Markus Flaig

Markus Flaig (* 1971 in Horb am Neckar ) is a German singer with a bass-baritone voice .

Life

Markus Flaig studied church music and school music, then singing with Beata Heuer-Christen in Freiburg and with Berthold Possemeyer at the Frankfurt University of Music . He has been working with Carol Meyer-Bruetting since 2006. In 2004 he was the winner of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in the singing category.

For the lieder he works with the pianist Jörg Schweinbenz. He sang the premiere of an orchestral song cycle based on poems by Thomas Bernhard , which Franz F. Kaern composed for him.

Markus Flaig appears regularly with the Frankfurter Kantorei , led by Winfried Toll , in 2001 in Handel's Dixit Dominus in the broadcasting hall of the Hessischer Rundfunk , in 2006 in Bach's B minor mass in the Heiliggeistkirche of the Dominican monastery and in 2010 in Handel's Messiah in the Alte Oper . On April 3, 2009 he sang with the choir in Tel Aviv in a concert on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the city. On this occasion, Mozart's Requiem and Mendelssohn's The First Walpurgis Night were performed in the Mann Auditorium with the Israel Chamber Orchestra .

Flaig sings regularly with the Rheinische Kantorei , directed by Hermann Max . In 2008 they led concert programs in which Bach's short masses were the focus, at the Leipzig Bach Festival in the Nikolaikirche , at the Wartburg Concerts in Eisenach and at the Weserbergland Music Weeks, with Veronika Winter , Henning Voss and Jan Kobow . In 2009 he sang Bach's complete Christmas Oratorio . In 2010 he took over the bass arias in Bach's Johannes Passion in the arrangement of Robert Schumann in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf . At the Rheingau Musik Festival in 2008 he performed in Haydn's Stabat Mater and Mozart's Coronation Mass in Eberbach Monastery .

In 2004 he was the Vox Christi (voice of Christ) in Bach's Johannes Passion , alongside Werner Güra as evangelist , in concerts with the Camerata Vocale Freiburg, directed by Toll at the Freiburg Concert Hall and the Lucerne Culture and Congress Center .

In 2008 he took over the role of Jesus in Hugo Distler's Choral Passion , op. 7, with the Kurt Thomas Chamber Choir, which celebrated Distler's 100th birthday with three concerts in and around Frankfurt.

In 2011 he sang the bass part in Handel's Messiah in St. Martin, Idstein , with Katia Plaschka , Andreas Scholl and Ulrich Cordes . Its "depth anchored at a clear height, reaching into the black" was emphasized.

In February 2015 Flaig sang for the first time as part of the cantatas performed by the JS Bach Foundation under Rudolf Lutz .

Recordings

Flaig recorded solo cantatas by Bach , Telemann and Graupner . With Thomas Hengelbrock he recorded Johann Kaspar Kerll's Missa superba , with Tobias Hiller Bach's B minor Mass , and with Martin Lutz the Bach cantata Du Hirte Israel, hear and the bass arias of the St. Matthew Passion with the Schiersteiner Kantorei and Christoph Prégardien as an evangelist. He recorded Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Hermann Max, Handel's Brockes Passion , HWV 48, with Peter Neumann , and the Markus Passion by Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns with Ralf Popken .

Flaig is involved in a project to record Schubert's polyphonic chants with Sibylla Rubens , Silke Schwarz, Regina Jakobi, Ingeborg Danz , Hildegard Wiedemann, Markus Schäfer , Marcus Ullmann , Thomas E. Bauer , Marcus Schmidl, and the pianist Ulrich Eisenlohr.

In 2014, in collaboration with the pianist Jörg Schweinbenz, a solo CD with songs by Hugo Wolf was released on the Spektral label .

CD

• Giuseppe Peranda : Sacred Music from Dresden. ( Missa in a , Repleti sunt omnes , Accurite gentes , Timor et tremor , Factum est proelium ; Vincenzo Albrici : Sinfonia à 2 ; David Pohle : Sonata à 6. ) Miriam Feuersinger , Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Alex Potter (alto) , Raphael Höhn, Jakob Pilgram (tenor), Markus Flaig (bass), Abendmusiken Basel, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher (organ and direction). Coviello Classics, 2018.

DVD

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Happy time in the new league . Cantata BWV 83. Rudolf Lutz , Orchestra of the JS Bach Foundation , Jan Börner (soprano) Alex Potter (alto), Julius Pfeiffer (tenor), Markus Flaig (bass). Including an introductory workshop and reflection by Cornelia Cazis . Gallus Media, 2016.

Web links

• Literature by and about Markus Flaig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Markus Flaig
• Markus Flaig in recordings by the JS Bach Foundation under Rudolf Lutz (completely online)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Markus Flaig ( English ) Naxos. 2011. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Markus Flaig at Bach Cantatas (English)
3. ^ The concerts since 2000 . Frankfurt Kantorei. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
4. ↑ Chronicle . Rheinische Kantorei. 2011. Archived from the original on May 7, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 17, 2011. 
5. ↑ concert archive . Camerata Vocale Freiburg. 2011. Archived from the original on September 18, 2011. Retrieved on February 12, 2019.
6. ↑ Annual program 2008 . Kurt Thomas Chamber Choir. 2008. Retrieved February 12, 2019.
7. ↑ Doris Kösterke: Sublime inner peace . Wiesbaden courier . September 20, 2011. Archived from the original on March 27, 2012. Retrieved on March 13, 2017.
8. ^ "Delighted time in the new league", BWV 83. Retrieved on February 3, 2016 from the JS Bach Foundation website.
9. ↑ Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828) / Part-Songs ( English ) musicweb-international.com. 2010. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
10. ↑ Product information  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the JS Bach Foundation, accessed on May 16, 2016.