Erschaffen – Creation

ERSCHAFFEN
CREATION

REGENSBURGER DOMSPATZEN
CHRISTIAN HEISS

The Regensburger Domspatzen lift up their voices in praise of creation under their music director Christian Heiß. With dazzling choral music from all eras they sing of the splendour and enduring allure of the creation spirit. An inspired and ecstatic outpouring of vocal music!

Release: January 2023

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PETER PLANYAVSKY (*1947)
01 DER 269. PSALM
HEINRICH SCHÜTZ (1585 – 1672)
02 DIE HIMMEL ERZÄHLEN, SWV 386
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI (1660 – 1725)
03 EXULTATE DEO
GREGORIANISCHER INTROITUS ZUM PFINGSTFEST
04 SPIRITUS DOMINI 01:36
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA (1525 – 1594)
05 DUM COMPLERENTUR
GIOVANNI CROCE (1557 – 1609)
06 CANTATE DOMINO
PJOTR ILJITSCH TSCHAIKOVSKY (1840 – 1893)
07 CHERUBINISCHER GESANG NR. 3
FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY (1809 – 1847)
08 HEBE DEINE AUGEN AUF
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913 – 1976)
09 JUBILATE DEO
ORGEL: THOMAS PÖSCHL
ANTON BRUCKNER (1824 – 1896)
10 LOCUS ISTE
11 OS JUSTI
JOHANN PACHELBEL (1653 – 1706)
12 DER HERR IST KÖNIG
JAVIER BUSTO (*1949)
13 AVE MARIS STELLA
SOLO-SOPRAN: SERAPHIM WÜHL, ECHO-SOPRAN THEO HAVLA
JOSEF GABRIEL RHEINBERGER (1839 – 1901)
14 BENEDICTA ES TU
WALDEMAR ÅHLÉN (1894 – 1982)
15 SOMMARPSALM
CHRISTIAN MATTHIAS HEISS (*1967)
16 ICH WILL DIR SINGEN (NACH PSALM 104)

Total time / Gesamtspielzeit: 58:55

Regensburger Domspatzen

In the year 975, Bishop Wolfgang found-ed his own cathedral school in Regensburg. This, then, was when the Regensburger Domspatzen came into being. Today, more than one thousand years later, the boy’s choir ranks as one of the oldest and most famous in the world. Right from the beginning, the school boys were assigned the task of singing the liturgical music in the bishop’s church. Even today, this function remains the principle task of the Regensburger Domspatzen. They still provide the music for the worship services at the Regensburg Cathedral, and can be heard every Sunday during the school year as well as on the main feast days in the church calendar.
They are noted for their clear and warm choral tone, unmistakable features that have made them famous over the decades. Their choral sound is also notable for its versatility and dynamic range, and their singing is able to move the hearts of the listeners in a very special way. The clear sound of a boy’s choir is able to bring an extra degree of radiant power and impressive depth to a wide range of choral music. Along with the Domspatzen, there are also two other choirs that are under the charge of the music director.
The extraordinarily wide musical repertoire of the Regensburger Domspatzen ranges from the oldest church music, the Gregorian chants, through to the vocal polyphony of the sixteenth century with Palestrina, Lassus, and Hassler, and on to Baroque and Romantic music as well as folk songs and contemporary composers. The Domspatzen regularly take part in major oratorio productions with wellknown orchestras and soloists.
The Domspatzen are also part of a larger establishment in Regensburg which also in- cludes a regular school, a high school (gymnasium) with classes all day, and a boarding school. In 2022, for the first time in 1047 years, the Domspatzen in the gymnasium and boarding school has begun to also include girls. In the future, there will also be an in- dependent girl’s choir as well.

www.domspatzen.de

Christian Heiss

Since 2019, Christian Heiß (born 1967) has been the chief music director at the Regensburg Cathedral, a position which also includes leading the world famous Regensburger Domspatzen, of which Heiß himself was once a member. After graduating from the Domspatzen Gymnasium, he went on to study church music and organ at the Munich Uni- versity of Music where his teachers included Franz Lehrndorfer. He concluded his studies with diplom degrees in church music and organ. In 1999 he was appointed to the position of church organist in Eichstätt. In 2002 he followed in the footsteps of Professor Wolfram Menschick and rose to the position of music director in Eichstätt. In this role, he was responsible for the Eichstätt Cathedral choir, the Schola Gregoriana, and the Jugendkantorei. In addition he was diocese music director for the Eichstätt region and was responsible for the overall state of church music in that diocese.
Christian Heiß is also active as a composer and has written many works that have been published by well-known publishers. On the occasion of the papal visit to Germany in 2011 the Conference of the German Bishops commisioned him to compose a Mass for Pope Benedict XVI based on the biblical verse of Benedict’s Prima Missa.

English text (44 pages)

P+C 2022 Spektral, LC 15543
Best.-Nr. SRL4-22181
EAN: 4260130381813