Die Nacht ist vorgedrungen Richard Resch & Ensemble La Silla

• Johannes Petzold (1912 - 1985): Die Nacht ist vorgedrungen:
• 1 Petzold: Die Nacht ist vorgedrungen 02:39
• Traditional: Maria durch ein Dornwald ging (Arr. For string ensemble by Silvan Loher):
• 2 Traditional: Maria durch ein Dornwald ging (Arr. For string ensemble by Silvan Loher) 03:52
• Johann Rosenmüller (1619 - 1684): Träuffelt Ihr Himmel von oben:
• 3 Rosenmüller: Träuffelt Ihr Himmel von oben 05:06
• Franz Tunder (1614 - 1667): Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme:
• 4 Tunder: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme 06:13
• Wolfgang Carl Briegel (1626 - 1712): Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her:
• 5 Briegel: Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her 07:54
• Dieterich Buxtehude (ca. 1637 - 1707): In dulci jubilo.
• 6 Buxtehude: In dulci jubilo 07:01
• Christoph Graupner (1683 - 1760): Das Leben war das Licht der Menschen:
• 7 Graupner: Das Leben war das Licht der Menschen: I. Aria 01:50
• 8 Graupner: Das Leben war das Licht der Menschen: II. Recitativo 01:17
• 9 Graupner: Das Leben war das Licht der Menschen: III. Aria Vivace 06:53
• 10 Graupner: Das Leben war das Licht der Menschen: IV. Choral 01:11
• 11 Graupner: Das Leben war das Licht der Menschen: V. Recitativo 01:28
• 12 Graupner: Das Leben war das Licht der Menschen: Vi. Aria 03:41
• 13 Graupner: Das Leben war das Licht der Menschen: VII. Choral 01:17
• Traditional: Miladuka:
• 14 Traditional: Miladuka 05:03
• Une petite feste à Bethlehem:
• 15 Traditional: Une petite feste à Bethlehem 03:11
• William Byrd: Out of the orient crystal Skies:
• 16 Byrd: Out of the orient crystal Skies 03:33
• Thomas Ravenscroft: Remember O thou Man:
• 17 Ravencroft: Remember O thou Man 04:35
• Traditional: La Noël Passée (Arr. Britten):
• 18 Traditional: La Noël Passée (Arr. Britten) 03:38
• Nous voici dans la ville:
• 19 Traditional: Nous voici dans la ville 03:53
• Otto Abel (1905 - 1977): Von guten Mächten treu und still umgeben:
• 20 Abel: Von guten Mächten treu und still umgeben 05:03
• Total Runtime 01:19:18

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Tenor Richard Resch presents a moving Christmas album that explores the season's deeper meaning through sacred and folk music. Named after Jochen Klepper's powerful Advent hymn, the album traces the symbolic journey from darkness to light, weaving together Baroque masterpieces, traditional carols, and lesser-known gems from across Europe.

With works by Rosenmuller, Briegel, Graupner, Buxtehude, and others, the recording offers a musical meditation on hope, faith, and the light born at Christmas. Highlights include the mystical Maria durch ein Dornwald ging, the Byzantine chant Miladuka, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Von guten Machten--a testament to trust in the darkest of times.

For Richard Resch and his ensemble, this album is both personal and profound. "These pieces remind us that Christmas is not just a tradition--it's a message of light in the midst of night."

Richard Resch, tenor
Ensemble La Silla

Richard Resch
Born in Regensburg, the tenor Richard Resch received his first musical training at the Regensburger Domspatzen humanistic music high school, where he came into contact with a wide musical repertoire right from the start and was able to work with many well-known artists. After graduating from high school, he first studied elementary music education, piano and singing education at the Nuremberg-Augsburg University of Music, including with Agnes Habereder. The pedagogical studies were followed by singing studies with Prof. Hans-Joachim Beyer as well as with Edda Sevenich and Prof. Dominik Wortig at the Leopold Mozart Center at the University of Augsburg. In addition to his singing work, he also studied music education and concert pedagogy at the Leopold Mozart Center and then deepened his knowledge of early music and ensemble singing at the Academy of Early Music “Schola Cantorum Basiliensis” at the Basel Music Academy. In addition to many well-known lecturers such as Evelyn Tubb, Marcelo Amaral, Frieder Bernius, Anthony Rooley and Tobias Truniger, who accompanied him through his studies, Richard Resch rounded off his training with master classes, among others. with Brigitte Fassbaender, Margreet Honig, Regina Resnik, Irwin Gage, Rudolf Jansen, Rudolf Piernay, Udo Reinemann, Wolfram Rieger and Gerd Türk.

Richard Resch is a winner of several international competitions, such as the “Concorso Internazionale del Canto Lirico Toti dal Monte” in Treviso, the “International Singing Competition Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg” and the “International Opera Competition Gut Immling”. He was also honored with the City of Augsburg's Art Promotion Prize.

As part of his busy work as a concert and opera singer, engagements have taken him to various venues such as the Augsburg and Braunschweig State Theaters, the Bregenz State Theater, the Opéra National de Bordeaux and the Bavarian State Opera, as well as festivals such as the Leipzig Bach Festival and the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Bach Montréal Festival, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, the ION Musica Sacra in Nuremberg, the Munich Opera Festival, the Stuttgart Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Salzburg Mozart Week. Richard Resch works with many well-known conductors, such as Howard Arman, Francesco Corti, Christoph Eschenbach, Paul Goodwin, Christoph Hammer, Ton Koopman, Sigiswald Kuijken, Michel Laplénie, Andrea Marcon, Marc Minkowski, Andrew Parrott, Philippe Pierlot, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Joshua Rifkin, Helmuth Rilling, Christophe Rousset, Morten Schuldt-Jensen, Andreas Spering, Jos van Veldhoven and Peter Whelan as well as with well-known ensembles and orchestras such as the Bachkollegium Stuttgart, the Bremen Philharmonic, the Capella Istropolitana, the La Cetra Baroque Orchestra, Les Musiciens Du Louvre, the German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate, the La Folia Baroque Orchestra, the Kanazawa Orchestra Ensemble, the Lautten Compagney Berlin, the Leipzig Chamber Orchestra, the Neue Münchener Hofkapelle, the symphony orchestras of the Bavarian Radio, the Hessian Radio and the Südwestrundfunk or Vox Luminis and the Ensemble Continuum. Numerous concerts and radio productions take Richard Resch throughout Europe, from Norway to Italy, from Spain to Russia, as well as to China and Japan, where he performed in concert halls such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Philharmonie in the Gasteig, the Beijing National Center Of Performing Arts or the Tokyo Opera City.

In 2019 he made his debut with Schubert's Winterreise in the USA, with further country debuts in Brazil and South Africa coming soon. In addition to the well-known stage and concert repertoire, chamber music making is particularly important to him - whether in a song duo with piano, lute or guitar, or with a string or vocal ensemble, from the Renaissance to contemporary works. With collaborative, transparent music-making, he also likes to introduce the audience to lesser-known repertoire. For example, with the newly founded vocal ensemble “Alerĭon” or established groups such as “Vox Luminis” or “Voces Suaves”. Richard Resch is increasingly dedicating himself to educational activities and passes on his personal experiences and technical knowledge to students worldwide in interpretation classes and master courses, most recently at Hong Kong University, the Kharkov National Kotlyarevsky University of Arts, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the West Texas A&M University.

In November 2022, his solo debut CD “If I only have you” was released by Carpe Diem Records. Franz Schubert's "Winterreise" followed in autumn 2023 together with Diego Caetano, published by Da Vinci Classics.

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