René Jacobs
René Jacobs began his career as a countertenor and quickly earned the reputation as one of the finest of his time. He gradually turned to conducting and, since the turn of the new century, has rarely sung in concert. As a countertenor, Jacobs championed a string of forgotten Baroque composers on his recordings: Antonio Cesti, Sigismondo d'India, and Luca Marenzio, to name a few, but he also sang, in both concert and opera, many standards by Monteverdi, J.S. Bach, and Handel, among others. As a conductor, he has led many performances of sacred music by Bach and Buxtehude and has focused heavily on the operas of Monteverdi, Handel, and Mozart. He has conducted purely orchestral music as well, notably symphonies by Haydn and Mozart. In 2021, Jacobs issued a recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, conducting the Freiburger Barockorchester and Berlin RIAS Kammerkor.
Jacobs was born in Ghent, Belgium, on October 30, 1946. As a child, he was a chorister at St. Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent. After obtaining a degree in philology from Ghent University, he studied voice with Louis Devos and Lucie Frateur. Later, he took master classes with countertenor Alfred Deller. Already active on the concert stage, Jacobs made his operatic debut in Amsterdam in 1974, singing Clerio in Francesco Cavalli's Erismena. In 1977, Jacobs founded Concerto Vocale, an ensemble he would appear with in many concerts, operatic productions, and recordings. By the 1980s, Jacobs was steeped in conducting commitments, though he continued to sing, often in the same concerts. He was also editing performing editions of operas, as he famously did for the 1989 performance he led at the Opera de Montpellier of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. In the 1990s, Jacobs established his credentials as one of the finest conductors on record of Mozart's operas. His 1998 Così fan tutte, for Harmonia Mundi, became one of the label's best-selling recordings, but it wasn't just his Mozart that drew attention: Jacobs' performances of Haydn's Il mondo della luna at the 2001 Innsbruck Early Music Festival and at the Staatsoper unter den Linden the following year drew lavish critical praise. Jacobs served as the artistic director of the Innsbruck Early Music Festival from 1996 until 2009.
He hasn't slowed down his performing and recording pace in the 21st century, and his more than 200 releases are available on a variety of labels, including Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, and Berlin Classics, among others. Jacobs has earned many awards in his career, including several Cannes Classical Awards (one for his recording of Handel's Rinaldo in 2004), the prestigious Diapason d'Or more than ten times (one for his recording of Haydn's The Seasons in 2005), and a Grammy Award in 2005 for his recording of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. In 2021, he led the Freiburger Barockorchester and Berlin RIAS Kammerkor in a recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, on Harmonia Mundi.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphonies n°38 "Prague" & n°41 "Jupiter" (René Jacobs)
Symphonic Music - Lançado por harmonia mundi em 15 de ago. de 2007
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Vivaldi: Cantate Italiane / Bononcini: Cantate Pastorali
René Jacobs, Sigiswald Kuijken, Lucy Van Dael, Wieland Kuijken, Alan Curtis, Robert Kohnen
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon (DG) em 1 de jan. de 1992
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Easter
René Jacobs, Alfred Deller and Collegium Vocale Gent
Classical - Lançado por harmonia mundi em 23 de mar. de 2015
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Classical - Lançado por harmonia mundi em 22 de ago. de 1995
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Monteverdi: Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi (Libro VIII)
Classical - Lançado por harmonia mundi em 31 de jul. de 2007
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Johann Sebastian Bach : Secular Cantatas, BWV 201, 205 & 213
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Andreas Scholl, René Jacobs and RIAS Kammerchor
Cantatas (secular) - Lançado por harmonia mundi em 26 de abr. de 1996
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Zelenka: Magnificat & Lamenti
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Harmonia Mundi em 1 de jan. de 1987
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René Jacobs by himself
Classical - Lançado por harmonia mundi em 31 de jul. de 2007
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Monteverdi: Motetti
Classical - Lançado por harmonia mundi em 1 de jan. de 1980
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Handel: Flavio
Classical - Lançado por harmonia mundi em 1 de jan. de 1992
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Handel : Oratorios (Saul, Messiah)
Sacred Oratorios - Lançado por harmonia mundi em 16 de out. de 2008
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Orfeo ed Euridice (Intégrale)
Marjanne Kweksilber, René Jacobs, Magdalena Falewicz, Collegium Vocale Gent, Petite Bande, La, Sigiswald Kuijken
Opera - Lançado por Accent em 1 de jan. de 2000
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Blow: Venus & Adonis
Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment, René Jacobs
Opera - Lançado por harmonia mundi em 27 de mar. de 2008
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Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
Sacred Vocal Music - Lançado por Berlin Classics em 22 de mar. de 2006
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Zelenka: Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetas
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical - Sony Music em 1 de abr. de 1991
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Bach: Cantatas, BWV 161, 170 & 177
René Jacobs, Linde Consort, Hans-Martin Linde
Classical - Lançado por Warner Classics em 3 de jul. de 2006
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Telemann : Orpheus
René Jacobs and Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Full Operas - Lançado por harmonia mundi em 30 de jan. de 1998
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DHM Splendeurs: Gluck: Les Chinoises
Classical - Lançado por Sony Classical - Sony Music em 22 de mar. de 1986
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Bach: Sacred Arias
Classical - Lançado por Deutsche Harmonia Mundi em 20 de jan. de 2012
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Alessandro Scarlatti : Passio secundum Ioannem (St. John Passion / Passion selon saint Jean)
Sacred Oratorios - Lançado por Deutsche Harmonia Mundi em 20 de jan. de 1982
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Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres du Mercredy Sainct
Classical - Lançado por harmonia mundi em 20 de set. de 1986
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