Robin Blaze
Robin Blaze began to emerge as a leading counter-tenor late in the 1990s. In common with most singers of his voice type, he is primarily a specialist in early music, especially Baroque and Classical era opera.
His father was a professional golfer, instilling in Blaze a love for that game he still pursues despite his increasingly busy concert and operatic schedule. Blaze studied music at Oxford's Magdalen College. He then won a scholarship from the Countess of Munster Trust to pursue post-graduate studies at the Royal College of Music. He has since joined the faculty of the Royal College.
Britain's Classic CD magazine described his greatest assets as a crystal-clear tone and an exceptional ability at phrasing, enabling him to treat words with special sensitivity.
These and other attributes have led him to a starring position in the world of early music interpretation. He has appeared at the Boston Early Music Festival and other major early music festivals in Beaune, Karlsruhe, Utrecht, Jerusalem, Barossa Valley, and Saintes. Some of the ensembles with which he has performed are the Sixteen, Oxford Camerata, I Fagiolini, Fretwork, Robert King and King's Consort, Collegium Vocale Ghent, the Dufay Collective, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Tafelmusik, the English Concert, and the Academy of Ancient Music.
His Boston Early Music Festival performance was in its acclaimed production of Purcell's King Arthur. Blaze has also sung the part of the God of Dreams in Purcell's Indian Queen (at Schwetzingen and Queen Elizabeth Hall), Narciso in Handel's Agrippina (Karlsruhe), Unulfo in Handel's Rodelinda (Broomhill Opera Festival), and Anfinomo in Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (Teatro San Carlos of Lisbon).
He is also active as a recital and concert singer and in the recording studio. He has made discs for Naxos, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, BIS, Deutsche Grammophon, and Virgin Classics. Among his records are a set of German Baroque cantatas, several sets of Bach cantatas (for both BIS and DG), English lute songs with Elizabeth Kenny, Vivaldi's Stabat Mater, a program of music by Purcell and Blow with René Jacobs, Boyce's Peleus and Thetis, and sets of anthems by Blow (Hyperion) and Gibbons (Naxos). His recording debut was in 1981, when he was a boy treble, an issue that is now out of print.
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Bach, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 37 - Bwv 35, 169, 170, 200
Classique - Paru chez BIS le 1 janv. 2007
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bach, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 21 - Bwv 65, 81, 83, 190
Robin Blaze, James Gilchrist, Peter Kooij, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Classique - Paru chez BIS le 1 mars 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Florilegium, Elin Manahan Thomas, Robin Blaze
Classique - Paru chez Channel Classics le 8 juin 2010
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Remembering Alfred Deller
Classique - Paru chez Divine Art le 6 mai 2014
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Toivo Tulev: Songs
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Paul Hillier, Robin Blaze
Musique chorale (pour chœur) - Paru chez harmonia mundi le 14 oct. 2008
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Bach: Lutheran Masses, Vol. 1
Purcell Quartet, Susan Gritton, Robin Blaze, Mark Padmore, Peter Harvey
Messes, Passions, Requiems - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mai 1999
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Handel: Duets From the Great English Oratorios
Robin Blaze, Nicholas Kraemer, Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment, Carolyn Sampson
Classique - Paru chez BIS le 1 mars 2006
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Couperin: Magnificat / Lecons De Tenebres
Classique - Paru chez BIS le 25 oct. 2005
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
English Lute Songs: Ayres for Countertenor
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 1 janv. 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Henry & William Lawes: Songs
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 1 janv. 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Byrd: Consort Songs
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 1 mai 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Thomas Campion: Move Now with Measured Sound
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 1 nov. 2001
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Salve Regina: Sacred Music by Monteverdi & His Venetian Followers
Robin Blaze, The Parley Of Instruments, Peter Holman
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 1 mars 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
German 17th-Century Church Music
Robin Blaze, The Parley Of Instruments
Classique - Paru chez Hyperion le 1 avr. 1999
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo