The tenor Andreas Post is particularly valued for his beautiful and haunting interpretations of the great evangelist roles by Johann Sebastian Bach.
His concert activities regularly take him abroad, especially to France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, England, Italy, Scandinavia as well as Israel, Macedonia, South Africa and Singapore. He has worked with conductors including Helmuth Rilling, Philippe Herreweghe, Ludger Rémy, Jos van Veldhoven, Enoch zu Guttenberg, Jan Willem de Vriend, Michael Hofstetter, Wolfgang Katschner and Hansjörg Albrecht as well as with ensembles such as Concerto con Anima, Les Amis de Philippe, Combattimento Consort Amsterdam, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Musica Alta Ripa, Collegium Vocale Gent, Nederlandse Bachvereniging. Lautten Compagney Berlin and Orchester der Klangverwaltung.
The tenor has recorded several CDs, including "Die Schöne Müllerin" by Franz Schubert and his solo CD entitled "Mein Alles in Allem" with arias by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, G.Ph. Telemann and R. Keizer.
Concert engagements 2016 - 2018 included: Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" with Enoch zu Guttenberg at the Philharmonie am Gasteig in Munich, a CD production of Bach's "St. John Passion" (evangelist and arias) with the Stuttgart Hymnus Boys' Choir, Schumann songs and duets with the soprano Mojca Erdmann at the Beethovenhaus Bonn and at the VOICES festival, various concerts with the Bachkoor Holland and the Bach-Verein Köln (Cologne) under Thomas Neuhoff (partly WDR live broadcast), Bach cantatas at the famous Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Bach's "St. John Passion" with the Elbipolis baroque orchestra, concerts with the Mainz Bach Choir and the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken, the Mozart Requiem at the Mozart Festival Würzburg with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Berlin Konzerthaus with the Thomanerchor (St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig) and the noted Berlin Konzerthausorchester.
2019: concerts under Andreas Spering, the "St Matthew Passion" with the Münchener Bach-Chor under Hansjörg Albrecht at the Philharmonie am Gasteig in Munich, Telemann's "St Luke Passion 1744" with the Dresden Chamber Choir and the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, and many other concerts. 2020: CD production "Christmas Oratorio" (J. S. Bach) with the Stuttgart Hymnus Chorknaben, a Beethoven-Schubert programme under Paul Mc Creesh, Mozart's Requiem with Hansjörg Albrecht, Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" with Jos van Immerseel (cancelled, postponed to 2022), cantatas at the Bachfest Leipzig (cancelled).....Plans for 2020/21 included: Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the B minor Mass at the Berlin Philharmonie and a tour with W. Sauseng's "St John Passion" and Bach's "St Matthew Passion" under Rob Vermeulen through the Netherlands and to Vienna, which was postponed to 2022/23. In 2023 he performed repeatedly at the Isarphilharmonie in J.S. Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Münchener Bach-Chor under Hansjörg Albrecht, where he was invited again for 2024. Also under Hansjörg Albrecht, he can be heard in Handel's “Saul” at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg in 2023. In the same year he will give a guest performance of Bach's “Christmas Oratorio” in the renowned Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. With the Stuttgart Hymnus Chorknaben he will return to the Stuttgart Liederhalle in 2023 with Haydn's “Creation”, to name but a few stops.
On the opera stage, he performed Astromonte in the rediscovered opera "The Philosopher's Stone" by Mozart and other composers, “Belsazar” in Amsterdam in a co-production with the Festival Düsseldorfer Altstadt Herbst, Ottone in Monteverdi's "The Coronation of Poppea" with La Stagione Frankfurt under Michael Schneider, Palemone in Josef Schuster's rediscovered opera "Amor e Psiche", Pedrillo in Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio", a co-production of the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsches Theater Göttingen, Tamino in "The Magic Flute" at the Gut Immling Festival, Uriel in a staged realisation of Haydn's oratorio "The Creation" on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the city of Ludwigsburg. He also sang the roles of Alfred in "Die Fledermaus" and Macheath in Pepusch's "The Beggar's Opera" in an adaptation by B. Britten. In 2012 he again took part in an opera by Josef Schuster. This time in the role of Conte Belsospiro in "Il marito indolento" at the Tage Alter Musik in Regensburg. At the Herrenchiemsee Festival in 2013, Andreas Post made his role debut as the Dance Master in "Ariadne auf Naxos". In 2014 he made his role debut as Belmonte at the VOICES Festival. In 2015 he made a highly successful guest appearance at the Mozart Festival Würzburg as Tamino with the Lautten Compagney under Wolfgang Katschner. At the Prinzregententheater in Munich he could be heard under Enoch zu Guttenberg as 1st Armoured Man in the "The Magic Flute". In 2015/16 he sang in a staged production of the "St John Passion" at the Wuppertaler Bühnen, among others. In 2016/17 he performed the part of Vitaliano in Handel's opera "Il Giustino" with the Lautten Compagney Berlin under Wolfgang Katschner, among others at the Handel Festival Halle (CD recording). In 2019 he made a repeat guest appearance with the Lautten Compagney at the Handel Festival Halle. This time as Oronte in Handel's "Alcina", followed in 2021 by Vitaliano in "Il Giustino" at the Handel Festival Göttingen.
