Golden X-Mas Moments II

GOLDENE MOMENTE ZUR WEIHNACHT II

STIMMGOLD VOKALENSEMBLE

LUCIA BOISSERÉE, SOPRANO
CHRISTINA MÜLLER, MEZZOSOPRANO
MARLENE KRAFT, ALTO
CHRISTOPH SCHÄFER, TENOR
MARLO HONSELMANN, BARITONE
JAKOB STEINER, BASS

ANTONINO SECCHIA *, PERCUSSION
GERTRUD WITTKOWSKY °, ZITHER


Advent and Christmas are unthinkable without the familiar songs and Carols. StimmGold now gives us a new release, Golden Moments of Christmas, to mark the most wonderful week of the year with traditional and new arrangements. A beautiful and joyful celebration of vocal music.

Release: November ‌2025

Album Details

CD-Content

01 EDUARD EBEL (1839 – 1905) / ARR. HEIKE BECKMANN: LEISE RIESELT DER SCHNEE * 
02 MAX REGER (1873 – 1916): UNSER LIEBEN FRAUEN TRAUM
03 CHRISTINE MARIA REMBECK (*1970): ICH BRACH DREI DÜRRE REISELEIN
04 AUS SCHLESIEN / ARR. CLAUS BANTZER: WAS SOLL DAS BEDEUTEN
05 CHRISTINE MARIA REMBECK: EIN REIS GEHT AUF
06 FELICITAS KUKUCK (1914 – 2001): KOMMET, IHR HIRTEN
07 ANONYM: GEBOREN IST UNS DER HEILIGE CHRIST *
08 AUS BAYERN / ARR. SEBASTIAN »WASTL« FANDERL: WANN’S HEUER A KLETZ’NBROT GEIT °
09 VOLKSLIED / ARR. YUDANIA GÓMEZ HEREDIA: KLING, GLÖCKCHEN, KLING!
10 FLORIAN MAYR (*1962): CHRISTNACHT
11 JOHANNES ECCARD (1553 – 1611): ICH STEH’ AN DEINER KRIPPEN HIER
12 MAX REGER (1873 – 1916): WEIHNACHTSLIED
13 AUS WALES / ARR. RUAIRI BOWEN: SUO GÂN
14 JONATHAN RATHBONE (*1957): THE OXEN
15 FERDINAND NEUMAIER (1890 – 1969): UND JETZ’ IS’S HALT WINTER WOR’N °
16 FLORIAN GOUGNE (*1981): WEIHNACHT
17 OLA GJEILO (*1978): NORTHERN LIGHTS
18 IRVING BERLIN (1888 – 1989) / ARR. ROBERT RICE: WHITE CHRISTMAS
19 HUGH MARTIN (1914 – 2011) / RALPH BLANE (1914 – 1995) / ARR. KEITH ROBERTS: HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
20 GEORGE MICHAEL (1963 – 2016) / ARR. JOSHUA BREDEMEIER: LAST CHRISTMAS

Gesamtspielzeit / Total length:  60:47

Deutscher Text (36 Seiten)
Texts in English (36 pages)

P + C 2025 Spektral, LC 15543
Best.-Nr. SRL4-25219
EAN: 4260130382193

Artists

StimmGold Vokalensemble

Since its founding in 2014, the vocal ensemble StimmGold has rapidly attained a central position in the German vocal scene. The six classically trained singers making up the group bring with them many years of choral and ensemble experience and are especially keen in their desire to tackle challenging repertoire. The group focuses above all on vocal music from the German Romantic period as well as contemporary a cappella literature. They have given world premieres and performed modern works especially written and arranged for them, which showcase their considerable expressive strength and harmonic clarity in a most convincing manner.
The group’s own composition competition, first held in 2018, is closely connected with their home city of Regensburg and its yearly cultural focus. To date, it has generated close to 450 new vocal works. In November 2019, their first CD, “Golden Moments for Christmas”, was released by Spektral Records. A second release on Spektral followed in 2021 and included six-part works by Hans Leo Hassler, Heinrich Schütz, a commission by Enjott Schneider (­Colours of the bells), as well as prize-winning works from the previous competition year. Their third CD, “Through the Forest”, has been recorded in 2023 in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Upper Palatinate. It consists of works dedicated to Max Reger. In 2023, StimmGold received a prize from the German Orchestral Foundation for this recording.StimmGold Vokalensemble ein Stipendium der Deutschen Orchester-Stiftung, vier OPUS KLASSIK-Nominierungen in den Kategorien: »Ensemble des Jahres«, »Choreinspielung des Jahres«, »Klassik ohne Grenzen« und »Neue Klassik« sowie eine Nominierung für den Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik im Bereich »Chor & Vokalensemble«. 2024 wurde StimmGold mit dem zweiten Preis des renommierten amerikanischen Wettbewerbs CARAs (Contemporary A cappella Recording Awards) ausgezeichnet.

