Lars Vogt - Schwanengesang - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On this , father and daughter duo Lars and Isabelle Vogt perform German ballads and melodramas. Lars Vogt is one of the most sought after and versatile musicians of our time. He has performed in all the major classical venues of the world, often in collaboration with the most illustrious conductors of our day, including Sir Simon Rattle, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Harding, Paavo Järvi, Robin Ticciati, and Christian Thielemann. As conductor, Vogt himself was appointed Music Director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia in Gateshead (UK) from 2015 to 2020; he is currently Music Director of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. Born in 2002 in Berlin, Isabelle Vogt cultivated a passion for theater and drama since early childhood, and today she remains faithful to her vocation in a multitude of activities. In 2013, in Berlin, she star-ted attending the Goldoni Drama School, where she now teaches. Isabelle has participated in a number of theater performances in her native city (with the companies Theaterkollektiv Dokumentartheater Berlin, Theater 28, Grips Theater Youth Club, and others), and she has played roles in television series produced by Sky and Amazon Prime. She has also appeared as narrator in radio feature productions recorded and broadcast by Deutschlandfunk.

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Dating from the years between 1928 and 1948, the recordings in this collection were all made during the lifetime of Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). They can be credited with playing a substantial role in propagating his works around the world and in cementing his international reputation as one of the towering figures of 20th century music. The seven CDs constitute a wide-ranging survey of the composer's music. Rightly, the seven symphonies are at the heart of the collection. Symphonies No.s 1, 2, 3 and 5 are conducted by the Finn Robert Kajanus, whom Sibelius described in 1934 as Inchthe best conductor my music ever had... he worked and studied and sought unceasingly to play my works exactly as I wanted them to sound.Inch Kajanus was Creating a biographical panorama of his career, the British tenor Ian Bostridge has personally selected each track in this 7CD Autograph collection. With a focus on both song (in German and English) and opera (from Monteverdi to Adès by way of Handel, Mozart and Britten), it demonstrates just why he is recognized as one of today's most distinctive, intelligent and compelling singers. The tenor also complements his performances with an exclusive and illuminating audio interview. This is the fourth in the Autograph series, launched earlier in 2015 with collections devoted to Angela Gheorghiu, Thomas Hampson and José van Dam. Each box focuses on a single artist, providing a biographical panorama of his or her career through a series of thematically programmed CDs and fascinating documentation. Each collection is devised in collaboration with the featured artist and includes a newly-recorded exclusive interview, Illustrated with musical extracts and conducted by the distinguished journalist and broadcaster Jon Tolansky, discussing his or her life and work. Bostridge, a former Oxford academic who has written three books and has been described as