In opera CD productions he can be heard as Varo in Gluck’s „Ezio“ and in the title role of the opera „Demofoonte“ by J. Schuster, among others.
He is also passionate about the art song, to which he devotes himself above all with the lied accompanist Dominikus Burghardt. He premiered songs by Aribert Reimann and Wolfgang Rihm at the Kissinger Sommer. There, too, he sang the world premiere of the Rilke cycle “Dir zur Feier” by Manfred Trojahn. In programmes combining song and reading, he has worked with well-known actresses such as Eva Mattes or Corinna Kirchhoff or the radio announcer Eckhard Leue, among others.
Andreas Post started his vocal training with Alastair Thompson and then completed his studies in the class of Prof. Ks. Soto Papoulkas at the Folkwang University in Essen. He passed his Konzertexamen with distinction. He is a prize winner of the 11th International Bach Competition in Leipzig and a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association in Cologne and the German Schubert Society, the latter enabled him to take lessons in art song interpretation with Norman Shetler.
B. Britten/J. Ch.Pepusch | The Beggar’s Opera | Macheath |
E. Cavalieri | La Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo | Intelletto |
Ch. W. Gluck | Orphée et Eurydice (Paris Version, 1774) | Orphée |
Ezio | Varo | |
G. F. Handel | Acis und Galathea | Acis |
Belshazzar | Belshazzar | |
Jephta | Jephta | |
Samson | Samson | |
Il Giustino | Vitaliano | |
Alcina | Oronte | |
C. Monteverdi | The Coronation of Poppea | Ottone |
Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda | Testo | |
W. A. Mozart | The Abduction from the Seraglio | Belmonte, Pedrillo |
The Magic Flute | Tamino, 1st Armoured Man | |
Mitridate | Mitridate | |
Don Giovanni | Don Ottavio | |
Così fan tutte | Ferrando | |
Der Stein der Weisen (Pasticcio by Mozart et al.) | Astromonte | |
O. Nicolai | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Fenton |
J. Schuster | Demofoonte | Demofoonte |
Amor e Psiche | Palemone | |
Il marito indolente | Conte Belsospiro | |
J. Strauß | Die Fledermaus / The Bat | Alfred |
R. Strauss | Ariadne auf Naxos | Dancing Master |
K. Weill | Mahagonny Songspiel | Billy |
C. Ph. E. Bach | Magnificat in D major - Wtq 215 |
The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus Wtq 240 | |
St. Matthew Passion H 802 | |
Cantata: Musik am Dankfeste wegen des fertigen Michaelis-Thurms | |
J. Christian Bach | Gloria in excelsis Deo |
J. Christoph Bach | Cantata: Es erhub sich ein Streit |
J. S. Bach | St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 |
St. John Passion BWV 245 (1725 edition as well) | |
Markuspassion (Fragment BWV 247, mit „und ich erzähle“ von O. Büsing) | |
Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 | |
Easter Oratorio BWV 249 | |
Ascension Oratorio BWV 11 | |
Magnificat in D major BWV 243 | |
Mass in B minor BWV 232 | |
Lutheran Masses in A major BWV 234 and G major BWV 236 | |
Cantatas : BWV 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 13, 19, 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 45, 55, 61, 62, 63, 65, 67, 70, 71, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 91, 92, 93, 95, 99, 100, 106, 110, 126, 127, 131, 132, 134, 136, 137, 140, 143, 147, 148, 153, 157, 160, 168, 172, 173, 174, 179, 184, 189 191, 205, 208 | |
