Mike Fentross
Dutch string player Mike Fentross is well known for performances on the lute, theorbo, vihuela, and Baroque guitar. He is the director of his own ensemble, La Sfera Armoniosa, and is an educator in the Netherlands.
Fentross was a student of Toyohiko Satoh at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague in the late 1980s. He went on for further studies with Nigel North and José Miguel Moreno. Fentross did an apprenticeship as a continuo player with the group Les Arts Florissants and other European Baroque groups of the 1990s. He won the Van Wassenaer Competition in Amsterdam in 1994, and by the late 1990s he had, in the words of the School for Early Music, "earned his spurs" as an early music specialist who appeared on albums with top artists both inside and beyond the world of early music. These included Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Lucy van Dael, and conductor Jaap van Zweden. Fentross formed his own ensemble, La Sfera Armoniosa ("The Harmonious Sphere"), in 1991; the group has remained active into the late 2010s. He has also conducted larger productions, including one of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 at the Festival for Ancient Music in Utrecht, and a rare production of the early opera Dafne by Marco da Gagliano. Since 1997 he has taught lute and continuo at his alma mater, the Royal Conservatory in the Hague.
His recording career has continued vigorously, in the capacities of soloist, ensemble member, and conductor. Fentross accompanied the BRISK recorder quartet on the 1997 recording Music of the Spheres, featuring English Renaissance consort songs and instrumental music. He has led La Sfera Armoniosa on several recordings, including La Lucrezia, a collection of Handel's Italian cantatas featuring contralto Sonia Prina, and a pair of rarely performed operas by 17th century Italian composer Francesco Cavalli, La Rosinda and, in 2019 on the Challenge Classics label, L'Ipermestra.
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20 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Van Wassenaer: VI Concerti Armonici
Mike Fentross, La Sfera Armoniosa
Classique - Paru chez Challenge Classics le 29 sept. 2023
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Circus Dinogad
Mike Fentross, Hilary Summers, Maarten Ornstein, Dudok Quartet Amsterdam
Classique - Paru chez Zefir le 17 nov. 2023
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Freedom - Oratorio Arias
Mike Fentross, Oscar Verhaar, La Sfera Armoniosa
Oratorios sacrés - Paru chez Challenge Classics le 5 avr. 2024
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Francesco Cavalli: L'ipermestra (Live)
La Sfera Armoniosa, Mike Fentross
Classique - Paru chez Challenge Classics le 31 mai 2019
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Francesco Cavalli : La Rosinda (Intégrale)
Intégrales d'opéra - Paru chez Ludi Musici le 3 janv. 2012
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Willem de Fesch: Concerti Grossi & Violin Concertos
La Sfera Armoniosa, Mike Fentross, Lidewij van der Voort
Classique - Paru chez Challenge Classics le 8 janv. 2021
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To Dowland or Not to Dowland
Classique - Paru chez Zefir Records le 5 oct. 2018
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Symphony While the Swans Come Forward (Live Recording)
Johannette Zomer, Mike Fentross, La Sfera Armoniosa
Classique - Paru chez Challenge Classics le 1 juin 2018
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Oblivion soave
Mike Fentross, Maarten Ornstein
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Zefir Records le 20 mai 2016
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Semper Dowland
Classique - Paru chez Zefir Records le 21 mai 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Hellendaal: Six Grand Concertos Op. 3 (Live)
La Sfera Armoniosa, Mike Fentross, Lidewij van der Voort
Classique - Paru chez Challenge Classics le 23 sept. 2022
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Stelle lucenti
Mike Fentross, Emma Huijsser, Paulina Van Laarhoven, Nora Fischer, Claron McFadden
Classique - Paru chez Zefir Records le 16 oct. 2020
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Opera Omnia XII: Chamber music vol. 1
Ton Koopman, Jonathan Manson, Catherine Manson, Mike Fentross, David Rabinovich
Classique - Paru chez Challenge Classics le 3 sept. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Simpson: The Four Seasons
Voix Humaines, Les, Jay Bernfeld, Mike Fentross, Rejean Poirier
Classique - Paru chez ATMA Classique le 1 août 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Handel: Saul HWV 53, Act II: O Lord, whose mercies numberless
La Sfera Armoniosa, Oscar Verhaar, Mike Fentross
Classique - Paru chez Challenge Classics le 15 mars 2024
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Handel: Deborah, HWV 51, Act I: All Danger Disdaining
La Sfera Armoniosa, Oscar Verhaar, Mike Fentross
Classique - Paru chez Challenge Classics le 23 févr. 2024
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Music of the Spheres, English Consort Songs and Instrumental Music, 16th Century
Brisk Recorder Quartet Amsterdam, Maarten Koningsberger, Mike Fentross
Classique - Paru chez Globe le 1 janv. 1997
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Amarilli mia bella
Nico van der Meel, La Sfera Armoniosa, Mike Fentross
Classique - Paru chez Zefir Records le 1 sept. 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Marais: Suites Pour Viole
Jay Bernfeld, Carol Lewis, Francoise Johannel, Skip Sempé, Mike Fentross
Classique - Paru chez Universal Music Division Decca Records France le 1 janv. 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Kapsberger: Alla Caccia
La Sfera Armoniosa, Mike Fentross
Classique - Paru chez CarltonClassics le 1 janv. 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo