Erschaffen - Geistvolle Chormusik Regensburger Domspatzen & Christian Matthias Heiss

• Anonymus, Peter Planyavsky (b. 1947): Der 269. Psalm:
• 1Anonymus, Planyavsky: Der 269. Psalm03:13
• Anonymus, Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672): Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, SWV 386:
• 2Anonymus, Schütz: Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, SWV 38604:46
• Anonymus, Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725): Exultate Deo:
• 3Anonymus, Scarlatti: Exultate Deo03:19
• Anonymus: Spiritus Domini - gregorianischer Introitus zum Pfingstfest:
• 4Anonymus, Anonymous: Spiritus Domini - gregorianischer Introitus zum Pfingstfest01:36
• Anonymus, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 - 1594): Dum complerentur:
• 5Anonymus, Palestrina: Dum complerentur03:21
• Anonymus, Giovanni Croce (1557 - 1609): Cantate Domino:
• 6Anonymus, Croce: Cantate Domino01:56
• Anonymus, Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikovsky (1840 - 1893): Neun liturgische Gesänge TH78:
• 7Anonymus, Tschaikovsky: Neun liturgische Gesänge TH78: III. Cherubinischer Gesang Nr. 305:46
• Anonymus, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847): aus Elias Op. 70:
• 8Anonymus, Bartholdy: aus Elias Op. 70: Hebe deine Augen auf02:13
• Anonymus, Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976): Jubilate Deo für vierstimmigen Chor und Orgel:
• 9Anonymus, Britten: Jubilate Deo für vierstimmigen Chor und Orgel02:51
• Anonymus, Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896): Locus Iste, WAB 23:
• 10Anonymus, Bruckner: Locus Iste, WAB 2303:26
• Anonymus, Anton Bruckner: Os Justi, WAB 30:
• 11Anonymus, Bruckner: Os Justi, WAB 3004:55
• Anonymus, Johann Pachelbel (1653 - 1706): Der Herr ist König, PWV 1102:
• 12Anonymus, Pachelbel: Der Herr ist König, PWV 110204:41
• Anonymus, Javier Busto (b. 1949): Ave maris stella, vierstimmig mit Solo:
• 13Anonymus, Busto: Ave maris stella, vierstimmig mit Solo04:32
• Anonymus, Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839 - 1901): Fünf Motetten Op. 163:
• 14Anonymus, Rheinberger: Fünf Motetten Op. 163: V. Benedicta es tu02:47
• C.D. af Wirsén (1842 - 1912), Waldemar Åhlén (1894 - 1982): Sommarpsalm:
• 15Wirsén, Åhlén: Sommarpsalm04:08
• Anonymus, Christian Matthias Heiss (b. 1967): Ich will dir singen, nach Psalm 104:
• 16Anonymus, Heiss: Ich will dir singen, nach Psalm 10405:16
• Total Runtime58:46

Info for Erschaffen - Geistvolle Chormusik

The Regensburger Domspatzen raise their hymn of praise to Creation under the direction of their Cathedral Kapellmeister Christian Heiß. With spiritual choral music from all epochs, they sing of the magnificence and fascination of the Creator's spirit. A soulful sound rush of vocal music!

The recordings were already planned for the summer of 2021. But the pandemic prevented that, just like the traditional Christmas concerts of the Regensburger Domspatzen in the Auditorium Maximum of the university. But Cathedral Conductor Christian Heiß and his team remained flexible, not only organising the programme of the cancelled concerts as live streaming with great effort, but also using the freed-up time resources to tackle the recordings in the in-house Wolfgangsaal from 10 to 13 December.

Of course, there was also a special hygiene and testing concept for this. For the first time, the producer is Andreas Meixner, former Domspatz and co-partner of the Regensburg classical music label Spektral Records. "For me, it's a bit of a return to my own roots," says Meixner about the new collaboration. "Christian Heiß and I still know each other from our time together as students and singers with the Domspatzen. Now we are bringing our talents together for the benefit of the Domspatzen. I am very happy about this." For Domkapellmeister Christian Heiß, this is the first production with his Domspatzen. He says: "We are glad that in Andreas Meixner we have a proven expert in vocal and early music, who is also well connected in the scene."

