Thomas Quasthoff
ALBUM
Una raccolta completa degli album di Thomas Quasthoff, dalle prime produzioni ai successi più recenti.
Thomas Quasthoff, Münchner Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann
The Lost Tapes - Hugo Wolf: Orchestral Songs
Thomas Quasthoff, Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Christian Thielemann
Die Stimme: Deutsche Opernarien
Edith Mathis, Jadwiga Rappé, Hans Peter Blochwitz
Krönungsmesse C-Dur KV 317
Eloquence
Thomas Quasthoff, Daniel Barenboim
Schubert: Winterreise
Live from Philharmonie Berlin / Visual AlbumThomas Quasthoff
Thomas Quasthoff singt Opern-Arien
Karita Mattila, Violeta Urmana, Thomas Moser
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 In D Minor, Op.125 - "Choral"
96 kHz / 24 Bit / Live At Philharmonie, Berlin / 2000Magdalena Kožená, Andrea Rost, Matthew Polenzani
Brahms: Lieder & Liebeslieder Waltzes
Live At Verbier Festival, Switzerland / 2003
Diana Damrau, Anna Prohaska, Rolando Villazón
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Live At Festspielhaus Baden-Baden / 2014Anna Netrebko, Thomas Quasthoff, Bryn Terfel
The Mozart Album
Thomas Quasthoff
Mein Weihnachten - Gedichte & Songs
Anne Sofie von Otter, Thomas Quasthoff, Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Schubert: Lieder With Orchestra
Thomas Quasthoff
Tell It Like It Is
Thomas Quasthoff, Genia Kühmeier, Freiburger Barockorchester
Haydn: Italian Arias
Thomas Quasthoff, Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Golz
Haydn: Italian Arias
Thomas Quasthoff, Dorothea Röschmann, Berliner Barock Solisten
Bach, J.S.: Dialogue Cantatas
International VersionThomas Quasthoff, Staatskapelle Dresden, Sebastian Weigle
Betrachte, meine Seel
Anna Netrebko, René Pape, Thomas Quasthoff
Das Mozart-Album
GAS
Thomas Quasthoff
The Voice
CD 2Thomas Quasthoff, Justus Zeyen
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin
Thomas Quasthoff, Berliner Barock Solisten, Rainer Kussmaul
Bach: Cantatas - Listening Guide
Thomas Quasthoff, Justus Zeyen
Thomas Quasthoff - A Romantic Songbook
Thomas Quasthoff, Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Christian Thielemann
Evening Star: German Opera Arias
Karita Mattila, Violeta Urmana, Thomas Moser
Beethoven: Symphonies
5 CDsThomas Quasthoff, Justus Zeyen
Brahms / Liszt: Lieder
SINGOLI
I singoli più rappresentativi di Thomas Quasthoff, tra successi storici e nuove uscite.
Thomas Quasthoff, Evgeny Kissin
Schubert: Seligkeit, D. 433
Instant Grat
Thomas Quasthoff, Münchner Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann
Wolf: Mörike-Lieder: No. 28, Gebet
Thomas Quasthoff, Münchner Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann
Wolf: Goethe-Lieder: No. 9, Der Rattenfänger
Instant Grat
Thomas Quasthoff, Verbier Festival Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi
Schubert: Schwanengesang, D. 957: No. 4, Ständchen (Orch. Offenbach)
Instant Grat / LiveBIOGRAFIA
Thomas Quasthoff was born in Hildesheim, Germany in 1959 and began his musical studies in Hanover in 1972, studying singing with Prof. Charlotte Lehmann and music theory and history with Prof. Ernst Huber-Contwig. Heralded by the press as “one of the great singers of our time and certainly one of the most remarkable of any time” (Los Angeles Times), he has worked with the most renowned orchestras and conductors worldwide at all the prestigious houses and festivals. His national and international awards include first prize at the 1988 ARD International Music Competition, the Shostakovich Prize 1996, and the Hamada Trust/Scotsman Festival Prize 1996. In November 2004 he was honoured by his native town of Hildesheim with its Ring of Honour and in October 2005 he received the Order of Merit of the Republic of Germany. Thomas Quasthoff took up an appointment as professor in the vocal department of Detmold Musikhochschule, Germany in 1996 and moved to Berlin in November 2004 to teach at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik.
1998
Appearances during the 1998/99 season include his New York recital debut, Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Sir Colin Davis, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa, Brahms’s Requiem with the Chicago Symphony and Daniel Barenboim, Mozart arias with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle and Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust with the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Bernard Haitink.
1999
Signs exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon; first release: Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn (with Anne Sofie von Otter, the Berliner Philharmoniker and Claudio Abbado; Grammy Award, 2000); debuts at the Ravinia, Tanglewood and Mostly Mozart festivals; highlights of the 1999/2000 season include his Carnegie Hall debut in Britten’s War Requiem with the Boston Symphony and Ozawa, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under Sir Simon Rattle with both the Wiener Philharmoniker and the City of Birmingham Symphony orchestras and Brahms’s Requiem with the London Philharmonic under Kurt Masur; European and US recital tours.
