Max van Egmond

Max van Egmond ( born 1 February 1936 in Semarang ) is a Dutch singer of vocal registers bass baritone and bass. He is known for oratorio and lieder, particularly in the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Life

Max van Egmond studied singing in Hilversum at Tine van Willingen Delorme. At 18, he became a member of De Nederlandse Bachvereniging (Netherlands Bach Society ).

From 1965 he worked in the complete recordings of all of Bach's works by Gustav Leonhardt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Frans Brüggen. The St. Matthew Passion he first took on in 1969 with Claudio Abbado and Harnoncourt 1970, where he sang the bass arias. In 1973, he took the words of Christ on with Johan van der Meer, 1977 Charles de Wolff, 1989 with Gustav Leonhardt. In the St. John Passion, he took the words of Christ in 1965 with Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus Vienna, 1979, van der Meer, 1986 de Wolff, and 1987, the arias with Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande.

He was involved in Harnoncourt's recording of Monteverdi's operas, L'Orfeo in 1968, in 1971 the first complete recording of Il ritorno d' Ulisse in patria. He also appeared in recent operas, as in premieres of De Nederlandse Opera, Het Zwarte 1962 Blondje of Jurriaan Andriessen, 1963 Three's Company by Antony Hopkins.

In 1969 he was the soloist in Reger's Hebbel - Requiem in concerts that were recorded live at the Berlin Philharmonie, with the boys choir and the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Joachim Carlos Martini. In 1976, he led the choir in Handel's Messiah at Kloster Eberbach. In 1998 he sang the words of Christ in Bach's St. Matthew Passion in St. Martin, Idstein, with Elisabeth Scholl and Andreas Scholl.

Max van Egmond sang songs of romance, among other things, by Schubert, Schumann and Fauré, accompanied on period instruments. Songs by Gabriel Fauré were accompanied by Jos van Immerseel on an Erard piano from 1897. Schubert's Winterreise was accompanied by Penelope Crawford on a fortepiano by Conrad Graf of 1835.

He taught at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam from 1980 to 1995 and held master classes from each year in Mateus, Portugal, and since 1978 at the Baroque Performance Institute in Oberlin, Ohio. Among his pupils heard Harry van der Kamp.

Recordings

  • St Matthew Passion, Peter Schreier, Hermann Prey, Teresa Zylis - Gara, Margarita Lilova, Coro di Voci Bianche dell'Oratorio Immacolata di Bergamo, Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano della RAI, Claudio Abbado, Dino Classics 1969
  • BACH, JS: St. Matthew Passion, Kurt Equiluz, Karl Ridder Busch, Soprano Soloists of the Vienna Boys Choir, James Bowman, Tom Sutcliffe, Paul Esswood, Nigel Rogers, Michael Schopper, Regensburg Cathedral Choir, Choir of King 's College, Cambridge, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Teldec 1970
  • Motetti ed arie a basso solo, Monteverdi: Laudate Dominum. Carissimi: O vulnera Doloris. Frescobaldi: Maddalena alla croce. Francesca Caccini: O che nuovo stupor. Bassani: Nascere, dive puellule. Cazzati: Factum est praelium magnum. Giovanni Battista Brevi: Catenae terrenae. Cazzati: roup In calvaria. Benedetto Marcello: Dal augusto tribunal. Ricercar Consort. Ricercar. In 1988.
  • Cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach for Bass solo: I will bear the cross -staff gladly & I've had enough, Frans Brüggen, SONY 1977
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The last sufferings of the Redeemer, Barbara Schlick, Greta de Reyghere, Catherine Patriasz, Christoph Prégardien, La Petite Bande, Collegium Vocale Gent, Sigiswald Kuijken, SONY
  • Songs by Gabriel Fauré, Jos van Immerseel, Piano, Channel Classics 1995
  • Franz Schubert Swan Song, Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe, Kenneth Slowik, fortepiano, Musica Omnia 2001
  • Schubert: Winterreise, Penelope Crawford, fortepiano, Musica Omnia 2006
  • Schubert: The Beautiful Miller, Penelope Crawford, fortepiano, Musica Omnia 2006
  • Bach: Missae Breves, Peter Watchorn, organ, Publick Musick, Thomas Folan, Musica Omnia 2006
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