- Professional career :Daniel Sans was a boy soprano in the choir of the Mainz Cathedral. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt with Martin Gründler...
, Christof Fischesser, with the choir of Geisenheim, conducted by Thassilo Schlenther and Franz Fink, also performed in the Basilika of Schloss JohannisbergSchloss JohannisbergSchloss Johannisberg is a winery in the Rheingau wine-growing region in Germany, that has been making wine for over 900 years. The winery is most noted for its claim to have "discovered" late harvest wine.- History :... - 2000 Music from Bach cantataBach cantataBach cantata became a term for a cantata of the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach who was a prolific writer of the genre. Although many of his works are lost, around 200 cantatas survived....
s as part of the Idsteiner Bachtage: Sinfonia of the Easter OratorioEaster OratorioThe Easter Oratorio , BWV 249, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, Kommt, eilet und laufet , first performed in Leipzig in 1725.- History :...
, cantata Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66, Sinfonia of BWV 42, Sinfonia and opening chorus of Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29, cantata Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! BWV 172Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten! , BWV 172, is a church cantata of Johann Sebastian Bach, written for Pentecost Sunday in Weimar, first performed there in the Schlosskirche on 20 May 1714.- History :In Weimar, Bach was the court organist of Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar...
, with Annegret Kleindopf, Christine Wehler, Martin Krumbiegel, Johannes Scholl, Antichi Strumenti - 2001 Rutter: RequiemRequiem (Rutter)The Requiem by John Rutter is a musical setting of an adaptation of the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, completed in 1985. The setting utilises a choir with an orchestral accompaniment, along with a soprano soloist. The Requiem was first performed on 13 October 1985 at Lovers' Lane United Methodist...
, BrittenBenjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
: The Company of Heaven for speaker, soloists, choir and orchestra (1937), in collaboration as 1999, with Kalliopi Patrona, Daniel SansDaniel Sans- Professional career :Daniel Sans was a boy soprano in the choir of the Mainz Cathedral. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt with Martin Gründler...
, Richard Martin (speaker) - 2002 Haydn: Die Schöpfung, with Valentina Farcas, Daniel SansDaniel Sans- Professional career :Daniel Sans was a boy soprano in the choir of the Mainz Cathedral. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt with Martin Gründler...
, Johannes Schendel, Idsteiner Kantorei, Antichi Strumenti, conducted by Edwin Müller and Franz Fink, performances for the Hessentag - 2003 Handel: GloriaGloria (Handel)George Frideric Handel's Gloria is a sacred solo cantata, a setting of the Gloria, the liturgical part of the Mass, for soprano and strings. Handel may have composed it in Germany before departing for Italy in 1706...
, Utrecht Te Deum and JubilateUtrecht Te Deum and JubilateUtrecht Te Deum and Jubilate is a sacred choral composition in two parts, written by George Frideric Handel to celebrate the Treaty of Utrecht, which established the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, ending the War of the Spanish Succession. The combination of a Te Deum and Jubilate, the Psalm 100, follows...
, Katia PlaschkaKatia PlaschkaKatia Plaschka is a German coloratura soprano who performs in opera, especially contemporary opera, and concert performances of oratorios.-Professional career:...
, Antichi Strumenti, in the Unionskirche - 2004 Bach: Christmas OratorioChristmas OratorioThe Christmas Oratorio BWV 248, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season. It was written for the Christmas season of 1734 incorporating music from earlier compositions, including three secular cantatas written during 1733 and 1734 and a...
, Katia PlaschkaKatia PlaschkaKatia Plaschka is a German coloratura soprano who performs in opera, especially contemporary opera, and concert performances of oratorios.-Professional career:...
, Franz Vitzthum, Antichi Strumenti - 2005 Break forth into Joy, Choral Music from England of Thomas TallisThomas TallisThomas Tallis was an English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician in 16th century Tudor England. He occupies a primary place in anthologies of English church music, and is considered among the best of England's early composers. He is honoured for his original voice in English...
, William ByrdWilliam ByrdWilliam Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard and consort music.-Provenance:Knowledge of Byrd's biography expanded in the late 20th century, thanks largely...
, Henry PurcellHenry PurcellHenry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music...
, James KentJames Kent (composer)James Kent was an English organist and composer.Kent was a chorister of Winchester Cathedral and the King's Chapel. He was appointed organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he worked until about 1737. Then he was organist in Winchester of both the cathedral and the college...
, Maurice GreeneMaurice Greene (composer)Maurice Greene was an English composer and organist.- Biography :Born in London, the son of a clergyman, Greene became a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral under Jeremiah Clarke and Charles King...
, Charles Villiers StanfordCharles Villiers StanfordSir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer who was particularly notable for his choral music. He was professor at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge.- Life :...
, Charles WoodCharles Wood (composer)Charles Wood was an Irish composer and teacher.Born in Armagh, Ireland, he was the fifth child and third son of Charles Wood Sr. and Jemima Wood. His father was a tenor in the choir of the nearby St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh , and later worked as the Diocesan Registrar of the church...
