800 Jahre Dresdner Kreuzchor Dresdner Kreuzchor

• 1 O crux splendidior 02:09
• 2 Sanctus in Three Parts 01:34
• 3 Allein auf Gottes Wort 02:58
• 4 No. 18, Siehe, nach Trost war mir sehr bange 04:03
• 5 Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock, SWV 289 03:38
• 6 Tristis est anima mea 03:49
• 7 No. 3, Abendlied 02:33
• 8 Cherubengesang für die Brüder des Regens 02:48
• 9 Kein schöner Land 02:26
• 10 Schöner Frühling 02:08
• 11 Ach Elslein, liebes Elselein 02:05
• 12 Victimae paschali laudes 02:55
• 13 Quam pulchra es et quam decora 02:36
• 14 Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott 02:46
• 15 Christus resurgens 03:15
• 16 Herr, auf dich traue ich, SWV 377 02:41
• 17 No. 3, Am Himmelfahrtstage 01:30
• 18 No. 1, Es ist das Heil uns kommen her 04:51
• 19 Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling, K. 596 02:12
• 20 Im schönsten Wiesengrunde 02:18
• Total Runtime 55:15

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The Dresdner Kreuzchor is well known. Many people who have no particular association with classical music have heard of it. The choir’s musical tradition dates back to the early 13th century, indicating that for the past 800 years, a boys’ choir has been singing figured music in the Church of the Holy Cross, the Kreuzkirche at the Altmarkt in Dresden. Nor is that all: adding to its rich store of sacred works, Dresden’s Kreuzchor has branched out into other repertoire and made a name for itself in the world outside. In this connection, it seems no exaggeration to speak of the choir’s global reach.

The city’s grammar school furnished a body of singers, originally a small group of boys, whose duties must have been very similar to those of other city and cathedral choirs in pre-Reformation times: services of worship and devotion several times a day were supplemented with Gregorian hymns, psalms and antiphons under the direction of the clergy.

The coming of the Reformation must have brought about radical change both for school and choir. Not only did education follow a new course, the musical repertoire too was drastically altered. The newly-created German songs and their polyphonic arrangements were to give Protestant church services a different musical character. …

Dresdner Kreuzchor

The Dresden Kreuzchor
is one of the world’s oldest and most famous boys’ choirs. Its most important task 800 years later is still the musical accompaniment of the vespers and services at Dresden’s Kreuzkirche. Not only on religious holidays but also throughout the whole church year, the Kreuzchor accompanies half of all liturgical services in the famous church at the old market.

The impressive architecture of the Kreuzkirche is an added attraction for the 3000 spectators of its choir concerts. As the city’s oldest and critically acclaimed cultural institution, the Dresden Kreuzchor has marked Dresden’s musical life in a very special way and spreads the city’s reputation as a cultural metropolis throughout the world as one of its most prominent ambassadors.

Several times a year, the Dresden Kreuzchor goes on national and international concert tours, beyond German and European borders to Israel, Canada, Japan, South America and the USA. More-over, it performs at international music festivals as well as countless radio and television recordings. A very wide repertoire ranging from early Baroque to world premieres of contemporary music has enabled it to make more than 800 recordings in the last 80 years for prestigious record labels such as Deutsche Grammophon, Teldec, Capriccio and Berlin Classics. There is a constant cooperation with famous orchestras such as the Dresden Philharmonic and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden. Renowned opera houses regularly employ choir soloists for solo parts such as the three boys in the Magic Flute.

The Kreuzchor singers, called “Kruzianer”, still graduate at the Kreuzschule; about half of them live in the adjacent boarding school. Next to their normal classes, the 130 singers aged nine to eighteen have weekly singing and instrumental lessons. Their daily rehearsals and the specific sound of the choir are the basis of the success and the fame of the Dresden Kreuzchor.

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