About
Official Site: http://www.colbertartists.com/ArtistBio.asp?ID=55After earning his medical degree in 1998, baritone Christian Gerhaher chose to concentrate on his vocal career. That year he won the Prix International Pro Musicis in Maris, and made his debuts in New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Schubertiade Feldkirch. He has since appeared in all the major lied centers, including Wigmore Hall, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, plus numerous festivals around the world. This year, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival as Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), under Riccardo Muti. Gerhaher was awarded the 2004 ECHO Klassic award for his CD of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin. He has been an exclusive RCA Red Seal artist since 1993, and in addition to his solo works, he has performed on Maestro Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s recordings of Haydn’s Creation and Orlando Paladino, as well as with Capella Coloniensis under the baton of Bruno Weil. Praise for Christian Gerhaher “Gerhaher’s Schöne Müllerin is among the most penetrating and beautifully sung of recent years. At the price it’s a true bargain“. --BBC Music Magazine “Gerhaher's performance comes across with such freshness and ardour. It is, quite simply, one of the finest recordings of this greatest of song cycles (and, no, I haven't forgotten Winterreise) to have been released on disc for years”. --Andrew Clements, The Guardian -London “The baritone, Christian Gerhaher, is one of the remarkable new generation of German lieder-singers who have so strongly enriched the tradition carried to a peak by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau….By any reckoning, these are among the very finest versions of each of the great cycles, with the singer's regular pianist, Gerold Huber, a comparably sensitive accompanist. Gerhaher's rendering of Die Schöne Müllerin is both youthfully fresh and finely detailed, exploiting the heady freedom of his voice at the top, while Winterreise is naturally darker, exploiting the widest range of tone and expression, with words exceptionally clear”. Four Stars --Edward Greenfield, The Guardian – London “You would wish for other singers to sing like Christian Gerhaher”. --FonoForum |
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