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Howard Arman
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Howard Arman (born 1954, London) is an English choral conductor and opera director. He won the Handel Music Prize of the Handel Festival, Halle, in 1996, shaped the festival's orchestra and conducted operas of George Frideric Handel. He is a conductor of the Theater and Philharmonie Thüringen, also the Luzerner Theater. Howard Arman studied at the Trinity College of Music. He first worked with leading British ensembles, but moved to Austria and Germany in 1981. Arman has conducted (among others) the radio choirs of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, the Südwestrundfunk, the Österreichischer Rundfunk and the RIAS Kammerchor. From 1983 to 2000 he was the leader of the Salzburger Bach-Chor and since 1998 he has been director and artistic leader of the MDR-Rundfunkchor, the choir of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR). He is general music director of Theater and Philharmonie Thüringen for the 2010/2011 season and musical director of the Luzerner Theater for three years from the 2011/12 season onwards. Since 2010/11 he has been the musical leader of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester (LSO), with James Gaffigan as the LSO's conductor. In 1984 he prepared the Tölzer Knabenchor for a recording of Bach's Mass in B minor with Andrew Parrott and the Taverner Consort and Players. Starting in 1993 he shaped the Händel-Festspielorchester, the orchestra of the Handel Festival, on period instruments, which earned him the Festival's Handel Prize of 1996. He conducted Handel's opera Tolomeo in 1996 at
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7 Variations on "Happy Birthday": Var. 2, Romantic
2752H. Schütz: Musikalische Exequien op. 7, SWV 279-281/I. Concert in Form einer teutschen Begräbnis-Missa: "Nacket bin ich von Mutterleibe kommen" SWV 279
973H. Schütz: Die mit Tränen säen SWV 378 (Geistliche Chormusik 1648, Nr. 10)
714H. Schütz: Musikalische Exequien op. 7, SWV 279-281/II. Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe SWV 280
635Which Was the Son Of...
586M. Praetorius: Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin
587H. Schütz: Musikalische Exequien op. 7, SWV 279-281/III. Canticum B. Simeonis: "Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener"-"Selig sind die Toten" SWV 281
568M. Praetorius: Herzlich lieb hab ich dich
509O Du Fröhliche
5010H. Schütz: Das ist je gewißlich wahr SWV 388 (Geistliche Chormusik 1648, Nr. 20)
41albums
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Howard Arman: Happy Birthday
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Heinrich Schütz/Michael Praetorius/Johann Hermann Schein/Johannes Christoph Demantius: Musikalische Exequien/Trauermusik des 17. Jahrhunderts
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Arvo Pärt: Miserere (Live)
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Angelus ad Pastores - Weihnachtsgeschichte
Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 mit Werkeinführung (Live)
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Christmas Surprises
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More Christmas Surprises
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Weihnachtsklassiker - Alle Jahre wieder, die schönsten Weihnachtslieder
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Mendelssohn: Psalmen — Verleih uns Frieden Gnädiglich
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Rossini: Stabat Mater
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Silcher, F.: Ich Ging Einmal Spazieren / Schumann, R.: Es Wollt Ein Jagerlein Jagen / 5 Gesange Aus H. Laubes Jagdbrevier
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Schütz, Praetorius, Schein & Demantius: 17th-Century Funeral Music