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MDR Rundfunkchor, the Glossary

MDR Rundfunkchor is the radio choir of the German broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), based in Leipzig, Saxony.^[1]

104 relations: A cappella, Académie Charles Cros, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Alain Pâris, Alan Bush, Alfred Szendrei, All-Night Vigil (Rachmaninoff), Andrés Orozco-Estrada, ARD (broadcaster), Arnold Schoenberg, Artistic director, BBC Proms, Benjamin Britten, Bernard Haitink, Boris Blacher, Carlos Veerhoff, Claudio Abbado, Colin Davis, Czechoslovakia, Der Tod Jesu, Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar, Diapason d'Or, Dietrich Knothe, Dresden Music Festival, Dresden Philharmonic, Eberbach Abbey, Echo Klassik, Ernst Hermann Meyer, Felix Mendelssohn, Folk music, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Frankfurter Rundschau, Friedrich Schenker, Günter Kochan, Günter Neubert, Günther Ramin, Georges Prêtre, Gerhard Rosenfeld, Gert Frischmuth, Gramophone Classical Music Awards, Gurre-Lieder, Hanns Eisler, Hans Werner Henze, Heinrich Werlé, Herbert Kegel, Herbert von Karajan, Howard Arman, Immortal Bach, International Classical Music Awards, James Levine, ... Expand index (54 more) »
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

A cappella

Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.

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The Académie Charles Cros (Charles Cros Academy) is an organization located in Chézy-sur-Marne, France, that acts as an intermediary between government cultural policy makers and professionals in music and the recording industry.

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Aix-en-Provence Festival

The Festival d'Aix-en-Provence is an annual international music festival which takes place each summer in Aix-en-Provence, principally in July.

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Alain Pâris

Alain Pâris (born 22 November 1947) is a French conductor and musicologist.

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Alan Bush

Alan Dudley Bush (22 December 1900 – 31 October 1995) was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist.

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Alfred Szendrei

Alfred Szendrei, also Alfred Sendrey and Aladár Szendrei (29 February 1884 – 3 March 1976) was an American musicologist, organist, conductor, composer of Hungarian origin.

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All-Night Vigil (Rachmaninoff)

The All-Night Vigil (Pre-reform Russian: Всенощное бдѣніе, Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye; Modern Russian: Всенощное бдение) is an a cappella choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, his Op. 37, premiered on 10/23 March 1915 in Moscow.

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Andrés Orozco-Estrada

Andrés Orozco-Estrada (born 14 December 1977) is a Colombian violinist and conductor, with dual nationality in Colombia and Austria.

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ARD (broadcaster)

ARD is a joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer.

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Artistic director

An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction.

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BBC Proms

The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist.

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Bernard Haitink

Bernard Johan Herman Haitink (4 March 1929 – 21 October 2021) was a Dutch conductor and violinist.

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Boris Blacher

Boris Blacher (30 January 1975) was a German composer and librettist.

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Carlos Veerhoff

Carlos Enrique Veerhoff (3 June 1926 in Buenos Aires – 18 February 2011 in Murnau) was an Argentine-born German composer of classical music.

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Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado (26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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Colin Davis

Sir Colin Rex Davis (25 September 1927 – 14 April 2013) was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959.

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Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.

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Der Tod Jesu

Der Tod Jesu (The Death of Jesus) is an oratorio libretto by Karl Wilhelm Ramler.

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Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar

The (DNT), or German National Theater and Weimar State Orchestra, is the most significant arts organization in Weimar.

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Diapason d'Or

The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of Diapason magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the British Gramophone magazine.

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Dietrich Knothe

Dietrich Knothe (6 January 1929 – 7 September 2000) was a German conductor and choral conductor, winner of the 1985 Handel Prize presented by the city of Halle.

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Dresden Music Festival

The Dresden Music Festival (German: Dresdner Musikfestspiele) is an annual music festival which takes place in Dresden, Germany in May and June.

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Dresden Philharmonic

The Dresdner Philharmonie (Dresden Philharmonic) is a German symphony orchestra based in Dresden.

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Eberbach Abbey

Eberbach Abbey (German: Kloster Eberbach) is a former Cistercian monastery in Eltville in the Rheingau, Germany.

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Echo Klassik

The Echo Klassik, often stylized as ECHO Klassik, was Germany's major classical music award in 22 categories.

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Ernst Hermann Meyer

Ernst Hermann Ludimar Meyer (8 December 1905 – 8 October 1988) was a German composer and musicologist, noted for his expertise on seventeenth-century English chamber music.

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Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Frankfurt Radio Symphony

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony (hr-Sinfonieorchester) is the radio orchestra of Hessischer Rundfunk, the public broadcasting network of the German state of Hesse.

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Frankfurter Rundschau

The Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) is a German daily newspaper, based in Frankfurt am Main.

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Friedrich Schenker

Friedrich Schenker (23 December 19428 February 2013) was a German avant-garde composer and trombone player.

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Günter Kochan

Günter Kochan (2 October 1930 – 22 February 2009) was a German composer.

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Günter Neubert

Günter Neubert (11 March 1936 – 18 November 2021) was a German composer and tonmeister.

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Günther Ramin

Günther Werner Hans Ramin (15 October 1898 – 27 February 1956) was an influential German organist, conductor, composer and pedagogue in the first half of the 20th century.

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Georges Prêtre

Georges Prêtre (14 August 1924 – 4 January 2017) was a French orchestral and opera conductor.

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Gerhard Rosenfeld

Gerhard Rosenfeld (10 February 1931 – 5 March 2003) was a German composer.

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Gert Frischmuth

Gert Frischmuth (18 July 1932 – 4 May 2012) was a German choral conductor and music educator.

