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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Haydn: Anne Hunter's Salon, Scottish Folk Songs, & English Canzonettas
Classical - Released by CPO on 6 May 2014
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Seelen-Music
Hamburger Ratsmusik, Dorothee Mields, Simone Eckert
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Schütz: Schwanengesang
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Bach, J.S.: Kantaten für Solo-Sopran
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HANDEL: Ode for St. Cecilia s Day
Dorothee Mields, Mark Wilde, Alsfelder Vocal Ensemble, Concerto Polacco, Wolfgang Helbich
Classical - Released by Naxos on 1 Mar 2004
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Composed to the Soul
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Classical - Released by CPO on 5 Feb 2016
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Bach: Cantatas, BWV 126 & 79 and Mass in G Major, BWV 236
Gaechinger Cantorey, Benedikt Kristjánsson, Benno Schachtner, Tobias Berndt, Dorothee Mields, Hans-Christoph Rademann
Classical - Released by Carus on 1 Apr 2017
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Boccherini: Stabat mater, G. 532
Classical - Released by Carus on 1 Feb 2017
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Johann Philipp Krieger: Musicalischer Seelen-Frieden. Geistliche Konzerte
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Classical - Released by Carus on 26 Mar 2013
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Inspired by Song
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Classical - Released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi on 21 Mar 2014
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Stölzel: German Chamber Cantatas, Vol. 2
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Classical - Released by CPO on 1 Jan 2004
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Die Zeit
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Festive Hanseatic Music
Weser-Renaissance, Bremen, Dorothee Mields, Gerd Türk, Manfred Cordes, Harry Geraerts
Classical - Released by CPO on 1 Jan 2002
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C.P.E. Bach: Geistliche Oden und Lieder, Wq. 194, H. 686
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Stolzel: German Chamber Cantatas, Vol. 1
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Georg Philipp Telemann: Perpetuum mobile
Dorothee Mields, Benoit Haller, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Han Tol
Classical - Released by Carus on 1 Sep 2004
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IV. Transporting, Joy, tormenting fears (Aria)
Classical - Released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi on 16 Oct 2020
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Harald Weiss: Requiem (Schwarz vor Augen und es ward Licht!)
Dorothee Mields, Andreas Karasiak, Knabenchor Hannover, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Jorg Breiding
Classical - Released by Rondeau Production on 1 Oct 2010
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English Songs, HWV 228: No.4, Bacchus
Classical - Released by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi on 30 Oct 2020
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