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Sometimes when I look back on past episodes of Countermelody, I surprise myself with how good they were, even in the early days when I was still trying to figure everything out. This episode, first posted as a bonus episode five years ago is a good example of that. Earlier that season I had coined the term “Full-Figured Baroque” to describe the “old-fashioned” style of Baroque performance that I personally prefer to what one currently hears in churches and concert halls around the world and on recordings. This episode was devoted to Baroque music composed specifically for the Christmas season, recorded between 1940 and 1992, and performed in deliciously non-period style, replete with deliberate tempi, judiciously applied vibrato, and stately ritardandi. There is a special focus on the Christmas portion of Handel's Messiah and Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium and assorted cantatas for the Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany season. Singers include Janet Baker, Tom Krause, Jerry Hadley, Margaret Marshall, Francisco Araiza, Russell Oberlin, Helen Watts, William Warfield, John Shirley-Quirk, Peter Schreier, Heather Harper, Shirley Verrett, Edith Mathis, Hermann Prey, Marga Höffgen, Agnes Giebel, Kurt Equiluz, Florence Quivar, Aksel Schiøtz, Kirsten Flagstad, Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis, Brigitte Fassbaender. Ernst Haefliger, Jennifer Vyvyan, Anna Reynolds, Judith Blegen, Fritz Wunderlich, Elly Ameling, Peter Schreier, and Gundula Janowitz. Conductors include Neville Marriner, Raymond Leppard, Colin Davis, Karl Richter, Lorin Maazel, Helmut Winschermann, Vittorio Negri, Karl Münchinger, Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Eugene Ormandy, Adrian Boult, Andrew Davis, and Eugen Jochum, among others. Don't miss out on this full-figured Christmas treat! Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly or yearly support at whatever level you can afford.
For Christians, this week is probably the most central to the theology of their faith, focusing as it does on the story of the Passion of the Christ. My dear friend, the choral conductor and singer Kristina Boerger posted a fascinating meditation this week about her “complicated” relationship with this theology, and how the performance of music for Holy Week over the years has given her insight into some universal tenets about human nature and behavior. She very kindly agreed to read her essay for me to use as the basis of this week's podcast, which features music written for, and associated with, the Passion. Composers featured include, from the Baroque era, Couperin, Schütz, Handel, and Bach (with Pergolesi right on the cusp); from the 19th century, Beethoven, Schubert, and Wolf; and from the 20th century, Hindemith, Szymanowski, Poulenc, Penderecki, Frank Martin, and Arvo Pärt. Featured singers include Régine Crespin, Irmgard Seefried, Peter Schreier, Gundula Janowitz, Richard Lewis, Florence Quivar, Andrzej Hiolski, Judith Raskin, Jorma Hynninen, Margaret Marshall, Benjamin Luxon, Muriel Smith, Walter Berry, Edda Moser, and Adele Addison, plus further encounters with several of the Swiss singers we explored last week (Hugues Cuénod, Maria Stader, Eric Tappy, Pierre Mollet, and Ernst Haefliger). Whether you are Christian, agnostic, atheist, Muslim, Jew, or fall into a different category altogether, there will be something here for you of value in this episode. The Countermelody podcast is devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.
A few months ago, David and I paid a visit to Zurich. The weather was glorious, we ate well, saw interesting theater, and I found a great used record store that was probably the one inexpensive place in the entire city. I had been thinking of doing an episode on Swiss singers ever since I started the podcast nearly three years ago and this experience provided the needed impetus to put this together. It helps that, to paraphrase the bigot, “Some of my favorite singers are Swiss.” Because of the unique polyglot nature of the country, there are many different stylistic trends to be found in Swiss music and Swiss singers. As with my recent episode on Ukraine, I decided to foreground not just the singers, but also the composers, of the featured country. So not only do we get to experience the singing of such favorites as Lisa Della Casa, Charles Panzéra, Ernst Haefliger, Heinz Rehfuss, Hugues Cuénod, and Eric Tappy (with a special nod to Gloria Davy, Ira Malaniuk, and Maria Stader, all naturalized Swiss citizens), but we hear the music of Ernest Bloch, Othmar Schoeck, Arthur Honegger, Frank Martin, Hermann Suter, and others. This is just a dip of the toe into the pure waters of Swiss music and singers: episodes on individual favorites will no doubt follow in due time! Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.
durée : 00:58:39 - Une heure, un compositeur : Ludwig van Beethoven - par : Aurélie Moreau - Parmi les grands interprètes du maître de Bonn, écoutons chanter Leonie Rysanek et Ernst Haefliger, Christian Gerhaher; Dinorah Varsi et Emil Gilels au piano, le trio Barenboim - Zukerman - Du Pré, le Quatuor Belcea, et André Cluytens à la baguette.
