Rendezvous for Brass Genesis Brass & Christian Sprenger

• Christian Sprenger (b. 1976): Rise and shine!:
• 1 Sprenger: Rise and shine! 02:54
• Anne Weckeßer (b. 1973): „Rondo“vous for Brass:
• 2 Weckeßer: „Rondo“vous for Brass 02:10
• Hymne:
• 3 Weckeßer: Hymne 02:23
• Arioso:
• 4 Weckeßer: Arioso 01:51
• Christian Sprenger: All mein Gedanken:
• 5 Sprenger: All mein Gedanken 03:37
• Kleines Intermezzo:
• 6 Sprenger: Kleines Intermezzo 02:13
• Kein schöner Land:
• 7 Sprenger: Kein schöner Land 03:12
• The Irish:
• 8 Sprenger: The Irish 03:16
• Looking back the years:
• 9 Sprenger: Looking back the years 03:26
• Promised Land:
• 10 Sprenger: Promised Land 04:08
• Anne Weckeßer: Rückblick:
• 11 Weckeßer: Rückblick 02:28
• Christian Sprenger: What a Friend I:
• 12 Sprenger: What a Friend I 03:07
• Anne Weckeßer: What a Friend II:
• 13 Weckeßer: What a Friend II 03:47
• What a Friend (Accompanying Parts):
• 14 Weckeßer: What a Friend (Accompanying Parts) 01:24
• Christian Sprenger: Un poquito cantas:
• 15 Sprenger: Un poquito cantas 01:41
• Abend wird es wieder:
• 16 Sprenger: Abend wird es wieder 04:03
• Farewell to Princes‘ Landing Stage (The Leaving of Liverpool):
• 17 Sprenger: Farewell to Princes‘ Landing Stage (The Leaving of Liverpool) 02:55
• Werner Gneist (1898 - 1980): Viel Glück und viel Segen:
• 18 Gneist: Viel Glück und viel Segen 02:12
• Total Runtime 50:47

Info for Rendezvous for Brass

A musical rendezvous full of energy, tonal color, and surprising moments: with “Rendezvous for Brass”, Christian Sprenger and genesis brass present an album that combines virtuosic brass brilliance with rhythmic drive. New compositions and original arrangements of familiar melodies by Christian Sprenger and Anne Weckeßer showcase the ensemble in all its facets. Musicians from leading German orchestras merge into a homogeneous body of sound, whose groove is further enhanced in selected works by the addition of percussion.

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Christian Sprenger, conductor

Christian Sprenger
"The moment music is created is unique and irreplaceable. Music plays with the transience of the moment and yet is simultaneously an expression of life." (Christian Sprenger 2016)

Christian Sprenger is Professor of Trombone at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar. He has also been a successful composer and publisher for many years. Just in time for the upcoming Christmas season, his new album, "Niemals war die Nacht so klar II" (The Night Was Never So Clear II), recorded with his brass ensemble genesis brass, will be released on August 24, 2018.

His appointment to the Weimar University of Music in 2010 followed many years as principal trombonist of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and his studies at the Freiburg University of Music.

In addition to his work as a teacher at the Weimar University of Music, he composes and arranges for a wide variety of ensembles. His work focuses on composing chorale preludes and fantasias for symphonic orchestra, wind ensemble, and symphonic wind orchestra. Christian Sprenger's musical roots lie in sacred wind music, and he remains closely connected to this genre through publications and workshops.

Numerous CD productions on the theme of chorale have already been recorded with the brass ensemble "genesis brass," the "Staatskapelle Weimar," and the "Sächsische Bläserphilharmonie."

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was founded in 2003 and consists of nine musicians from various German orchestras. The ensemble consists of four trumpets/flugelhorns, four trombones, and tuba.

The artistic director and founder is Christian Sprenger, who also composes and arranges for the ensemble. This unique and ongoing collaboration between the ensemble and its director, Christian Sprenger, has resulted in a distinctive sound over the past few years, characterized by its individuality and authenticity.

The opportunity to play the pieces just heard in concert with one's own ensemble is a special appeal of Genesis Brass' programs.

This album contains no booklet.