Rejoice! Salzburg Bach Choir, Alois Glaßner & Wolfgang Kogert

• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924):
• 1 For Lo, I Raise Up, Op. 145 08:40
• Arvo Pärt (1935- ):
• 2 The Beatitudes 08:12
• James MacMillan (1959- ):
• 3 Beatus vir 06:32
• Herbert Howells (1892-1983):
• 4 Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis "Collegium Regale" 08:24
• Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992):
• 5 O Sacrum Convivium! 03:45
• Charles Ives (1874-1954):
• 6 Psalm 135 "Praise Ye the Lord" 05:15
• Benjamin Britten (1913-1976):
• 7 Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30 17:03
• Total Runtime 57:51

Info for Rejoice!

The Bach Choir Salzburg gained its international reputation under their long-time conductor Alois Glaßner through continuous work with the ensemble sound as well as the great repertoire width, ranging from renaissance works to oratorios, a-capella repertoire to opera performances. With the album «Rejoice», featuring Wolfgang Kogert, organ, the Bach Choir presents selected works for choir and organ, last but not least the eponymous Rejoice with the lamb Op. 30 by Benjamin Britten. Further works include For Io, I raise up Op. 145 by Charles Stanford, The Beatitudes by Arvo Pärt, Beatus vir by James MacMillan, Herbert Howells' Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, O sacrum convivium by Olivier Messiaen and the Psalm 135 by Charles Ives. The great stylistic diversity of one of the leading Austrian vocal ensembles comes into its own with this new release.

The Bach Choir Salzburg was founded in 1983 and soon came to prominence as one of Austria's leading vocal ensembles. During the last ten years it has additionally acquired an international reputation. Since 2003 its artistic director has been Alois Glaßner. The choir appears regularly at the Salzburg Festival, where it has been acclaimed at numerous concerts as well as in opera productions.

The Bach Choir Salzburg has appeared with many outstanding conductors and with orchestras of the eminence of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mozarteum Orchestra, the Salzburg Camerata, Les Musiciens du Louvre, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. The choir has worked closely over many years with Ivor Bolton, Leopold Hager, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Adam Fischer and Ingo Metzmacher.

Wolfgang Kogert, organ
Bachchor Salzburg
Alois Glaßner, conductor

Wolfgang Kogert
Tradition and Modernism – the Austrian Wolfgang Kogert subscribes to this motto in a very special way.

Kogert is an organist at the tradition-steeped Vienna Hofburg Chapel, where he performs together with the Vienna Court Music Orchestra, consisting of members of the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Boys’ Choir and the male choir of the Vienna State Opera.

He devotes himself to contemporary music with particular passion. As the soloist, he premiered the organ concertos by Bernd Richard Deutsch and Thomas Amann with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Vienna Musikverein. Composers such as Klaus Lang, Manuela Kerer, Christoph Herndler, Gerald Resch, Katharina Klement, Wolfgang Suppan and Gerhard E. Winkler have written works especially for him.

His concert work has taken him to Tokyo, Moscow, Brussels and Oslo and to festivals like Wien Modern, the Bach Festival in Leipzig, the Scelsi Festival in Basel, the Hildebrandt Festival in Naumburg and Orgelmixturen in Cologne.

Kogert was awarded a much-heeded first prize at the International Wedstrijd Musica Antiqua in Bruges, and in 2013 he was Artist in Residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Kogert’s recording of the organ works by Johann Caspar Kerll has received many awards. In 2015, his CD B-A-Cer-Ha with organ music by Friedrich Cerha and Johann Sebastian Bach was released, as will be the CD Rejoice with the Salzburg Bach Choir conducted by Alois Glassner with works of the 20th century in 2018.

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