Benjamin Appl
The last student of the great baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Benjamin Appl has had equally distinguished careers in lieder, opera, and concert music. He is equally at home in modern and historically informed performances.
Appl was born in Regensburg, Bavaria, then in West Germany, in 1982. He began his singing career in the Regensburger Domspatzen, a local boys' cathedral choir with a national and even international reputation. Appl went on to the Munich University of Music and Theater, working with Helmut Deutsch and also earning a business degree in Munich at the same time. Appl rounded out his vocal training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, studying with Edith Wiens and Rudolf Piernay and working privately with Fischer-Dieskau almost until the baritone's death in 2012. Appl has performed in operas from the mid-Baroque (Purcell's Dido and Aeneas) to contemporary times (Péter Eötvös' Tri Sestri). He enthusiastically performs the standard lieder repertory, but he has also sung vocal works written for him by an unusually large variety of composers, including György Kurtág, Nico Muhly, and Susan Oswell. In 2012, he sang for Pope Benedict XVI at the latter's summer residence, Castel Gandolfo. Appl has received several major awards, including the Schubert Prize in 2012 and the Gramophone Award as New Artist of the Year 2016. His debut album was a song recital, Stunden, Tage, Ewigkeiten, released on the Champs Hill label in 2016.
Appl signed that year with the Sony Classical label and has issued several critically acclaimed albums. These include The Secret Fauré III in 2020. Appl has appeared with leading international orchestras, including the NHK Symphony Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie, and Philadelphia Orchestra, and he is also an established performer with historically oriented ensembles, such as the Akademie für alte Musik, Concerto Köln, and the Stuttgart Bach Collegium. He was also heard on an installment of Hyperion's complete cycle of Brahms songs, Vol. 7, with accompanist Graham Johnson. In 2022, Appl moved to the Alpha label and issued a recording of Schubert's song cycle Die Winterreise, D. 911. That year, he was also heard on albums of orchestral songs by Hugo Wolf and Hans Sommer on, respectively, CPO and PentaTone Classics. In 2023, he released the song recital Forbidden Fruit on Alpha.
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Discographie
16 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra
Munich Radio Orchestra, Benjamin Appl, Oscar Jockel
Classique - Paru chez BR-Klassik le 6 oct. 2023
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Forbidden Fruit
Classique - Paru chez Alpha Classics le 23 juin 2023
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Schubert: Winterreise
Classique - Paru chez Alpha Classics le 11 févr. 2022
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Hans Sommer: Orchestral Songs
Benjamin Appl, Mojca Erdmann, Anke Vondung, Mauro Peter, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Guillermo Garcia Calvo
Classique - Paru chez PentaTone le 4 nov. 2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Wolf: Orchesterlieder & Penthesilea
Benjamin Appl, Jenaer Philharmonie, Simon Gaudenz
Classique - Paru chez CPO le 6 mai 2022
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Schubert - Wigmore Hall Live
Lieder (Allemagne) - Paru chez Wigmore Hall Live le 29 avr. 2016
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Die Winterreise, D. 911: I. Gute Nacht
Classique - Paru chez Alpha Classics le 17 déc. 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bach
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez Sony Classical - Sony Music le 7 sept. 2018
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Heimat (Schubert, Wolf, Brahms, Reger, Grieg, Britten...)
Mélodies & Lieder - Paru chez Sony Music Classical Local le 10 mars 2017
Gramophone AwardGramophone Editor's Choice24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Cantatas of the Bach Family
Benjamin Appl, Christoph Hartmann, Berliner Barock Solisten, Reinhard Goebel
Classique - Paru chez haenssler CLASSIC le 19 juin 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Stunden, Tage, Ewigkeiten: Heinrich Heine – Lieder
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez Champs Hill Records le 21 janv. 2016
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Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!, BWV 70: X. Seligster Erquickungstag
Classique - Paru chez Sony Classical - Sony Music le 10 août 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 100: IV. Er ist mein Licht, mein Leben
Classique - Paru chez Sony Classical - Sony Music le 24 août 2018
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Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 7
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 30 mars 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194: III. Was des Höchsten Glanz erfüllt
Classique - Paru chez Sony Classical - Sony Music le 27 juil. 2018
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Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 7
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 30 mars 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo