Charles Daniels
Charles Daniels is an English solo and ensemble singer specializing in early and contemporary music. He became a chorister in the famous Choir of King's College, Cambridge. Admission to that position for boy singers is by competitive audition and carries with it the benefit of attendance at the college's prep school, thorough musical and vocal training, and the duty of singing daily services during the school term and in the choir's concerts and tours. Veterans of this position are performers with wide knowledge of musical style and good vocal production.
Daniels attended Winchester College and, when he was ready for university, once again turned to King's College, having matured to a tenor voice. After an equally competitive audition he earned the position of choral scholar there. The duties and benefits were much the same; he became a member of the chorus and a student at Cambridge University on a full scholarship. The subjects of his joint degree were natural sciences and music.
After graduation he entered the Royal College of Music in London on a Foundation Scholarship, where he studied with Edward Brooks. He entered two major British voice competitions: the Great Grimsby International Competition for singers and the 1986 GKN English Song Award. He won major awards in both, including the Hubert Parry Prize for his choice of program.
Daniels has sung in many countries of Europe and in Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada as a solo artist. The big works in his repertory are Baroque choral masterpieces such as Bach cantatas, masses, and passions and Handel oratorios. These include Handel's The Triumph of Time and Truth, Judas Maccabaeus, Solomon, and Acis and Galatea, and regular appearances as the Evangelist in Bach's St. Matthew and St. John Passions.
He has sung with modern instrument organizations such as the RTE Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and the Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra. He also has worked with period instrument groups including the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, the Academy of Ancient Music, the King's Consort, and Les Arts Florissants. With the last-named group he toured in Lully's opera Atys to the Montpelier Festival, Caen, Madrid, the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and New York. He has also appeared in the Halle Handel Festival, the Flanders Festival in Bruges, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage 2000.
Other Baroque music in his credits includes Monteverdi's Vespers (which he sang with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging in December 2000), Purcell's Dioclesian (at the Barbican Centre in London with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music), Purcell's The Fairy Queen, Rameau's La guirlande, and Charpentier's Vêpres aux Jésuites. He has recorded the role of Peachum in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, several Purcell discs for Hyperion records, The Fairy Queen, Bach's Easter Oratorio, and the Charpentier Vespers already mentioned. He has also recorded Haydn's St. Cecilia Mass. Working with the Hilliard Ensemble, he has participated in a recording with them on the ECM label of music of Perotin.
Other non-Baroque music Daniels has performed includes Schubert's Mass in E flat, Mendelssohn's Elijah, and Puccini's Missa di Gloria, as well as a performance before Pope John Paul II of Wojciech Kilar's Missa Pro Pace. He appeared on worldwide television as part of the BBC's Millennium Live 2000 singing in an all-Handel program with James O'Donnell and the Academy of Ancient Music at Westminster Abbey.
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Discography
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Buxtehude: Sacred Cantatas, Vol. 2
Purcell Quartet, Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey
Religieuze cantates - Released by Chandos on 1 aug. 2005
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Bach: Early Cantatas, Vol. 1
Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey, Purcell Quartet
Religieuze cantates - Released by Chandos on 1 feb. 2005
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Machaut: Chansons
Robert Harre-Jones, Charles Daniels, Angus Smith, Don Greig, Orlando Consort
Klassiek - Released by Archiv Produktion on 12 jan. 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Cantates pour l'Épiphanie: BWV 72, 81, 155 & 156
Montreal Baroque, Eric Milnes, Monika Mauch, Franziska Gottwald, Charles Daniels, Harry Van Der Kamp
Klassiek - Released by ATMA Classique on 1 nov. 2013
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bach, J.S.: Cantates Saint-Jean Baptiste Vol. 1 - BWV 7, BWV 30, BWV 167
Montreal Baroque, Eric Milnes, Suzie Leblanc, Daniel Taylor, Charles Daniels, Stephan Mac Leod
Klassiek - Released by ATMA Classique on 1 jun. 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Harry Our King
Charles Daniels, Katharina Bäuml, Capella de la Torre
Divers - Released by Carpe Diem Records Berlin on 4 sep. 2012
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bach, J.S.: Cantates de la Nativité Vol. 4 BWV 61, BWV 122, BWV 123, BWV 182
Montreal Baroque, Eric Milnes, Monika Mauch, Matthew White, Charles Daniels, Harry Van Der Kamp
Klassiek - Released by ATMA Classique on 1 okt. 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bach, J.S.: Cantates Marie De Nazareth Vol. 3 BWV 1, 82, 147
Montreal Baroque, Eric Milnes, Monika Mauch, Matthew White, Charles Daniels, Stephan Mac Leod
Klassiek - Released by ATMA Classique on 5 nov. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Airs de cour
Charles Daniels, Jacob Heringman, Catherine King
Klassiek - Released by Linn Records on 1 mrt. 1999
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Early Cantatas, Vol. 3
Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels, Peter Harvey, Purcell Quartet
Religieuze cantates - Released by Chandos on 1 sep. 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Togni: Responsio
Jeff Reilly, Suzie Leblanc, Andrea Ludwig, Charles Daniels, John Potter
Klassiek - Released by ATMA Classique on 1 sep. 2015
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Orfeo Fantasia
Montreal Baroque, Charles Daniels, Skip Sempé, Sylvain Bergeron, Nigel North
Klassiek - Released by ATMA Classique on 1 feb. 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Jackson: Songs, Canzonets, and a Sonata
Klassiek - Released by Toccata Classics on 16 feb. 2018
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Quatuor à cordes n°2 - Amoretti
Maggini Quartet, Charles Daniels, Martin Roscoe
Kamermuziek - Released by Naxos on 2 nov. 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
St John Passion
Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, Peter Seymour, Charles Daniels, Stephen Varcoe, Stefan Loges
Klassiek - Released by Signum Records on 1 sep. 2010
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Daniels, Charles / North, Nigel: Lute Songs
Klassiek - Released by ATMA Classique on 1 jun. 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Heracleitus
Charles Daniels, Michael Dussek, Bridge String Quartet
Klassiek - Released by EM Records on 27 mei 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bach: Cantates pour l'Épiphanie: BWV 72, 81, 155 & 156
Montreal Baroque, Eric Milnes, Monika Mauch, Franziska Gottwald, Charles Daniels, Harry Van Der Kamp
Klassiek - Released by ATMA Classique on 1 nov. 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ludwig Senfl: Im Maien
Liederen - Released by harmonia mundi on 29 dec. 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Togni: Responsio
Jeff Reilly, Suzie Leblanc, Andrea Ludwig, Charles Daniels, John Potter
Klassiek - Released by ATMA Classique on 1 sep. 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo