Charles Brett (Counter-tenor)

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Charles Brett (Counter-tenor)
Born: October 27, 1941 - Maidenhead, England
Charles (Michael) Brett formed, with Paul Esswood and James Bowman, the Big Three of the voice in the immediate post-Deller generation. A King's College, Cambridge choral scholar with a voice that's not very powerful, nor very pretty, but utterly secure and reliable. Recommends a dry sherry before concerts "to loosen the vocal cords". Charles Brett co-founded the Amaryllis Consort in 1983 and he has been its director since then. Charles Brett was the alto soloist on the famous Roy Goodman recording of the Allegri Miserere; other recordings include the J.S. Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243) with John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir, to which he contributes a touching Esurientes and moving Et misericordia eius. His recordings ionclude also Purcell’s Fairy Queen (under Benjamin Britten) and birthday odes, J.S. Bach’s B minor Mass (BWV 232) and cantatas under Philippe Herreeweghe, and several Georg Frideric Handel oratorios.

Source: Countertenors Website Contributed by Aryeh Oron (May 2001)
Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works
Conductor	As	Works
John Eliot Gardiner	Alto	BWV 243
Philippe Herreweghe	Alto	BWV 39, BWV 78, BWV 93, BWV 198, BWV 232
Hilliard Ensemble	Alto	BWV 225-230
Johan van der Meer	Alto	BWV 245
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