L. v. Beethoven | Mass in C major Op. 86 |
Missa solemnis Op. 123 | |
Symphony No. 9 Op. 125 | |
J. A. Benda | Kantate: „Eilet, eilet, das Gesetz zu hören |
B. Britten | Canticle I, My beloved is mine |
Canticle II, Abraham and Isaac | |
Canticle III, Still falls the rain | |
War Requiem Op. 66 | |
Cantata misericordium Op. 69 | |
M. Bruch | Moses Op. 67 |
A. Bruckner | Mass in F minor |
Te Deum in C major | |
G. Bunk | Groß ist Gottes Herrlichkeit Op. 82 |
D. Buxtehude | Cantata: Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn |
M. A. Charpentier | Te Deum |
H. Distler | Choral-Passion Op. 7 |
Die Weihnachtsgeschichte (The Christmas Story) Op. 10 | |
A. Dvořák | Requiem Op.89 |
Stabat Mater Op. 58 | |
Mass in D major Op.86 | |
L. Edlund | Gloria (for Choir and Tenor-Solo) |
E. Elgar | The Dream of Gerontius Op. 38 (im engl. Original) |
Ph. E. Erlebach | Various Cantatas |
C. Franck | Mass in A major Op. 12 |
Die Sieben Worte Jesu am Kreuz | |
Les Béatitudes (Die Seligpreisungen) | |
L. Gatti | Creation Mass/Schöpfungsmesse (on J. Haydn's 'The Creation') |
G. Gebel d.J. | Weihnachtskantaten – 1747/48: „Verfolge mich, o Welt“ „Gott Lob! Mein Jesus macht mich rein“ , „Mein Jesu A und O, der Anfang und das Ende“ , „Begebet eure Leiber zum Opfer“ |
Ch. Gounod | Les sept paroles du Christ sur la croix |
Messe Solenelle – St. Cecilia | |
C. H. Graun | Der Tod Jesu |
G. F. Handel | The Messiah, HWV 283 |
Jephta HWV 70 | |
Saul | |
Israel in Egypt (various editions) | |
Belshazzar | |
Samson | |
Judas Macabaeus | |
Esther HWV 50a | |
Alexander`s Feast HWV 75 | |
Dettingen Te Deum HWV 283 | |
Utrecht Te Deum HWV 278 | |
Utrecht Jubilate | |
Dixit Dominus (Psalm 109(110)) | |
Acis und Galathea | |
St. John Passion (1704) - probably not by Handel | |
Anthems: „In the Lord put I my trust“ HWV 247 | |
„I will magnify thee“ HWV 250″ | |
Theodora | |
J. Haydn | The Creation |
The Seasons | |
Stabat Mater | |
Missa in Tempore Belli (Kettledrum Mass) | |
Missa in Augustiis (Nelson Mass) | |
Theresienmesse | |
Missa Cellensis (Mass for Mariazell) | |
Missa Sancti Nicolai (Nicolai Mass / Missa No. 6 in G major) | |
In honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae (Great Organ Mass) | |
Missa Sancti Bernadi in Offida (Heiligmesse) | |
J. D. Heinichen | Magnificat in A major |
H. v. Herzogenberg | Oratorio: Die Geburt Christi |
G. A. Homilius | „Uns ist ein Kind geboren“ |
A. Honneger | Le Roi David |
L. Janáček | Glagolitic Mass |
R. Keiser | St. Mark Passion |
J. Kuhnau | Kantate : „Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern“ |
Ch. J. Lidarti | Esther (Oratorio in Hebrew) |
F. Martin | In terra pax |
J. Mattheson | Weihnachtsoratorium: „Die heilsame Geburt“ |
Magnificat e due cori | |
F. Mendelssohn | Paulus Op. 36 |
Elijah Op. 70 | |
Christus (Fragment Op.97) | |
Hymn of Praise Op. 52 | |
Walpurgisnacht (The First Walpurgis Night) Op. 60 | |
St. Matthew Passion (on J. S. Bach) - 1841 edition | |
Lauda Sion Op. 73 | |
Ave Maria Op. 23, No. 2 | |
Psalm 42, Op. 42 | |
Psalm 95, Op. 46 | |
Psalm 115, Op. 31 | |