Ines Kammann, an experienced sound engineer from Münster, was in charge of recording the programme entitled "Creating - Spiritual Choral Music". Heiß says of the programme: "From the beginning and throughout the centuries, people have been praising the one who created heaven and earth. Psalms invite us to praise the Creator. The preservation of creation and our health as well as respect for the diversity of nature are thematically more topical today than ever before. Health and environmental protection are indispensable for the future of our earth. Where music resounds, heaven and earth touch, barriers and borders often fall."

The programme focuses on the idea of creation. There are wonderful texts, biblical texts, also spiritual texts, which take up this inexhaustible theme. The repertoire goes the way through the centuries of church music history. "In a way, it is always a feature of our concerts anyway that we show the whole range of musical traditions," says Heiß. The new disc features works by Palestrina, Schütz, Bruckner and Tchaikovsky, among others; choral works from the core repertoire of the world-famous boys' choir, but also something new from international contemporary music. One can rightly be curious about the compilation.

Regensburger Domspatzen
Christian Heiss, conductor

Regensburger Domspatzen
In 975 Bishop Wolfgang founded his own cathedral school in Regensburg. It is the hour of birth of the Regensburger Domspatzen. More than 1000 years later, the boys' choir is one of the oldest and most famous choirs in the world. At that time the liturgical singing in the bishop's church was already assigned to the pupils. This is still the main task of the Regensburger Domspatzen today: the musical arrangement of the services in the Regensburg Cathedral. They can be heard there every Sunday during school hours and on the high feast days of the church.

It is this clear and warm choral sound that has made the Domspatzen famous and unmistakable for decades. The choral sound is characterized by its versatility and dynamics. With their singing, the Domspatzen touch the hearts of the listeners in a special way. With the clear voices of a boys' choir, they give the choral music even more radiance and impressive depth. In addition to the cathedral conductor's choir, there are two other boys' choirs.

The extensive musical repertoire of the Regensburger Domspatzen ranges from the oldest hymns of the church, Gregorian chant, to vocal polyphony of the 16th century with works by Palestrina, Lasso and Hassler, the Baroque and Romantic periods to folk songs and works by contemporary composers. The Domspatzen regularly work together with well-known orchestras and soloists in larger oratorio projects.

The facility of the Domspatzen in Regensburg also includes a primary school, a high school with all-day care and a boarding school. Since 2022, the Domspatzen have been accepting girls in grammar school and boarding school for the first time in 1047 years. In the future they will form their own girls' choir at the cathedral.

Christian Heiss
Christian Heiss (*1967) has been Domkapellmeister in Regensburg since 2019 and thus head of the world-famous Regensburger Domspatzen. Even a cathedral sparrow was hot. After graduating from the Domspatzengymnasium, he studied church music with a major in organ at the Musikhochschule in Munich, with Franz Lehrndorfer among others. He completed his studies with the church music A diploma and the master class diploma in organ. In 1999 he was appointed cathedral organist in Eichstätt. In 2002 he then took over the position of Eichstätt Cathedral Kapellmeister, succeeding Professor Wolfram Menschick. In this function he conducted the choirs of the Eichstätt Cathedral Music (cathedral choir, Schola Gregoriana and youth choir). In addition, as diocesan music director and head of the office for church music, he was responsible for diocesan church music in the diocese of Eichstätt.

Christian Heiss also works as a choir composer and has created numerous pieces that have been published by renowned music publishers.

On behalf of the German Bishops' Conference, he set the primacy saying of Pope Benedict XVI to music. as an official gift from the German bishops on the occasion of the papal visit to Germany in the summer of 2011.

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