Max van Egmond

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the Dutch general see Maximilian von Egmond .

Max van Egmond, June 2007

Max van Egmond (born February 1, 1936 in Semarang ) is a Dutch singer with bass-baritone and bass voices . He is known for singing oratorios and lieder, especially in works by Johann Sebastian Bach .

Life

Max van Egmond studied singing in Hilversum with Tine van Willingen de Lorme. At the age of 18 he became a member of the Nederlandse Bachvereniging (Dutch Bach Society).

From 1965 he participated in the complete recordings of all of Bach's works by Gustav Leonhardt , Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Frans Brüggen . He recorded the St. Matthew Passion first in 1969 with Claudio Abbado and in 1970 with Harnoncourt, where he sang the bass arias. In 1973 he recorded the words of Christ with Johan van der Meer , 1977 with Charles de Wolff , 1989 with Gustav Leonhardt. In the St. John Passion he recorded the words of Christ in 1965 with Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus Wien , 1979 with van der Meer, 1986 with de Wolff, and in 1987 the arias with Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande .

He was involved in Harnoncourt's recordings of Monteverdi's operas, L'Orfeo in 1968 , and the first complete recording of Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria in 1971 . He has also appeared in more recent operas such as premieres at De Nederlandse Opera , 1962 Het Zwarte Blondje by Jurriaan Andriessens , 1963 Three's Company by Antony Hopkins .

In 1969 he was the soloist in Reger's Hebbel Requiem in concerts that were recorded live in the Berlin Philharmonie , with the Junge Kantorei and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra , conducted by Joachim Carlos Martini . In 1998 he sang the words of Christ in Bach's St. Matthew Passion in St. Martin, Idstein , with Elisabeth Scholl and Andreas Scholl .

Max van Egmond sang romantic songs , among others by Schubert, Schumann and Fauré, accompanied on historical instruments . Songs by Gabriel Fauré were accompanied by Jos van Immerseel on an Erard piano from 1897. Schubert's Winterreise was accompanied by Penelope Crawford on a fortepiano by Conrad Graf from 1835.

Max van Egmond taught at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam from 1980 to 1995. He held numerous master classes, including annually in Mateus , Portugal, and for 32 years (from 1978 to 2009) at the Baroque Performance Institute in Oberlin (Ohio) and then until 2018 every summer at the Academy of American Bach Soloists in San Francisco . In 2018, Max van Egmond declared his official career over, but added that he would continue to occasionally take part in musical activities. Harry van der Kamp is one of his students .

Recordings

• St Matthew passion , Peter Schreier , Hermann Prey , Teresa Żylis-Gara , Margarita Lilova , Coro di Voci Bianche dell'Oratorio dell'Immacolata di Bergamo, Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano della RAI, Claudio Abbado , Dino Classics 1969
• BACH, JS: Matthäus-Passion , Kurt Equiluz , Karl Ridderbusch , Soprano Soloists of the Vienna Boys' Choir , James Bowman , Tom Sutcliff , Paul Esswood , Nigel Rogers , Michael Schopper , Regensburger Domspatzen , Choir of King's College, Cambridge , Concentus Musicus Vienna , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Teldec 1970
• Motetti ed arie a basso solo , Monteverdi : Laudate Dominum. Carissimi : O vulnera doloris. Frescobaldi : Maddalena alla croce. Francesca Caccini : O che nuovo stupor. Bassani : Nascere, dive puellule. Cazzati : Factum est praelium magnum. Giovanni Battista Brevi : Catenae terrenae. Cazzati: In Calvaria group. Benedetto Marcello : Dal tribunal augusto. Ricercar Consort . Ricercar. 1988.
• Cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach for bass solo: I would like to carry the cross stick & I've had enough , Frans Brüggen , SONY 1977
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach : The Last Sorrows of the Redeemer , Barbara Schlick , Greta de Reyghere , Catherine Patriasz , Christoph Prégardien , La Petite Bande , Collegium Vocale Gent , Sigiswald Kuijken , SONY
• Songs by Gabriel Fauré , Jos van Immerseel , piano, Channel Classics 1995
• Franz Schubert: Schwanengesang , Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe , Kenneth Slowik , Fortepiano, Musica Omnia 2001
• Schubert: Winterreise , Penelope Crawford , Fortepiano, Musica Omnia 2006
• Schubert: The beautiful miller's wife , Penelope Crawford, Fortepiano, Musica Omnia 2006
• Bach: Missae breves , Peter Watchorn , organ, Publick Musick , Thomas Folan , Musica Omnia 2006

Web links

• Works by Max van Egmond in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Max van Egmond
• Julie Muller: Max van Egmond. Baritones . (PDF) Biography with discography (English, 405 pages)
• Max van Egmond Video by the American Bach Soloists (2018): Max van Egmond reports on his life at the age of 82 (YouTube, 6:31 min.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Max van Egmond ( en ) allmusic.com. 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
2. ↑ Max van Egmond (bass-baritone) with Bach Cantatas (English)
3. ↑ St. Matthew passion (# 44), Bach: Matthäus-Passion (# 47) in Bach Cantatas (English)
4. ↑ Low means . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1971 ( online ).
5. ↑ JS Bach: St. Matthew Passion (# 51, # 54) with Bach Cantatas (English)
6. ↑ JS Bach: St. Matthew Passion (# 71) by Bach Cantatas (English)
7. ↑ Monteverdi: L'orfeo / Harnoncourt, Hansmann, Berberian ( s ) Naxos. 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
8. ↑ Monteverdi: Il Ritorno D'ulisse In Patria / Harnoncourt ( en ) Naxos. 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
9. ↑ shots junge-kantorei.de, see Max Reger, choral pieces (1969) .
10. ↑ St. Matthew Passion . st-martin-idstein.de. 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2010.
11. ^ ^{A b} Egmond, Max van - baritone / Immerseel, Jos van - piano Erard 1897–8295 Faure songs . channelclassics.com. 2010. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 10, 2010. 
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Franz Schubert . musicaomnia.org. 2010. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 10, 2010. 
13. ↑ Julie Muller: Max van Egmond. Baritones . (PDF) Biography (English), p. 351.
14. ↑ Max van Egmond Video by the American Bach Soloists (2018), on Max van Egmond's participation in the San Francisco Summer Academy see 3:41 to 6:11.
15. ↑ Max van Egmond Video of the American Bach Soloists (2018), for the end of his official career see 5:55 to 6:31.