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English baritone
- baritone
- United Kingdom
- opera singer, university teacher
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2018-12-17 07:08:00
Claude Debussy: Poèmes – Stella Doufexis, Daniel Heide (Audio video)
[…] to the BBC Proms, the Berlin Festival, the Bonn Beethoven Festival, to the Festival in Athens, the Halle Händel Festival and the Salzburg Festival, to name a few.Apart from performances at the Komische Oper Berlin, 2007-2008 season included amongst others invitations to Basel (Nuits d'été), Munich (Maurice Duruflé's Requiem) and to the German Symphony Orchestra in Berlin under Ingo Metzmacher (Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri) as well as quartet recitals (with Marlis Petersen, Konrad Jarnot and Werner Güra) in Germany and Italy with Johannes Brahms' Liebesliederwalzer and Neue Liebeslieder which Harmonia Mundi was published on CD.Stella Doufexis lived in Berlin with her husband the German composer Christian Jost. She died of cancer at age 47.Source: bach-cantatas.com Daniel Heide (Photo by Ulrike Mönnig) Daniel Heide was born in 1976 and grew up in Weimar and first joined the gifted-pupil class of Prof. Sigrid Lehmstedt at the "Belvedere" special […]
2016-09-17 22:48:00
Walter Braunfels Lieder Songs
When this concert of Walter Braunfels Songs was first broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur in 2011, it broke new ground. Eric Schneider is the pianist, with Marlis Petersen and Konrad Jarnot the singers. Many thanks to Capriccio for making this available on CD, for this disc fills a significant niche in the discography.. Marlis Petersen possesses a voice that can handle the high, bright tessitura Braunfels was so fond of, and Konrad Jarnot is both blessed and cursed by the way his voice resembles Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and Eric Schneider is an exemplary Lieder pianist. This disc is a must for anyone interested in Braunfels or indeed inbterested at all in the development of Lieder during the first part of them20th century. What lets it down, though, is the lack of context. While Braunfels is hardly unknown, he is misunderstood. If Capriccio really wants to bring Braunfels to […]
2013-04-15 17:58:00
Thigh-slapping Gemütlichkeit
[…] have become the stuff of Schubert legend. Yet despite some fine singing and playing from this clutch of leading Schubertians, I remained unconvinced that they suit a recorded medium. The partsongs and party pieces are a real rejoinder to those (including me of occasion) who think Schubert was a forlorn figure within Viennese society. They are largely jolly works, which require punch and pizzaz in performance. Marlis Petersen, Anke Vondung, Werner Güra and Konrad Jarnot offer a suitably fizzy quartet, with Christoph Berner (on a Rönisch fortepiano) offering equally spirited support. Like much of Schubert's jolliest music, however, it feels like it's protesting a bit too much, a shiny veneer under which darker truths are lurking. Track after track, the thigh-slapping Gemütlichkeit proves a little hard to swallow. The performances are, however, wonderfully true to the spirit of the compositions, not least the November 1827 composition 'Der Hochzeitsbraten' […]
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