About Us: Ensemble Nobiles was founded in January 2006. The choristers met each other during their nine-year education in fine arts as members of the St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig.
Today the ensemble consists of tenors Christian Pohlers and Paul Hell... moreEnsemble Nobiles was founded in January 2006. The choristers met each other during their nine-year education in fine arts as members of the St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig.
Today the ensemble consists of tenors Christian Pohlers and Paul Heller as well as basses Felix Hübner, Lucas Heller and Lukas Lomtscher. Their repertoire ranges from late medieval mass songs to modern age works. The five young musicians attach great importance to the works of German Romantic composers, such as Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn Bartholdy, as well as to their extensive repertoire of church music.
The ensemble successfully collaborates with a number of other artists, such as the composer Manfred Schlenker(GER), who dedicated his motet Gott wohnt in einem Lichte to the quintet, on a regular basis. Volker Bräutigam wrote several pieces for them to perform during the festivities at the 35th Leipziger Jazztage. The vocal ensemble Sjaella has been another partner in numerous successful collaborations throughout the years.
In summer 2012 Ensemble Nobiles participated as one of four selected groups in a practical seminar under the direction of vocal teacher Werner Schüssler(GER) and the former Hilliard singer John Potter(GB).
Extracts from several concerts by Ensemble Nobiles were broadcasted in a number of countries.
In 2014 Ensemble Nobiles was recognized for its artistry with scholarships from the German Music Council and Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben as well as a special prize from the Marie-Luise Imbusch Foundation.
In addition to several performances in Germany on significant occasions like the renowned Bachfest Leipzig the ensemble also performed in France, Netherlands and New Zealand.
COMPETITIONS
2013 - 6th Choir Competition of Saxony(GER) - 1st place in the category 'Vokalensemble' and special price from the Ministry of State for science and cultural affairs.
2013 - 2013 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Nominees: category "Best Classical Song" - “Gott Wohnt in Einem Lichte” on Eine Deutsche Messe / A German Mass by Ensemble Nobiles (the only one without english text)
2014 - 40th German Music Competition - scholarship from the German Music Council (Federal Selection of Concerts for Young Artists), Marie-Luise Imbusch-Foundation and Special Price from the German Foundation for Musical life.
+++Records+++
+++ A German Mass [GENUIN classics]
Ensemble Nobiles has already earned itself a place in the a cappella pantheon. The five former choristers of the famed St. Thomas Church choir in Leipzig present a recording of Franz Schubert’s German Mass and skillfully round off the disc with contemporary motet settings.
The young ensemble not only performs settings by church musicians such as Hugo Distler and Manfred Schlenker, but also feature the works of several St. Thomas cantors.
The motet Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich (Grant us your gracious peace) by the current Leipzig Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller brings this CD of sacred vocal works full circle – from Schubert all the way to the music of our times.
+++ Hugo Distler (1908 - 1942) [RONDEAU Production]
Commemorating the 70th anniversary of Hugo Distler’s death, two successful vocal ensembles from Leipzig perform together on a single CD for the first time. The three- and four-voice motets recorded by the young ladies of the Sjaella sextet and the five young gentlemen of the Ensemble Nobiles represent some of the highlights from Distler’s choral oeuvre: the Jahrkreis op. 5, and the Geistliche Chormusik op. 12. One of the composer’s best-known works, the Totentanz op. 12 no. 2, stands at the heart of this disc.
The fourteen motets for Eternity Sunday contained in the Totentanz op. 12 no. 2 were set to music by Hugo Distler and form the work’s musical part. Distler accompanies the motets with non-musical verses that narrate a dialogue between death and his numerous victims. While on the present recording some of the victims’ roles are spoken by the singers themselves, Heinz-Martin Benecke lends death his charismatic voice.
The Totentanz topos is known especially through its pictorial representations of death’s hold on human life that were popular during the fourteenth century. The Lübeck Totentanz depicts clerics and lay people, from the Pope to an innocent child, in descending hierarchical order and separates them from each other by a dancing image of death clothed with a shroud. Its central message is: everyone, be he emperor or slave, will perish. less
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