Themen im Podcast: - wie entweiche ich einer Destabilisierung innerhalb der Hochschule? - wie finde ich einen passenden Professor? - wie stelle ich mich realitätsnah auf, um mich im Markt etablieren zu können? Hedwig Fassbender ist Gründerin des Exzellenz Labor Gesang und studierte zunächst Klavier und Schulmusik in Köln und begann danach ihr Gesangsstudium bei Ernst Haefliger in München. Sie gewann noch während ihrer Ausbildung den Hugo-Wolf-Wettbewerb in Wien und den Mozartfest-Wettbewerb in Würzburg. Ihre Karriere begann sie an den Opernhäusern in Freiburg und Basel, wo sie fünf Jahre fest engagiert war. Während dieser Zeit sang sie wichtige Mezzosopranpartien wie Cherubino, Octavian, Idamante und Nicklausse. Seit 1987 ist sie freischaffend tätig und sang als Gast unter anderem in Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Wien und Hamburg und Berlin. Inzwischen wechselte sie in das dramatische Mezzofach und sang Partien wie Carmen oder die Fricka im Ring des Nibelungen. Mit der Übernahme der Isolde am Staatstheater Saarbrücken 2001 erweiterte sie ihr Repertoire und sang seitdem auch einige Sopranrollen (Marie in Wozzeck, Fremde Fürstin in Rusalka, Marschallin im Rosenkavalier, Ariane in Ariane et Barbe-Bleue u. a.). 2003 erhielt sie eine Nominierung zur Sängerin des Jahres für ihre Interpretation der Sieglinde (Die Walküre) in Lüttich. Heute ist Hedwig Fassbender vor allem als Herodias (Salome) und als Kostelnicka/Küsterin (Jenůfa) bekannt. Seit 1999 unterrichtet sie als Professorin an der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main. Seit 2015 betreut sie regelmäßig das Opernstudio Zürich (IOS) und arbeitet mit den Sängern der Opernstudios der Pariser Oper und des Bolschoi-Theaters. Zu ihren Absolventen beispielsweise Björn Bürger, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Katharina Magiera, Kateryna Kasper, Nohad Becker, Stine Fischer, Ruzan Mantashyan, Jana Baumeister, Keith Stonum, Amadeu Tasca, Gurgen Baveyan, Esther Dierkes und Linda Sommerhage Photocredit: Matthias Baus Das alles in dieser Episode von Careers of Classical Musicians! Diese Folge wird präsentiert von Dreher.Media
durée : 00:18:25 - Disques de légende du mardi 29 juin 2021 - En septembre 1959, le chef d'orchestre hongrois Ferenc Fricsay enregistre pour Deutsche Grammophon la Messe en ut mineur de Mozart, avec l'Orchestre symphonique allemand de Berlin, le chœur de la Cathédrale Sainte-Hedwige, et en solistes Maria Stader, Herta Töpper, Ernst Haefliger et Ivan Sardi.