C. Monteverdi | Vespero della Beata Vergine 1610, Moeseler and Lubenow (as well in the transp. Edition by King's Music) |
Madrigals, Books 5. and 8. (various pieces) | |
W. A. Mozart | KV 626 Requiem in D minor (Editions: Süßmeier, Beyer, Levin and as Fragment-Edition) |
KV 243 Litaniae de venerabili altaris Sacramento | |
KV 125 Litaniae de venerabili altaris Sacramento | |
KV 321 Vesperae de Dominica | |
KV 339 Vesperae solemnes de confessore | |
KV 572 The Messiah (on Handel) | |
KV 623 Freimaurerkantate: „Laut verkünde unsere Freude“ | |
KV 139 (47a) Missa (solemnis) in c „Weisenhaus-Messe“ | |
KV 140 (235d) Missa brevis in G major | |
KV 192 (186f) Missa brevis in F major | |
KV 194 (186h) Missa brevis in D major | |
KV 220 (196b) Missa brevis et solemnis in C-Dur „Spatzen-Messe“ | |
KV 257 Missa in C-Dur „Große Credo-Messe“ | |
KV 258 Missa brevis in C-Dur „Spaur-Messe“ | |
KV 259 Missa brevis in C-Dur „Orgelsolo-Messe“ | |
KV 275 (272b) Missa brevis in B flat major | |
KV 317 Missa in C-Dur „Krönungsmesse“ | |
KV 427 (417a) Missa in C minor (Edition: Eder) | |
O. Nicolai | Mass in D major |
C. Orff | Carmina burana |
G. Österreich | Kantate : „Ach Herr, wie sind meiner Feinde so viel“ |
G. Puccini | Messa da Gloria |
H. Purcell | Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day |
Fairy Queen | |
A. Ramirez | Misa Criolla |
M. Reger | Requiem-Movement Op. 145a |
Dies irae 2. Requiem-Movement (unfinished) | |
Ch. H. Rinck | Kantate: „Gott sorgt für uns“ |
Motette: „Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele“ | |
C. de Rossi | Oratorio: Il sacrifizio di Abramo (1708) |
G. Rossini | Petite Messe solennelle |
D. Sarri | Missa: „Dixit Dominus“ |
C. Saint-Saëns | Oratorio de Noël Op. 12 |
W. Sauseng | Passio Iesu secundum Ioannem (2002) |
F. Schubert | Masses in G major (D 167), C major (D 452), F major (D 105), A flat major (D 678), E flat major (D 950) |
German Stabat Mater (G. Klopstock) D 383 | |
Tantum ergo in E flat major (D 962) | |
Intende voci orationis (Offertorium) D 963 | |
German Mass D 872 | |
H. Schütz | Die sieben Worte Christi am Kreuz SWV 478 |
St. Matthew Passion | |
Die Weihnachtshistorie (The Christmas Story) | |
„Der Herr ist mein Licht“ – Deutsches Konzert f. Tenor und Bariton | |
„O Jesu, nomen dulce“ SWV 308 | |
Various works for ensemble | |
R. Schumann | Das Paradies und die Peri |
Scenes from Goethe's Faust | |
The Pilgrimage of the Rose Op. 112 | |
Requiem Op. 148 | |
H. Schroeder | St John Passion |
G. H. Stölzel | „Brockes“-Passion : Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus 1725 |
Various Cantatas | |
I. Stravinsky | Cantata 1952 |
Mass for Chorus and Double Woodwind Quintet | |
G. Ph. Telemann | Die Auferstehung – 1761 TWV 6;7 |
Kapitänsmusik 1724: „Freut euch des Herrn, ihr Gerechten“ | |
Kapitänsmusik 1730 : „Jauchze, jubilier und singe“ | |
Christmas Oratorio: Die Hirten an der Krippe | |
Serenata: „Geliebter Aufenthalt beglückter Stille“ | |
Various Cantatas | |
Lukas Passion 1744 TWV 5:29 | |
G. Verdi | Messa da Requiem |
A. Vivaldi | Magnificat in F major - RV 610 |
C. M. v. Weber | Messe in G-Dur Op. 76 „Jubelmesse“ |
J. D. Zelenka | Missa Omnium Sanctorum ZWV 21 |
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