Erato Choir
Erato è un progetto che nasce a Torino nell’ottobre 2017, grazie all’iniziativa del direttore Dario Ribechi e tenore Massimo Lombardi. Il coro, che può variare dai 16 ai 24 elementi, raggruppa alcune delle migliori voci del panorama italiano con esperienze diverse nel mondo dell’opera, ensemble e del canto solistico. Tutti i cantanti di Erato hanno i più alti profili professionali ed accademici, e vantano continue collaborazioni con importanti istituzioni musicali, come la Berliner Philharmonie, Freiburg Barockorckester, Accademia de La Scala, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Swedish Radio Choir, Coro Ghislieri, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Nederlands Kamerkoor, La Compagnia del Madrigale, Coro della Radio Svizzera Italiana, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, e con musicisti del calibro di Jordi Savall, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Ottavio Dantone, Diego Fasolis, Juraj Valchua, Peter Dijkstra, Tõnu Kaljuste, e Kristjan Järvi. La missione di Erato è di promuovere il repertorio contemporaneo italiano ed internazionale, con un occhio di riguardo per i compositori emergenti, quanto la riscoperta di musiche italiane inedite del VI e VII secolo attraverso un meticoloso lavoro di studio e trascrizione delle fonti originali.
Erato is a project based in Torino, Italy, born on October 2017, thanks to the initiative of choir conductor Dario Ribechi and singer Massimo Lombardi. It gathers some of the best professional singers of our generation, with diverse experiences in opera, ensemble and solo performance, to create a unique and flexible chamber choir, varying from 16 to a 24 voices formation. All singers have the highest academic and professional profiles, regularly collaborating with institutions such as Berliner Philharmonie, Freiburg Barockorckester, Accademia de La Scala, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Swedish Radio Choir, Ghislieri Choir, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Nederlands Kamerkoor, La Compagnia del Madrigale, Coro della Radio Svizzera Italiana, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, and working with conductors like Jordi Savall, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Ottavio Dantone, Diego Fasolis, Juraj Valchua, Peter Dijkstra, Tõnu Kaljuste, and Kristjan Järvi, just to name a few. Erato’s double mission is to put a special focus both on contemporary music, by promoting composers and their new music, as well as rediscovering unpublished repertoire from the 16th and 17th century, by a meticulous musicological research and transcription of the original sources.
16 Singers Program a cappella (Romantic/Contemporary)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847)
Drei Psalmen op.78
Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)
Der Abend op.34 n.1
Claude Debussy arr. Clytus Gottwald (1925)
Soupir a 16 voci
Maurice Ravel arr. Clytus Gottwald
Soupir a 16 voci
Gustav Mahler arr. Clytus Gottwald
Die zwei blauen Augen a 16 voci
Gustav Mahler arr. Clytus Gottwald
Urlicht a 16 voci
Arvo Pärt (1935)
Nunc Dimittis
Tõnu Kõrvits (1969)
The Night is Darkening Round me
Veljo Tormis (1930 – 17)
Jaani laul, dalla suite per coro Jaanilaulud
66’ circa tot.
24/32 Singers
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 – 1943)
Vespers (All Night Vigil) op. 37
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Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 – 1943)
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom op.31
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Georgy Sviridov (1915 – 1998)
The Mysterious Nativity
The Mystical Supper
Alfred Schnittcke (1934 – 1998)
Choir Concerto
«1685»
(16 voci, organo, violone)
Domenico Scarlatti – Stabat Mater a 10 voci
Georg Friedrich Händel – As Pants The Hart
Johann Sebastian Bach – Jesu Meine Freude
Totale 55’
«Vespro a Doppio Coro»
(16 voci, organo, violone)
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani – Dixit Dominus (1650)
Claudio Monteverdi – Laudate Pueri (1610)
Francesco Cavalli – Lætatus Sum (1675)
Natale Monferrato – Nisi Dominus (1675)
Claudio Monteverdi – Lauda Ierusalem (1610)
Claudio Monteverdi – Ave Maris Stella
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani – Magnificat Secondo (1650)
+ antifone gregoriane e intermezzi organistici
Totale 65’/70’
Ave Maria a 4 di J.J. Fux
Motets, Responsories, Masses and Madrigals from
Josquin des Prez
Costanzo Festa
Thomas Tallis
Adrian Willaert
Cipriano de Rore
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Orlande de Lassus
William Byrd
Tomas Luis de Victoria
Andrea Gabrieli
Costanzo Porta
Giovanni Croce
Luca Marenzio
Giovanni Gabrieli
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa
Henry Purcell
Claudio Monteverdi
Masses
Various Motets
Antonio Lotti
Crucifixus
Johann Sebastian Bach
Motets
Franz Schubert
Various secular and sacred works, motets, hymns and songs.