2000
CD releases include lieder by Brahms and Liszt (with pianist Justus Zeyen; Cannes Classical Award, 2001) and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (with Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker).
2001
Performs and records German Romantic arias with Christian Thielemann and the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper (released in 2002); other appearances include Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder under Rattle in Berlin and Mahler’s Wunderhorn under Abbado at Carnegie Hall, New York; CD release of Schubert’s Schwanengesang and Brahms’s Four Serious Songs (Echo Award, 2001).
2002
Appearances include Schumann’s Scenes from “Faust” under Abbado and Bach’s St. John Passion under Rattle, both with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Mahler song cycles under Kent Nagano at London’s Barbican Centre, Bach cantatas in the US and with the Berlin Baroque Soloists at the Salzburg Easter Festival, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius in Munich under Mehta, Mahler’s Wunderhorn songs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Hollywood Bowl and Edinburgh Festival and Haydn’s Creation under Franz Welser-Möst; recital tours of Europe and the US.
2003
First opera engagement in Beethoven’s Fidelio (Don Fernando) with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Rattle in Berlin and at the Salzburg Easter Festival; concerts include Mahler’s Wayfarer songs with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Boulez (also recorded by DG); recital tours include Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Brussels’ Théâtre de la Monnaie and the Verbier and Edinburgh festivals; CD release of Schubert songs orchestrated by famous composers (with Anne Sofie von Otter, Claudio Abbado and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe – Grammy Award, 2004 “Best Vocal Performance”).
2004
Vienna State Opera debut (Amfortas in Wagner’s Parsifal, under Donald Runnicles) and first Salzburg Festival lieder recital; other appearances include Frank Martin’s Jedermann Monologue with Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker; concerts with the New York Philharmonic including Mozart arias under Muti and Haydn’s Creation under Maazel, Mendelssohn’s Elijah under Welser-Möst, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with Eschenbach and his Wayfarer songs with Levine at the Verbier Festival, a benefit concert with the Berlin Philharmonic Jazz Group and a tour of Europe with Schubert’s Winterreise. Releases include A Romantic Songbook (Echo Award, 2004; Orphée d’or, 2005), with lieder by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Loewe, Wolf and Richard Strauss (with Justus Zeyen) and Bach cantatas with the Berlin Baroque Soloists (Midem Classical Award, Klassik-Amadeus Award, 2005; Grammy Award, BBC Music Magazine Award, 2006).
2005
Further Parsifal performances at the Vienna State Opera (under Rattle); Bach’s B minor Mass with the Zurich Opera Orchestra and Elijah with the Wiener Philharmoniker (under Welser-Möst), Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 14 with Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker, Britten’s War Requiem in Vienna, Mozart arias with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Vienna, Paris and London, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder under Metzmacher in Hamburg and Bach cantatas with the Berlin Baroque Soloists on tour in Germany and Austria. CD releases: Mahler song cycles with Boulez and the Wiener Philharmoniker and Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin (with Justus Zeyen); on DVD: Schubert’s Winterreise (with Barenboim).
2006
Engagements include Mozart arias (in Vienna under Plácido Domingo, in Salzburg under Daniel Harding, in the Carnegie Hall under Welser-Möst, and in Berlin under Barenboim, as well as with pianist Justus Zeyen), Bach’s St. John Passion and Brahms’s Requiem with Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker, orchestral songs by Pfitzner with Thielemann and Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder under Barenboim in Chicago; recitals include Carnegie Hall, the Lucerne Festival and Munich, Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise at the Schubertiade; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Verbier Festival; Schubert songs with Dorothea Röschmann, Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake. Quasthoff is awarded Il Canto del mondo’s Culture Award. CD releases: Betrachte, meine Seel – sacred arias by Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn, and The Mozart Album – a selection of arias and duets sung by Deutsche Grammophon’s star singers.
2007
Concert engagements include Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach in New York’s Carnegie Hall, Haydn’s The Creation with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Rattle in Berlin, Mozart’s Requiem with the Dresden Staatskapelle and Zubin Mehta in Dresden’s Semperoper; Mahler song cycles with the Staatskapelle Berlin and Barenboim, and Bach cantatas with the Berlin Baroque Soloists. Recitals of Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch (with Dorothea Röschmann), Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, Schumann’s Liederkreis and Brahms Die schöne Magelone accompanied by pianist Justus Zeyen. Jazz concerts with trumpeter Till Brönner at the Carnegie Hall, in Vienna, Cologne and Berlin. His jazz album, made with Till Brönner, Chuck Loeb, Alan Broadbent, Dieter Ilg and Peter Erskine, will be released in the spring. A further CD of Bach cantatas with Dorothea Röschmann and the Berlin Baroque Soloists is planned for the autumn.
