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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Discografia
15 álbum(ns) • Ordenado por Mais vendidos
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Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra
Munich Radio Orchestra, Benjamin Appl, Oscar Jockel
Classical - Lançado por BR-Klassik em 6 de out. de 2023
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Forbidden Fruit
Classical - Lançado por Alpha Classics em 23 de jun. de 2023
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Hans Sommer: Orchestral Songs
Benjamin Appl, Mojca Erdmann, Anke Vondung, Mauro Peter, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Guillermo Garcia Calvo
Classical - Lançado por PentaTone em 4 de nov. de 2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert: Winterreise
Classical - Lançado por Alpha Classics em 11 de fev. de 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Wolf: Orchesterlieder & Penthesilea
Benjamin Appl, Jenaer Philharmonie, Simon Gaudenz
Classical - Lançado por CPO em 6 de mai. de 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Schubert - Wigmore Hall Live
Lieder (German) - Lançado por Wigmore Hall Live em 29 de abr. de 2016
Gramophone Editor's ChoiceQualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Die Winterreise, D. 911: I. Gute Nacht
Classical - Lançado por Alpha Classics em 17 de dez. de 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bach
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Lançado por Sony Classical - Sony Music em 7 de set. de 2018
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Heimat (Schubert, Wolf, Brahms, Reger, Grieg, Britten...)
Art Songs, Mélodies & Lieder - Lançado por Sony Music Classical Local em 10 de mar. de 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
Classical - Lançado por haenssler CLASSIC em 19 de jun. de 2020
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Wachet! betet! betet! wachet!, BWV 70: X. Seligster Erquickungstag
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical - Sony Music em 10 de ago. de 2018
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Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 100: IV. Er ist mein Licht, mein Leben
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical - Sony Music em 24 de ago. de 2018
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Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 7
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 30 de mar. de 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194: III. Was des Höchsten Glanz erfüllt
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical - Sony Music em 27 de jul. de 2018
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Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 7
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 30 de mar. de 2018
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo