Bonn Beethovenhalle | New Year’s Concert 2012

In 1968 the conductor Heribert Beissel enriched the "Chur Cölnische Orchester"(nowadays called "Klassische Philharmonie Bonn"), which he founded in 1959when his idea of adding a chamber choir came to fruition.

Heribert Beissel's aim is to present an expanded selection of music for choir andorchestra. He focuses particularly on oratorios and his repertoire includes also acappella music from many different eras.

The Chur Cölnische Chor consists of dedicated women men and young peoplewho have had enormous choral experience and voice training. They therefore allperform to a high musical standard.

Every year the Chur Cölnische Chor performs three concerts in Bonn togetherwith the "Klassische Philharmonie Bonn" and there are 2 or 3 more concertswith an a cappella program. Further more the choir performs concerts in variousGerman towns. So in Halle/Saale (Saxony-Anhalt), where the Handel Festivaltakes place since 1922. This festival is an international music festivalconcentrating on the music of Georg Friedrich Handel in the composer'sbirthplace Halle/Saale and it grew into a center of Handel studies andperformance in Europe.

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The ”Chur Cölnischer Chor Bonn” under it's conductor Heribert Beissel

has become a longstanding part of the Bonn concert programme

The New Year concert of the CCC in the “Beethovenhalle” in which Beethoven's9th Symphony is usually performed, has a long tradition in the city, which theaudience does not want to miss. There were some years in which instead ofBeethoven's 9th Symphonie, Orff's “Carmina Burana” was performed.

Every spring the choir, together with Heribert Beissel's "Klassische PhilharmonieBonn" and vocal soloists, create a more extensive musical performance such as

• G. B. Pergolesi | Stabat Mater

• J.S. Bach | Mass in B minor, St. John Passion, St. Mathew Passion

• G.F. Händel | Jephta, Belsazar, Saul

• G.Ph. Telemann | Brockes-Passion

• W.A. Mozart | Requiem, Vesperae solennes de Confessore, Mass in C

minor and various other masses

• F. Schubert | Mass in G major

• F. Mendelssohn | Elias, Paulus

• G. Rossini | Petite Messe Solennelle

• I. Strawinski | Psalmensinfonie

Every summer the CCC entertains the Bonn audience with a lively a cappellaconcert and moreover - since it turned the concerts into beneficial ones – thechoir also supportes social programs in the community.

In the summer concerts, the CCC offers a wide range of music from all periodsranging from Monteverdi up until John Lennon.

Whereas the summer concert is dedicated to worldly music, the autumn concertis directed towards versatile European spiritual music. This includes Bach cantatas, works of A. Bruckner, F. Mendelssohn, A. Dvorak,G. Verdi, E. Elgar, G. Fauré, R. Mauersberger, R.V. Williams, E. Whitacre.

Every year in December, the Bonn citizens look forward to the performance ofHandel's Messiah which in the passed years was sung in the original Englishversion and since then has become tradition and is enthusiastically received bythe audience.

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Repertoire of the Chur Cölnische Chor Bonn

Choir with orchestra (up to 80 singers)

Bach, Joh. Seb. St. John Passion, St. Mathew Passion, Lukas Passion, Mass in B minor, Christmas oratoriovarious cantatas

Bach, Joh. Chr. Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme

Beethoven Missa solemnis, Symphonie no 9 "An die Freude"

Brahms Requiem

Bruckner Mass in F minor, Te Deum

Dvorák Requiem

Gluck Orpheus and Eurydice

Handel Messiah, Belsazar, Jephta, Acis und Galathea, Saul, Dettinger Te Deum, Dixit Dominus

Haydn The Creation, The Seasons, Mariazeller Mass

Mahler 2nd Symphony (The ressurection symphony)

Mendelssohn Paulus, Elias, Ave Maria op 23, no 2, various compositions for female voices

Mozart Mass in C minor, Requiem, Vesperae solennes, variousmasses

Orff Carmina burana

Pergolesi Stabat Mater

Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle

Schubert Mass in G major

Schütz Musikalische Exequien

Strawinski Psalmensymphonie

Telemann Brockes-Passion

Verdi Messa da Requiem

Vivaldi Gloria D major

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Zaragoza (Spain) | 2014

Important Concert Tours

• 1976 winner of the BBC competition in London "Let t people sing".

• 1978 concerts in England,

• 1984 concerts in the Netherlands,

• 1985 concerts in the USA,

• 1992 concerts in Malaysia and Australa; winner of the first 3 prizes at the

international choir competition in Sydney.

• 1992 - 1999 the choir toured 8 times to Halle/Saale in Saxony-Anhalt,

where it performed various Oratorios.

• 1995 concert tour to Brazil.

• 1996 the choir performed Mozart's “Requiem” in Versailles (France) at the

Chapelle Royal.

• 2000 performance of Handel’s "Messiah" in Mark's Basilica in Venice and

a Christmas concert in Salerno (Italy),

the choir performed with the Georgian State Orchestra Tblisi (Georgia).

• 2004 gave three a cappella concerts in Sana'a (Yemen).

• 1987 – 2011 the choir toured 9 times to Spain performing

e.g. J.S. Bach's St. John Passion and various masses and cantatas.

• 2014 concert tour to Spain where the choir performed the Requiem by

Brahms.

Internet: www.cccbonn.de

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