, Edward ElgarEdward ElgarSir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
and John RutterJohn RutterJohn Milford Rutter CBE is a British composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer, mainly of choral music.-Biography:Born in London, Rutter was educated at Highgate School, where a fellow pupil was John Tavener. He read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the...
, performed by all three choirs - 2006 Rutter: Magnificat
- 2007 Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostriMembra Jesu NostriMembra Jesu Nostri , BuxWV 75, is a cycle of seven cantatas composed by Dieterich Buxtehude in 1680, and dedicated to Gustaf Düben. The full Latin title Membra Jesu nostri patientis sanctissima translates to "The most holy limbs of our suffering Jesus". This work is known as the first Lutheran...
, Katia PlaschkaKatia PlaschkaKatia Plaschka is a German coloratura soprano who performs in opera, especially contemporary opera, and concert performances of oratorios.-Professional career:...
, Franz Vitzthum, Antichi Strumenti, Capella Lignea - 2008 Mozart: Great Mass in C minor, Katia PlaschkaKatia PlaschkaKatia Plaschka is a German coloratura soprano who performs in opera, especially contemporary opera, and concert performances of oratorios.-Professional career:...
, Elisabeth SchollElisabeth Scholl- Professional career :Elisabeth Scholl was the first girl to sing with the boys choir Kiedricher Chorbuben. From 1982 to 1987 she sang the role of the First Boy in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden... - 2009 Bach: St Matthew Passion, Evangelist: Ulrich CordesUlrich CordesUlrich Cordes is a German tenor.-Professional career:Ulrich Cordes first studied sacred music at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Winfried Bönig and Margaretha Hürholz, among others. He continued studying voice. In 2005 he was able to study at the CNSMDP in Paris with Pierre Mervant as a...
, Vox Christi: Andreas PruysAndreas Pruys- Professional career :Andreas Pruys studied singing and church music at the Folkwanghochschule in Essen. He worked as a church musician for several years, also as director of the music school in Emmerich. He has been a member of the choir NDR Chor since 2001....
, Katia PlaschkaKatia PlaschkaKatia Plaschka is a German coloratura soprano who performs in opera, especially contemporary opera, and concert performances of oratorios.-Professional career:...
, Klaus MertensKlaus MertensKlaus Mertens is a German bass and bass-baritone singer who is known especially for his interpretation of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach.-Professional career:Klaus Mertens took singing lessons while attending school...
, La Beata Olanda
In November 2010 Verdi's Messa da Requiem was performed twice in a collaboration of three Idstein choirs (Idsteiner Kantorei, Chor St. Martin, Martinis) with soloists Christiane Kohl
Christiane Kohl
- Professional career :Christiane Kohl grew up in Idstein. After her Abitur at the Pestalozzi-Gymnasium she studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Lilian Sukis and Elisabeth Wilke. She received her diploma with distinction in 2003....
, Christa Bonhoff
Christa Bonhoff
- Professional career :Christa Bonhoff was born in Westphalia. Sie studied singing at the Hochschule für Musik Hamburg with Annie Schoonus. Already as a student she joined the choir NDR Chor and worked as a guest for the Hamburgische Staatsoper...
, Dantes Diwiak
Dantes Diwiak
Dantes Diwiak is a tenor, who grew up and has worked mostly in Germany.- Professional career :Dantes Diwiak studied singing with Klaus Kirchner and opera at the Musikhochschule Hannover with Theo Altmeyer. He took master classes with Hermann Reutter, Birgit Nilsson, Helmuth Rilling and Scot Weir...
and Andreas Pruys
Andreas Pruys
- Professional career :Andreas Pruys studied singing and church music at the Folkwanghochschule in Essen. He worked as a church musician for several years, also as director of the music school in Emmerich. He has been a member of the choir NDR Chor since 2001....
, the Nassauische Kammerphilharmonie; the Kantors Carsten Koch and Franz Fink shared conducting in both concerts.
The concert of 2011 was Handel's Messiah
Messiah (Handel)
Messiah is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742, and received its London premiere nearly a year later...
with Katia Plaschka
Katia Plaschka
Katia Plaschka is a German coloratura soprano who performs in opera, especially contemporary opera, and concert performances of oratorios.-Professional career:...
, Andreas Scholl
Andreas Scholl
Andreas Scholl is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range. He is noted as a specialist in Baroque music.-Childhood:...
, Ulrich Cordes
Ulrich Cordes
Ulrich Cordes is a German tenor.-Professional career:Ulrich Cordes first studied sacred music at the Hochschule für Musik Köln with Winfried Bönig and Margaretha Hürholz, among others. He continued studying voice. In 2005 he was able to study at the CNSMDP in Paris with Pierre Mervant as a...
, Markus Flaig
Markus Flaig
-Professional career:Markus Flaig was born in Horb am Neckar. He studied sacred music and school music, then voice with Beata Heuer-Christen in Freiburg and with Berthold Possemeyer at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt. Since 2006 he has worked with Carol Meyer-Bruetting...
and the Main-Barockorchester Frankfurt.
External links
- St. Martin, Idstein website