The Sound and The Fury (vocal ensemble)

The Sound and the Fury (founded 2005) is an Anglo-German vocal group convening in Brixen and Vienna, specialising entirely in performance of renaissance polyphony of the Franco-Flemish school.

The core members of the group are Thomas E. Bauer (baritone)^[1] of Regensburg, whose earlier ensemble Vokalsolisten Ratisbona was the genesis of the ensemble, John Potter (tenor),^[2] and Richard Wistreich (bass),^[3] supplemented by other singers. The line up of performers on the ensemble's first 2005 recording of Gombert included Ulrike Hofbauer (soprano), David Erler (alto), Hubert Nettinger (tenor), Jason Darnell (tenor), Christof Hartkopf (baritone).

Discography

Vokalsolisten Ratisbona - the earlier group led by Thomas E. Bauer

Media Vita, Intabolatura di Balli. Vokalsolisten Ratisbona - Thomas E. Bauer, Luca Scandali, Mauro Occhionero. ORF 333 (2 CDs)
Musik aus Brixen - Christoph Sätzl [de] (1593-1655), Johann Stadlmayr (c.1575-1648), Johann Jakob Walther. Vokalsolisten Ratisbona, Thomas E. Bauer. ORF 301 (2 CDs)

The Sound and the Fury - Paradise regained series for ORF (continued on FRA BERNARDO)

Firminus Caron 1. Missa "L'homme armé". Missa "Accueilly m'a la belle" ORF 3057 live SACD (2008)
Firminus Caron Complete Masses & Chansons, fra bernardo fb 1207302
Guillaume Faugues 1. Missa "Le Serviteur" Missa "Je suis en la mer" ORF 3025 SACD
Guillaume Faugues 2. Missa "L'homme armé" . Missa "Vinus vina vinum" ORF 3115 live 2 CDs (2009)
Nicolas Gombert 1. Missa "Quam pulchra es". 5 Motets. ORF 463 live (2005)
Nicolas Gombert 2. Missa "Sur tous regretz". 7 Motets, ORF 3006 live (2006)
Nicolas Gombert 3. 12 motets a 4,5. ORF 3077
Jakob Obrecht 1. Missa "Rosa playsante". Missa "Fortuna desperata" ORF 3048 live 2 CDs (2008)
Johannes Ockeghem 1. Missa "L'Homme armé". Missa "Prolationum" ORF 3024 2009
Johannes Ockeghem 2. Missa "Ecce Ancilla Domini". Missa "My my" ORF 3130 live 2010
Johannes Ockeghem Missa cuiusvis toni, Missa prolationum, fra bernardo fb 1302202
Pierre de La Rue 1. Missa "Ave Sanctissima Maria" Missa O salutaris Hostia à 4, ORF 3094

References

^ Thomas E. Bauer
^ John Potter website "The Sound & the Fury - For the last three years John Potter, Richard Wistreich and Thomas Bauer have met in Bressanone (Brixen) to perform and record the music of Gombert. Brixen (in northern Italy) is twinned with Thomas Bauer’s home town of Regensburg and the group, expanded by up to six other German singers, has been known as the Vokalsolisten Ratisbona. The mixture of live concert and rehearsal recordings has produced two CDs for ORF, and on the current release the ensemble found itself renamed The Sound and the Fury. Two more CDs are now complete and the group will reassemble in Vienna in September to record two Ockeghem masses, also for ORF."
^ Royal Northern College of Music - Richard Wistreich

[1] Thomas E. Bauer

[2] John Potter website "The Sound & the Fury - For the last three years John Potter, Richard Wistreich and Thomas Bauer have met in Bressanone (Brixen) to perform and record the music of Gombert. Brixen (in northern Italy) is twinned with Thomas Bauer’s home town of Regensburg and the group, expanded by up to six other German singers, has been known as the Vokalsolisten Ratisbona. The mixture of live concert and rehearsal recordings has produced two CDs for ORF, and on the current release the ensemble found itself renamed The Sound and the Fury. Two more CDs are now complete and the group will reassemble in Vienna in September to record two Ockeghem masses, also for ORF."

[3] Royal Northern College of Music - Richard Wistreich

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