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Gramophone Classical Music Awards

The Gramophone Classical Music Awards, launched in 1977, are one of the most significant honours bestowed on recordings in the classical record industry.

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Gurre-Lieder

(Songs of Gurre) is a tripartite oratorio followed by a melodramatic epilogue for five vocal soloists, narrator, three choruses, and grand orchestra.

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Hanns Eisler

Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was a German-Austrian composer.

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Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer.

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Heinrich Werlé

Heinrich Werlé (2 May 1887 – 26 May 1955) was a German choir director, organist and music critic.

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Herbert Kegel

Herbert Kegel (29 July 1920 – 20 November 1990) was a German conductor.

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Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan (born Heribert Ritter von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor.

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Howard Arman

Howard Arman (born 1954 in London) is an English choral conductor and opera director.

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Immortal Bach

Immortal Bach, Op.

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International Classical Music Awards

The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) are music awards first awarded 6 April 2011.

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James Levine

James Lawrence Levine (June 23, 1943 – March 9, 2021) was an American conductor and pianist.

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Jörg-Peter Weigle

Jörg-Peter Weigle (born 1953, in Greifswald), is a German conductor and music professor.

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Jean-Luc Darbellay

Jean-Luc Darbellay (born 2 July 1946) is a Swiss composer, conductor, clarinetist and physician.

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Jochen Wehner

Jochen Wehner (7 March 1936 – 9 June 2020) was a German conductor, music producer, arranger and Lektor.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.

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Karl Böhm

Karl August Leopold Böhm (28 August 1894 – 14 August 1981) was an Austrian conductor.

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Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad

Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad (born 27 November 1962) is a German musicologist, publisher, music producer and editor.

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Krzysztof Penderecki

Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor.

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Kunstpreis der Stadt Leipzig

From 1959 to 1989, the city of Leipzig awarded the Kunstpreis der Stadt Leipzig, which was given for outstanding merits in the artistic field to persons who promoted the reputation of the city beyond the region: architects, visual artists, composers, musicians, singers, actors and writers as well as literary and art critics.

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Kurt Masur

Kurt Masur (18 July 1927 – 19 December 2015) was a German conductor.

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Kurt Schwaen

Kurt Schwaen (June 21, 1909 in Katowice – October 9, 2007 in Berlin) was a German composer.

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La fille du régiment

(The Daughter of the Regiment) is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard.

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Leipzig

Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.

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Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gewandhausorchester; also previously known in German as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig) is a German symphony orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany.

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Lorin Maazel

Lorin Varencove Maazel (March 6, 1930 – July 13, 2014) was an American conductor, violinist and composer.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Marek Kopelent

Marek Kopelent (28 April 193212 March 2023) was a Czech composer, music editor and academic teacher, who is considered to have been at the forefront of the "New Music" movement, and was one of the most-published Czech composers of the second half of the 20th century.

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Max Reger

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher.

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MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

The MDR-Sinfonieorchester (in English, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra) is a German radio orchestra based in Leipzig. MDR Rundfunkchor and MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra are Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk.

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Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

("Central German Broadcasting"), shortened to MDR (stylized as mdr), is the public broadcaster for the federal states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in Germany.

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Musik und Gesellschaft

Musik und Gesellschaft was a music magazine in the German Democratic Republic.

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Neue Musik

Neue Musik (English new music, French nouvelle musique) is the collective term for a wealth of different currents in composed Western art music from around 1910 to the present.

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Neville Marriner

Sir Neville Marriner, (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an English conductor and violinist.

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Patriotic Order of Merit

The Patriotic Order of Merit (German: Vaterländischer Verdienstorden, or VVO) was a national award granted annually in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

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Paul Dessau

Paul Dessau (19 December 189428 June 1979) was a German composer and conductor.

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Paul-Heinz Dittrich

Paul-Heinz Dittrich (4 December 1930 – 28 December 2020) was a German composer and academic teacher.

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Philipp Ahmann

Philipp Ahmann (born 1974) is a German conductor, especially known as a choral conductor.

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Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik

The Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik ("German Record Critics' Award") was established in Germany in 1963 by publisher Richard Kaselowsky with the aim of setting the "most rigorous standards for supreme achievement and quality" in the field of music recording.

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Qatar

Qatar (قطر) officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDR_Rundfunkchor

Also known as Chor des Mitteldeutschen Rundfunks, Leipzig Radio Choir, MDR Chor, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, MDR-Rundfunkchor, Rundfunkchor Leipzig.

, Jörg-Peter Weigle, Jean-Luc Darbellay, Jochen Wehner, Johann Sebastian Bach, Karl Böhm, Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Krzysztof Penderecki, Kunstpreis der Stadt Leipzig, Kurt Masur, Kurt Schwaen, La fille du régiment, Leipzig, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Marek Kopelent, Max Reger, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Musik und Gesellschaft, Neue Musik, Neville Marriner, Patriotic Order of Merit, Paul Dessau, Paul-Heinz Dittrich, Philipp Ahmann, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Qatar, Religious music, Rheingau Musik Festival, Riccardo Chailly, Riccardo Muti, Risto Joost, Roger Norrington, Rudolf Wagner-Régeny, Salzburg Festival, Seiji Ozawa, Siegfried Thiele, Simon Rattle, Sofia Gubaidulina, St. Florian Monastery, Staatskapelle Dresden, Stabat Mater (Dvořák), Steffen Lieberwirth, The Creation (Haydn), Thomas Buchholz, Thomaskantor, Trionfi (Orff), Udo Zimmermann, Vienna Festival, War Requiem, Wilfried Krätzschmar, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, Wolfgang Sawallisch.

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Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

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