durée : 02:01:07 - Josef Strauss, Ernst Haefliger, Licia Albanese, Di Meola - par : François-Xavier Szymczak - Dans l' Eté classique matinal toute cette semaine, François-Xavier Szymczak s'appuiera chaque jour sur des dates anniversaires de naissance et de décès... ce matin il rendra hommage à Josef Strauss, Ernst Haefliger, Licia Albanese, Al Di Meola et Willem Dafoe. - réalisé par : Benjamin Hû
This week is the first of two episodes featuring Christmas music. I decided to feature tenors, but with a difference: none of The Three Tenors will put in an appearance. In compensation, this week I feature a panoply of superb tenors (including Fritz Wunderlich, Georges Thill, Richard Lewis, Roland Hayes, Tino Rossi, Franco Corelli, Ernst Haefliger, Richard Tauber, Karl Erb, and Matthew Swensen) in repertoire ranging across the spectrum (Handel, Adam, Gounod, Bach, Berlin, and traditional Weihnachtsmusik, with some surprises along the way). The episode concludes with a brief musical tribute to Dalton Baldwin, Gérard Souzay's partner and collaborator, who died on 12 December, a week to the day before his 88th birthday. Countermelody is a new podcast devoted to the glories of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great classical and opera singers of the past and present with the help of guests from the classical music field: singers, conductors, composers, coaches, agents, and voice teachers. Daniel’s lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. Please also visit the Countermelody website for updates, additional content, and to pledge your support. www.countermelodypodcast.com
durée : 01:58:46 - Relax ! du mardi 15 octobre 2019 - par : Lionel Esparza - Au programme un portrait du ténor suisse Ernst Haefliger dont nous fêtons cette année le centenaire de la naissance, et à qui Deutsche Grammophon consacre un coffret de 12 disques. Et notre légende du jour est l'Amoureus Tourment du baryton Marc Mauillon, un disque paru en 2006. - réalisé par : Antoine Courtin
durée : 00:26:33 - Ernst Haefliger, ténor (5/5) - Musique = Clapping de Steve Reich Voix = Coco Bonnier
durée : 00:28:32 - Ernst Haefliger, ténor (4/5) - Musique = Clapping de Steve Reich Voix = Coco Bonnier
durée : 00:27:11 - Ernst Haefliger, ténor (3/5) - Musique = Clapping de Steve Reich Voix = Coco Bonnier
durée : 00:29:18 - Ernst Haefliger, ténor (2/5) - Musique = Clapping de Steve Reich Voix = Coco Bonnier
durée : 00:27:02 - Ernst Haefliger, ténor (1/5) - Musique = Clapping de Steve Reich Voix = Coco Bonnier
Die Freude am Singen vemittlete ihm seine Mutter. Mozart, Bach und Schubert gehörten später zu den Spezialitäten des Schweizer Tenors, doch sang er Mittelalteriches ebenso gerne und gut wie zeitgenössische Musik. Über 60 Jahre währte seine Karriere. Am 6. Juli wäre Ernst Haefliger 100 Jahre alt geworden.
Some of our episodes talk about a conductor’s journey as a musician, or their philosophical understanding of the nature of choral music. Some episodes are pure toolkits: here’s what you need to solve your problems. This episode has the rare distinction of being both. Dr. Kronauer and Ryan cover the “hows” of directing teenage male voices, as well as the “whys” behind them. You’re going to want to listen to this one twice. Listen: Highlight to Tweet: “Living rigidly is not the game. The game is finding elasticity.” - Steven Kronauer Show Notes: Try thinking less in terms of “blend,” and more in terms of “agreement.” For the teenage male singer, it’s important to reassure them that change is a part of life. Whatever they are working with (or through) will be fine. When dealing with limited range, you need to offer patience and guidance. Provide a model. Avoiding “compensation,” or reaching for a pitch. (“that giraffe thing” - Ryan Guth) Posture and alignment are always important, but especially so for teenage boys. Accept and love this period of life where you’re going through change! Falsetto is huge. HUGE. Sing into a straw in a cup of water, so that the sound is focused at the front of the bubbles. It helps practice constant airflow. Hum with the tongue between the lips, concentrating on the vibration of the vocal folds while letting go of tensions. “You learn to sing by singing.” Place your singers according to what will be healthy for them. Bio: DR. STEVEN KRONAUER, a highly experienced voice teacher, tenor, and conductor, is the conductor of Los Angeles Children’s Chorus’ Young Men’s Ensemble, comprised of young men with changing voices. After completing two Master’s degrees at the University of Michigan, one in Voice Performance and the other in Choral Conducting, Dr. Kronauer began his professional career in the chorus of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany, as its youngest member ever. During his ten-year engagement, he had the privilege of meeting and studying with many noted singers of the highest echelon, including world famous Verdi tenor Dennis O’Neill and Wagnerian baritone Donald MacIntyre. Dr. Kronauer was employed as a soloist with the Bavarian State Opera for television