www.stimmgold-vokalensemble.de

Gertrud Wittkowsky

Gertrud Wittkowsky was born in Regensburg and studied at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and the Nuremberg-Augsburg Hochschule, where she earned degrees in zither (with Georg Glasl) as well as elementary music pedagogy. In 1990 she won the Kulturförderpreis of the city of Regensburg. Along with focusing on traditional zither music and arrangements from the Renaissance and Baroque, she is also involved in contemporary and experimental projects. Her collaborators include soprano Katja Stuber and countertenor Franz Vitzthum, and she also appears with many other artists in a great many chamber music settings.
As a soloist, she has performed live for Bavarian Radio and Radio Bremen. She has taken part in the production of the opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny with the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich. The State Theatre in Augsburg has also provided new opportunities for Gertrud Wittkowsky to present her extraordinary skills to a large public.

www.gertrudwittkowsky.de

Antonino Secchia

Antonino Secchia was born in 1988 and first studied percussion in his native Italy with Fulvia Ricevuto and electro-acoustic composition with Domenico Sciajno at the Antonio Scontrino Conservatory in Trapani.
Parallel with the completion of his degree, in February 2010 he was also accepted to begin studies at the Franz Liszt Hochschule in Weimar with an Erasmus scholarship. In the winter of 2010/11 he began his studies in Weimar with the support of the New Liszt Foundation of Weimar. He completed his Konzertexamen in percussion under Markus Loeson and Gerhard Gläser in November 2023 with distinction. In March 2023, he won a scholarship from the YAMAHA Music Foundation of Europe.
Secchia has performed as a timpanist and percussionist with various orchestras including the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Jena Philharmonie, the Göttinger Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Altenburg-Gera, the ­Rudolstadt Theater, and the Landestheater of Lower Bavaria.
He has made guest appearances at many festivals, including Isole in Musica, Livelxem!, Audiovisiva – Milano, Suonafrancese, and the Weimar Frühjahrstagen for Contemporary Music. In addition, Secchia has also appeared at the Schloss Hundisburg Music Festival, Reverb Festival, and the Regensburg Jazz Weekend. As a soloist, he is active in jazz (vibraphone, percussion) as well as in other ensembles such as the Quartett Note Azure.
For some time Secchia has also been working on composing and preparing his work for music theatre, dramatic stage, and youth theatre, and has worked with the Regensburg Theater, Theater Impuls, Munich Teamtheater, and the Goethe Institut of Palermo.Weimar, der Jenaer Philharmonie, dem Göttinger Symphonie Orchester, dem Philharmonischen Orchester Altenburg–Gera, dem Theater Rudolstadt und dem Landestheater Niederbayern.
Antonino Secchia gastierte auf verschiedenen Festivals, darunter Isole in Musica, LiveIxem!, Audiovisiva – Milano, Suonafrancese, den Weimarer Frühjahrstagen für Zeitgenössische Musik, Schloss Hundisburg Musik Festival, Reverb Festival und Regensburg Jazz Weekend.
Als Solist ist er auch im Bereich Jazz aktiv (Vibraphon / Percussion), sowie in verschiedenen weiteren Formationen (wie z.B. dem Quartett Note Azure).
Seit einiger Zeit beschäftigt er sich mit der Gestaltung und Bearbeitung eigener Kompositionen für das Musiktheater, Schauspiel und das Junge Theater und arbeitete mit den Bühnen der Stadt Gera/Altenburg, dem Theater Regensburg, dem Theater Impuls, dem Teamtheater München und dem ­Goethe Institut Palermo zusammen.

www.antoninosecchia.com