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About the vocalist Waltraud Rennebaum |
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| As a singer and composer of Hebrew songs Waltraud Rennebaum developed her own and unmistakable style of music during the last 14 years. Her performances of biblical psalms in their original Hebrew language are inventive and skillfull. Far beyond Israeli tourist folklore and trend setting Klezmer, she is making music of great stylistic variety with her "Ensemble Shoshan" that she founded in 1994 together with her husband, pianist Raimund Rennebaum. Jewish vocal colouring and classical European music tradition are blending to a unique sound, in which Orient and Occident meet. Waltraud's warm mezzo-soprano voice, which at times is calm and contemplative and at other times vivacious, is characterized by fine nuances in in expression and timbre. Initially Waltraud Rennebaum had intended to become a classical orchestral-musician. She studied French horn at the German music academies of Cologne, Detmold and Dusseldorf, before she began consecrating herself to singing. Inspired by her Christian faith, Waltraud intensely dealed with the Jewish Bible, the Old Testament, which sparked her interest in Israel. She received private tuition in Hebrew for some years, learning ancient Hebrew as well as modern Ivrit, and she visited the land of Israel. Waltraud is deeply aware of the coherences between the Old and the New Testament. That's why her public performances always make the audience encounter the sources of the Christian faith, the biblical Hebrew culture. So the listeners will learn through her concert presentation something about the backgrounds of the psalms or about the signification of the biblical feasts. Up to now more than eighty of Waltraud's song compositions have been recorded on six CD albums, four of them for adults and two for children. Verses from the Bible, mostly psalms, are the basis for the lyrics in German and Hebrew. Her latest album "Ma'alot" contains the psalms 120 through 134 in Hebrew language set to music mainly in original compositions. It has been released in autumn of 2007 by the German record label Haenssler CLASSIC. Besides giving concerts, the multitalented artist occasionally writes articles or gives lectures about the book of psalms. |
translated by B. Botheroyd and R.R. |
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