broadcasts, CD recordings, and live radio performances, appearing with Renee Fleming, Kurt Moll, and many others, in secondary tenor roles. Dr. Kronauer performed the role of Smy in a world premiere of the German opera Peter Pan, by Willfried Hiller, directed by the world famous stage director August Everding. This performance was recorded at the Prinz-Regenten Theatre in Munich, Germany, and distributed by Deutche Gramaphone. Dr. Kronauer has studied oratorio with the finest of the field, including Ernst Haefliger and Peter Schreier, in Germany (while being a guest observer as a conductor at the Deutche Stats Oper in Berlin, Germany). He also studied with tenor John McCollum in the United States. Since then, he established a career in Europe singing oratorio under such noted conductors as Karl Anton Richenbacher and Peter Schneider. Additionally, Dr. Kronauer has sung as a soloist at the Cologne Philharmonic, and with the Munich Philharmonic in Germany. He has sung more than 100 performances of Carmina Burana, internationally. Dr. Kronauer’s interest in opera conducting was enhanced upon becoming acquainted with Zubin Mehta and Wolfgang Sawalisch at the Munich Opera. Dr. Kronauer is a soloist with many organizations since his return from Europe, including a frequent guest with the Angeles Chorale and the National Children’s Chorus, here in Los Angeles. Dr. Kronauer completed his doctorate degree at the University of California, Los Angeles in choral conducting and operatic conducting under the direction of Donald Neuen and William Vendice, respectively. He has worked with Donald Neuen as an assistant conductor with the UCLA Chorale and with Maestro Vendice as the assistant conductor of the UCLA Opera. Previously, The University of Michigan offered Dr. Kronauer the opportunity of completing two Masters Degrees in Vocal Performance (under Lorna Haywood and John McCollum) and Choral Conducting (under Theodore Morrison). There, he was the Assistant Conductor for Jerry Blackstone and the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club. He has also led a choral workshop at the University of Munich. Dr. Kronauer’s expertise focused on performance practice of American and British chorale music. While in Munich he formed The Munich Opera Chamber Chorus, which sang some of the great chamber music of the Germanic tradition, including the complete Liebeslieder waltzes. Dr. Kronauer has taught on the voice faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp and at the University of California, Irvine. He also had the honor of presenting a lecture to the National Association of Teacher’s of Singing on the “Dos and Don’ts of Starting a Singing Career in Germany.” Dr. Kronauer taught for three years as a member of the voice faculty, and the music director of the opera program at California State University, Los Angeles, conducting fully staged performances of Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck and L’incornatione di Poppea, by Monteverdi. Dr. Kronauer was the Acting Chair of the voice department of the University of California, Santa Barbara for two years and the director of opera activities producing. Currently Dr. Kronauer has a busy private voice studio and is on the faculty of California State University, Long Beach at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music teaching voice and German diction. Resources/links Mentioned: LA Children’s Chorus Vocal Wisdom Choir Nation group on Facebook Patreon - Support the podcast! Sponsored by: Sight Reading Factory (Use promo code “NINJA” at checkout for 10 free student accounts!) My Music Folders (Use promo code “NINJA” at checkout for “last column” or best pricing - usually reserved for bulk purchases only!)
LEOS JANACEK: Messa Glagolitica - Evelyn Lear, soprano, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, contralto, Ernst Haefliger, tenore, Franz Crass, basso - Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks e Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Rafael Kubelik, direttore - presentazione di Daniele Sozzani Desperati
LEOS JANACEK: Messa Glagolitica - Evelyn Lear, soprano, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, contralto, Ernst Haefliger, tenore, Franz Crass, basso - Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks e Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Rafael Kubelik, direttore - presentazione di Daniele Sozzani Desperati
Intérpretes:- Tema con variaciones: Rudolf Firkušný- Misa Glogolítica: Evelyn Lear (soprano), Hilde Rössel-Majdan (contralto), Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Franz Crass (bajo), Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelik (dir.) Dos obras claramente distintas del maestro checo: primero una pieza de juventud, de 1880, para piano, que muestra el camino de un compositor gran calidad. Y luego una obra de madurez, de 1926, imprescindible en el repertorio del siglo XX: una misa original, compleja, moderna, incluso bárbara por su potencialidad, libre, y también extraña, heterogénea, emocionanteEscuchar audio