Christoph Pregardien (Tenor)

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Christoph Prégardien (Tenor)
Born: January 18, 1956 - Limburg an der Lahn, Germany
The German tenor, Christoph Prégardien, who is widely regarded as among the foremost lyric tenors, began his career in music with the Limburg Cathedral Choir. He studied voice with Martin Gründler at the Frankfurt College of Music (garduated in 1983), and later took lessons with Carla Castellani in Milan, with Karlheinz Jarius in Frankfurt and Alois Treml in Stuttgart. In 1978 he won the Federal Republic of Germany vocal competition in Berlin. Christoph Prégardien sang opera in Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Antwerp, Karlsruhe, Ghent, and other European cities. As a concert singer Christoph Prégardien regularly collaborates with such well-known conductors as Frans Brüggen, John Eliot Gardiner, Michael Gielen, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Philippe Herreweghe, Christopher Hogwood, René Jacobs, Ton Koopman, Sigiswald Kuijken, Gustav Leonhardt and Helmuth Rilling. His repertoire includes the great oratorios and passions of the Baroque, the Classical and the Romantic periods, but he also sings works by 17^th century composers (e.g. Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Purcell) and by 20^th century composers (Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, Killmayer, Rihm). Christoph Prégardien’s opera engagements (Ulisse, Tamino, Don Ottavio, Almaviva and Fenton) have taken him to Frankfurt and Stuttgart, and farther afield to Cairo, Montpellier, Tokyo and Parma. After the resounding success of his first four records of Lieder (he studied at the Frankfurter Musikhochschule in the Lied Class with Hartmut Höll), Christoph Prégardien has made further CD’s with songs by Schubert and Schumann, he has recorded J.S. Bach’s major Passions and Oratorios, Georg Frideric Handel’s Messiah, the Mozart Requiem, Haydn’s Creation and many other works.

Source: Mostly from liner notes to Capriccio CD 60046-2 (Matthäus-Passion, conducted by Hermann Max, 1996) Contributed by Aryeh Oron (March 2001)
Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works
Conductor	As	Works
Frieder Bernius	Tenor	BWV 206, BWV 207a
Georg Christoph Biller	Tenor	BWV 248
Frans Brüggen	Tenor	BWV 245
Christophe Coin	Tenor	BWV 6, BWV 41, BWV 85, BWV 115, BWV 175, BWV 180, BWV 183
Michel Corboz	Tenor	BWV 245
Marcus Creed	Tenor	BWV 244
Diego Fasolis	Tenor	BWV 232
Michael Gielen	Tenor	BWV 10, BWV 243
Reinhard Goebel	Tenor	BWV 182 (Radio broadcast)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt	Tenor	BWV 244
Philippe Herreweghe	Tenor	BWV 11, BWV 36, BWV 43, BWV 44, BWV 61, BWV 62, BWV 232, BWV 233-236
René Jacobs	Tenor	BWV 205, BWV 232
Ton Koopman	Tenor	BWV 5, BWV 7, BWV 8, BWV 10, BWV 12, BWV 17, BWV 18, BWV 26, BWV 30a, BWV 37, BWV 41, BWV 43, BWV 45, BWV 48, BWV 55, BWV 61, BWV 66, BWV 70, BWV 78, BWV 86, BWV 88, BWV 91, BWV 94, BWV 98, BWV 99, BWV 107, BWV 111, BWV 112, BWV 113, BWV 114, BWV 115, BWV 116, BWV 121, BWV 124, BWV 127, BWV 132, BWV 135, BWV 137, BWV 138, BWV 139, BWV 145, BWV 149, BWV 151, BWV 153, BWV 154, BWV 164, BWV 166, BWV 168, BWV 171, BWV 172, BWV 174, BWV 175, BWV 177, BWV 178, BWV 182, BWV 194, BWV 205, BWV 206, BWV 207a, BWV 213 BWV 244, BWV 247, BWV 248, Sacred Songs BWV 439-507, Quodlibet BWV 524 DVD: BWV 247
Sigiswald Kuijken	Tenor	BWV 21, BWV 243, BWV 245, BWV 248
Gustav Leonhardt	Tenor	BWV 11, BWV 201, BWV 205, BWV 211, BWV 213, BWV 214, BWV 244, BWV 249
Martin Lutz	Tenor	BWV 244, BWV 245
Gerald A. Manig	Tenor	BWV 232
Hermann Max	Tenor	BWV 244, BWV 245
Erwin Ortner	Tenor	BWV 232
Ralf Otto	Tenor	BWV 248
Helmuth Rilling	Tenor	BWV 34a, BWV 120a, BWV 235, BWV 236, BWV 243a, BWV 248/1,3 (4^th), Chorales & Sacred Songs
Jörg Straube	Tenor	BWV 232
Links to other Sites
Website of Christoph Prégardien Christoph Prégardien (Lotte Lehmann Foundation) Pregardien - 27-6-1998			Christoph Pregardien (Rockefeler) Christoph Pregardien Andreas Staier (Musikverein) [German] Events at McCain: Christoph Prégardien

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