2011-2012 - Our 16th Season. Exultate is a chamber choir and orchestra founded in 1996, based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, and conducted by Thomas D. Rossin. We welcome you and appreciate your interest and support. If you are interested in Exultate auditions for the Choir or the Orchestra, Click Here. Want to know what we are performing?

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- Messiah - George Frederick Handel "The sublime, the grand, and the tender, adapted to the most elevated, majestic and moving words, conspired to transport and charm the ravished heart and ear." These words, written by a reviewer of the first performance in 1742, describe the Messiah aptly. Exultate's Festival Choir and Orchestra will present the entire Messiah during the Lenten Season, the time in which the first performance was given in 1742. You see, Messiah is not a Christmas work. It's text, almost entirely from the Old Testament, tells the story of the birth of Jesus but also includes His death, Pentecost and looking forward to the end time, the eschaton. Come hear the whole story, experience the music, be moved by the texts. Some of what you hear will be familiar to you and some will be new, exciting, thoughtful and sublime. Join us as we present this time-honored work with a Baroque sized orchestra in a setting which enhance the listener's experience. (This activity is, in part, funded by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.) Extra singers are needed for these concerts. (Click here if you are interested in auditioning for the Festival Choir.) Saturday, March 9, 2012 - 7:30 PM - Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, Plymouth Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 7:30 PM - Woodbury Lutheran Church - Woodbury Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 4:00 PM - Benson Great Hall - Arden Hills

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J. S. BACH'S BIBLE - Found in Michigan Farm House

Recently, Exultate performed the Mass in B Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. In connection with those performances we brought Bach's own personal Bible to the Twin Cities. Our conductor, Dr. Thomas Rossin wrote his dissertation on this Bible and the marginal notes left in it by Bach himself. American Public Media's program, "Speaking of Faith" has produced a wonderful multimedia slideshow on the Bible and the story of its discovery. We welcome you to view this wonderful presentation. See and hear about the discovery of Bach's Bible in a farm house in Michigan.

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A NEW RELEASE: They Shall Have Rest - The Requiems of Fauré and Rutter This recording has just been released. Hear these two marvelous compositions sung splendidly by Exultate's Festival Choir and Orchestra! Released May 2010
A NEW RELEASE: Coventry Carol This is a new release. Hear Christmas Carols arranged by John Rutter as well as other carols and the Corelli Christmas Concerto. Released December 2009
A NEW RELEASE: Psalms and Songs This is a new release. Hear Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms as well as the Bach motet Singet dem Herrn and incredible Opera Choruses. Released December 2009
A recent release: In Thee is Gladness (Vol. 2) This is a new release. Hear music performed and accompanied by Exultate accompanist, Stephen 'Gabe' Gabrielsen. Included are choral works and works for piano or organ. There is a wonderful variety of music to enjoy on this CD!
The Pinnacle of Choral Music: Mass in B Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach This is a recent release. Experience the pinnacle of choral music and Bach's culmination of a lifetime of musical gifts to the world. This 2 CD set presents the 27 movements of this work which was never performed in Bach's lifetime.
A fine recording: Penitence and Praise It includes Francis Poulenc's Gloria as well as other wonderful choral motets and anthems. Hear glorious choral music sung extremely well!
Our Best Seller: The Seven Last Words of Christ by Théodore Dubois. This is a new release which replaces a recording by the same name released by Exultate in 1999. Hear new soloists, instrumentalists and choir in this English language version using the translation most people have heard or sung.
Our latest Christmas release: Tidings of Joy This CD features Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols, and John Rutter's Brother Heinrich's Christmas (A Christmas Fable for all ages.) Also includes other carols.
A very popular release: FROSTIANA Robert Frost's poems set to music by Randall Thompson using full orchestra (RARE!). Also included are other choral works.
A recent release: EMMANUEL ­ with us + for us + in us A new Oratorio created by melding together 18 movements from some of the greatest music ever composed - Emmanuel performed by Exultate's Festival Chorus and Orchestra.
A new version: Mozart Requiem The Robert Levin Completion of Mozart's Requiem performed by Exultate's Festival Chorus and Orchestra. (Also includes the Adagio from Mozart's Clarinet Concerto.)
For Christmas: Ceremony of Carols - Benjamin Britten's brilliant setting of Olde English carols, sung by women's voices and accompanied by harp. A stunning performance! Other sacred Christmas music included.
More Christmas Music - Several sacred collections including Rutter's Gloria, Handel's Messiah, Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and other carols, beloved and unique.
Mozart: Grand Mass in C Minor
Brahms: Requiem sung in English
Organ & Piano: Stephen Gabrielsen plays organ and piano music on this CD entitled In Thee is Gladness.
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