Dorothee Mields
German soprano Dorothee Mields has emerged as a leading figure in the performance of both Baroque and contemporary music, praised by Forbes as "unflappable at any tempo." Mields was born in Gelsenkirchen, in the industrial Ruhr valley, in 1971. Her training was German: at the University of Bremen with Harry van der Kamp and later independently in Stuttgart, where her teacher was Julia Hamari, and she has continued to study with Richetta Manager during her active career. Mields took a position teaching at the Franz Liszt Academy in Weimar in 2001. In the early 2000s her performing and recording career began to develop rapidly.
Mields' recordings have been devoted mostly to Baroque music. She made her debut on CPO with a 2002 release of chamber cantatas by Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, followed two years later by a second volume of those and by a recording of the rare Gellert Oden of C.P.E. Bach. After a four-year hiatus, she began recording for the German labels Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Accent, and Carus, as well as continuing with CPO. For Accent she released O woe! O woe! My canary is dead!, a collection of secular cantatas by Telemann. She has made thematic recordings, delved into other little-known composers, ventured forward to the Classical period with Boccherini's Stabat Mater and even beyond with an album of Chopin songs, sung in Polish. (She has also recorded Purcell in English. In 2018 Mields released Lass Mein Herz, an album of cantatas by Christoph Graupner, on Accent.
Mields has often appeared in innovative chamber music projects such as Lord Nelson at the River Nile (including music by various composers dealing with that military figure) and White as Lilies Was Her Face, setting texts by Heinrich Heine to music by John Dowland. She has performed contemporary music by Gérard Grisey, Pierre Boulez, and others. Since 2016 she has been a voice teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague.
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On Byrd's Wings
Dorothee Mields, Magdalene Harer, Boreas Quartett Bremen, Hathor Consort
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J.S. Bach & Shostakovich: Salvation
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Handel's Tea Time
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Klassiek - Released by deutsche harmonia mundi on 6 nov. 2020
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J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Solo Soprano
Klassiek - Released by Carus on 1 okt. 2015
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MOZART, W.A.: Mass No. 16, "Coronation Mass" / Exsultate jubilate / Vesperae solennes de confessore / Ave verum corpus (Bosch)
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Religieuze vocale muziek - Released by Coviello Classics on 1 jul. 2006
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Heinrich Albert's Pumpkin Hut
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Klassiek - Released by Ramée on 19 mrt. 2021
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Graupner : Lass mein Herz (Cantatas, Overture, Concerto)
Dorothee Mields, Monica Waisman, Florian Deuter, Harmonie universelle
Vocale muziek (wereldlijk en religieus) - Released by Accent on 16 feb. 2018
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Bach: Mass in B minor (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Klassiek - Released by Glossa on 29 mrt. 2010
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Basevi Codex - Music at the Court of Margaret of Austria
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Henry Purcell: Love's Madness
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Henry Purcell: Love Songs
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Luigi Boccherini: Stabat Mater
Dorothee Mields, Miriam Shalinsky, Salagon Quartett
Klassiek - Released by Carus on 1 feb. 2017
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Hoffnung des Wiedersehens (Telemann Arias)
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi on 9 nov. 2012
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Monteverdi: La dolce vita
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Sacred Arias
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi on 20 apr. 2012
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Handel's Tea Time
Dorothee Mields, Die Freitagsakademie
Klassiek - Released by deutsche harmonia mundi on 6 nov. 2020
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Weihnachten im Bremer Dom
Klassiek - Released by CPO on 1 jan. 2006
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Telemann: Cantatas & Fantasies for Viola da gamba
Dorothee Mields, Hanna Zumsande, Klaus Mertens, Hamburger Ratsmusik, Simone Eckert
Klassiek - Released by CPO on 13 aug. 2021
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Listen to Our Cry
Reinhold Friedrich, Eriko Takezawa, Dorothee Mields, Giya Kancheli, Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt, Ruben Gazarian
Klassiek - Released by Ars Produktion on 2 apr. 2021
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Inspired by Song
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Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi on 21 mrt. 2014
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Kantaten I
Klassiek - Released by Carus on 1 okt. 2010
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