Stephan MacLeod
Bass-baritone Stephan MacLeod has developed a second career as a conductor, most often of the ensemble he founded, Gli Angeli Genève. Both as a singer and as a conductor, he is a specialist in Baroque oratorio.
MacLeod was born in 1971 in Geneva, Switzerland. In that city, he studied violin and piano at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève and also began voice lessons. Accepted into the Musikhochschule Köln in Germany, he studied with bass Kurt Moll and became interested in the historical performance movement, collaborating with the Musica Antiqua Köln and its conductor, Reinhard Goebel. MacLeod went on for further vocal studies with Gary Magby in Lausanne, Switzerland. He spent five years as first bass with the Huelgas Ensemble early music group in Belgium and worked under various leading historically oriented conductors, including Jordi Savall, Philippe Herreweghe, and Gustav Leonhardt. MacLeod made his recording debut in 1994 on the album Buxtehude: 6 Cantatas by the Anima Eterna Orchestra and the Collegium Vocale enemble. He appeared on several volumes in the complete series of Bach cantatas recorded by the Bach Collegium Japan and conductor Masaaki Suzuki as both soloist and chorister.
In 2005, in Geneva, MacLeod founded the vocal-instrumental ensemble Gli Angeli Genève. He has continued to perform as a singer, sometimes, unusually, leading the ensemble while singing. The group soon began recording and was signed to the major Sony Classical label, releasing the album Telemann, Buxtehude, Bach: German Baroque Cantatas in 2008. MacLeod has often appeared in oratorios but has also appeared in opera. He has led Gli Angeli Genève in such unusual works as C.P.E. Bach's oratorio Die Israeliten in der Wüste at the Festival of Early Music in Utrecht during the 2022-2023 season. In all, as a singer and conductor, MacLeod has appeared on some 75 albums. His recording of Bach's Mass in B minor, BWV 232, with Gli Angeli Genève had the unusual configuration of ten singers and 27 instrumentalists. MacLeod released several albums on the Claves label in the early 2020s, moving to Aparté for the 2023 release Josquin: Malheur me bat.
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Mozart: Concertos for flute and orchestra
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Musica concertante - Pubblicato da Claves Records il 7 ott 2022
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Bach : h-Moll Messe, BWV 232
Stephan MacLeod, Gli Angeli Genève
Classica - Pubblicato da Claves Records il 26 mar 2021
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J.S. Bach: Johannes-Passion, BWV 245
Gli Angeli Genève, Stephan MacLeod, Werner Güra
Classica - Pubblicato da Claves Records il 7 apr 2023
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Bach : Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244
Stephan MacLeod, Werner Güra, Gli Angeli Genève
Classica - Pubblicato da Claves Records il 27 mar 2020
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Leçons de ténèbres
Stephan MacLeod, Arte dei Suonatori, Alexis Kossenko
Classica - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 12 giu 2012
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J.S. Bach: Cantatas for Bass BWV 56-82-158-203
Gli Angeli Genève, Stephan MacLeod
Classica - Pubblicato da Claves Records il 29 apr 2022
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Ich habe genug, BWV 82: I. Aria. "Ich habe genug"
Stephan MacLeod, Gli Angeli Genève
Classica - Pubblicato da Claves Records il 18 mar 2022
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Bach: Cantates BWV 32, 49 and 57 - Concerto in Dialogo
Stephan MacLeod, Salomé Haller, Francois Saint-Yves, Les Folies Françoises
Classica - Pubblicato da Cypres il 31 ott 2007
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17th Century Sacred Music in Wrocław
Stephan MacLeod, Gli Angeli Genève, Wrocklaw Baroque Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Claves Records il 4 mag 2018
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Monteverdi: Scherzi musicali
Maria Cristina Kiehr, Stephan MacLeod, Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes
Classica - Pubblicato da harmonia mundi il 15 ago 2007
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Neapolitan Christmas
Roberta Mameli, Ursula Eittinger, Andreas Post, Stephan MacLeod, Orchester der Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens
Classica - Pubblicato da CPO il 1 nov 2011
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Les Surprises de l'Amour, transcriptions de Monsieur Hesse
Monique Zanetti, Stephan MacLeod, Ensemble A Deux Violes Esgales
Classica - Pubblicato da Alpha Classics il 1 feb 2011
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Johannes-Passion BWV 245: 1. Chorus "Herr, unser Herrscher"
Gli Angeli Genève, Stephan MacLeod
Classica - Pubblicato da Claves Records il 24 mar 2023
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Concerto for Flute and Harp in C Major, K. 299: II. Andantino
Gli Angeli Genève, Alexis Kossenko, Stephan MacLeod
Musica concertante - Pubblicato da Claves Records il 15 set 2022
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Utendal: Fröliche neue teutsche und frantzösiche Lieder
Kathelijne Van Laethem, Stephan MacLeod, Romanesque, Philippe Malfeyt
Classica - Pubblicato da Ricercar il 1 gen 2003
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Monteverdi: Scherzi musicali
Maria Cristina Kiehr, Stephan MacLeod, Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes
Classica - Pubblicato da harmonia mundi il 15 ago 2007
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Mezzo Mozart
Marina Viotti, Gli Angeli Genève, Stephan MacLeod
Opera - Sarà pubblicato il 7 giu 2024 su Aparté
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