Felix Mendelssohn
Sacred Choruses for male chorus, Op. 115
Trauer-Gesang (“Sahst du ihn hernieder schweben”), song for chorus, Op. 116
Die Deutsche Liturgie, for double chorus
Psalms 2, 24, 31, 91, 93, 98, 100
Anthems for double chorus (Sechs Sprüche), Op. 79
Motets for soloists & chorus (English Church Pieces), Op. 69
Johannes Brahms
Op. 22, Marienlieder – Songs For Mary –, for mixed chorus
Op. 29, Two Motets, for mixed chorus
Op. 37, Three Sacred Choruses
Op. 42, Drei Gesänge – Three Songs – for mixed chorus
Op. 52 Liebeslieder Walzer, for vocal quartet and piano four-hands
Op. 74, Two Motets, for mixed chorus
Op. 104, Fünf Gesänge (Five Songs), for mixed chorus
Op. 110, Three Motets, for mixed chorus
Op. 113, Thirteen Canons for female choir
Franz Liszt
Missa Choralis
Ave Maria
Pater Noster
Christus is geboren
P.I. Tchaikovsky
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 41
All-Night Vigil, Op. 52
Claude Debussy
Trois Chansons d’Orléans
Maurice Ravel
Trois Chansons
Richard Strauss
Deutsche Motette
Der Abend op.34 n.
Jean Sibelius
Rakastava
Sergei Rachmaninov
Vespers (All Night Vigil) op. 37
LIturgy of St. John Chrysostom op. 31
Gustav Holst
Motets, and selected Folk Songs
Arvo Pärt
All a cappella works
Alfred Schnittcke
Choir Concerto
Georgy Sviridov
Motets and Prayers
Clytus Gottwald
Various arrangements and transcription
Einojuhani Rautavaara
True and False Unicorn
All Night Vigil
Credo
Canticum Mariae Virginis
Cancion de Nuestro Tiempo
Veljo Tormis
Jaani Laulud (St. John suite)
Raua needmine (Curse upon Iron)
* 16 singers ** 24 singers *** 32 singers
Giovanni Gabrieli **
Symphoniae Sacrae
Sacrae Symphoniae
Claudio Monteverdi
Various motets (with continuo) *
Vespro della Beata Vergine ***
Selva Morale e Spirituale ***
Henry Purcell **
Dido et Aeneas
Antonio Vivaldi *
Hymns, Antiphonae (RV 612-622)
Pslams (RV 593-611)
Motets (RV 623-634)
Johann Sebastian Bach
B Minor Mass ***
Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 ***
Johannes-Passion BWV 245 **
Various Cantatas **/ ***
Motets *
Georg Friedrich Händel
Messiah ***
Dixit Dominus ***
Domenico Scarlatti
Stabat Mater a 10 voci
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart **/***
Various Sacred Works, Masses, Motets, Vespreae, Litaniae
Messa in Do minore Missa solemnis K 427
Messa di Requiem K 626
Franz Josef Haydn
Hob.XXII (1-14) Masses */**/***
Die Schöpfung ***
Various Motets and other Sacred works */**
Franz Schubert
Masses and other sacred works **/***
Felix Mendelssohn
St. Paul ***
Elijah ***
Sacred works, Cantatas and Motets */**/***
Robert Schumann
Requiem ***
Anton Bruckner
Missas **/***
Te deum ***
Johannes Brahms
Ein Deutsches Requiem (with two pianos) ***
Schicksalslied ***
Gabriel Fauré ***
Requiem
Carl Orff ***
Carmina Burana (arr. piano and percussions)
Gustav Holst */**/***
Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda (choir, soloists and piano arr. by the composer)
Choral Hymns from Rig Veda 3rd Group (for female choir and Harp)
Eastern Pictures (for female choir and harp)
Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda 4th gorup (for male choir and stirng orch. with brass ad libitum)
Various Sacred and Secula pieces for SATB choir a cappella
Sergei Rachmaninov ***
Three Russian Songs op.41
Igor Stravinsky **
Mass for Choir and Wind quintet
Arvo Pärt
Adam’s Lament**
Salve Regina **
Stabat Mater **
Passio **
Miserere ***
Berliner Messe **
Programs for Utrecht 2019 on the Neapolitan School
1) A light program (just voices and continuo), made of two works of the greatest italian baroque musicians, father and son, Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti.
16 singers, continuo (organ and violone), conductor
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 – 1725)
Missa Quatour Vocum R. 511/2 (a cappella)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 – 1725)
Dixit Dominus for 5 voices and continuo
Domenico Scarlatti (1685 – 1757)
Stabat Mater for 10 voices and continuo
2) Program with orchestra (Accademia Amsterdam)
Francesco Durante ( 1684 – 1755)
Miserere for soli, coro and orchestra
Niccolò Jommelli (1714 – 1774)
Requiem for soli, coro and orchestra