A Cappella Concert with the Dresden Kreuzchor
Dresdner Kreuzchor
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Motets „Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf“ BWV 226
„Fürchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir“ BWV 228
Johann Christian Bach:
„Ich lasse dich nicht“ BWV Anh. III 159
Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach:
„Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt“ BWV Anh. 160
Johann Ludwig Bach:
Motet „Das ist meine Freude“ JLB 28
Christian Theodor Weinlig:
„Laudate Dominum“
Theodor Christlieb Reinhold:
„Ich habe einen guten Kampf gekämpft“
Gottfried August Homilius:
„Seid fröhlich in Hoffnung“
Gustav Merkel:
„Barmherzig und gnädig ist der Herr“
Performers
Organizer
Bachverein Rostock e. V.
Dresdner Kreuzchor
Biography
The Dresdner Kreuzchor is one of the world’s oldest and most renowned boys’ choirs with its history going back to the early 13th century. Still today, the choir sings during services and vespers at the Kreuzkirche Dresden, as they did seven centuries ago. The Kreuzchor also performs concerts on its own and collaborates with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and other large ensembles and soloists. Since about a hundred years ago, the choir has increasingly been singing outside Dresden and has since been touring countries all over the world.
Roderich Kreile
Biography
Roderich Kreile studied church music and choral conducting in Munich, where he taught from 1989 to 1996. 1994 he was appointed conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Choir. Since 1997, Roderich Kreile has been the 28th Kreuzkantor after the Reformation. He directs all performances of church music, concerts and tours of the Dresdner Kreuzchor and rehearses a broad repertoire of both religious and non-religious music with his choir. Roderich Kreile is also vice-chairman of the Neue Bachgesellschaft, as well as an advisory board member of the International Heinrich Schütz Society.
Karl-Bernhadin Kropf
Biography
Karl-Bernhadin Kropf was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, and studied protestant and catholic church music, organ and organ improvisation at Vienna and Saarbrucken. Since 1992, he has been working as a church musician in North Germany, since 2007 at St. Mary’s Church, Rostock. He has also taught at the Universities of Music in Mainz, Lübeck, Rostock and Graz, Austria. He has played concerts in many European countries, won several organ competitions and works as a composer for church music. Karl-Bernhadin regularly stages big oratorical works with the choirs of St. Mary’s Church.