"When it comes to turning (German-language) texts into music, Daniel Johannsen currently marks the pinnacle of sensual conveyance of meaning." This is how the Leipziger Volkszeitung hymnally reviews the 2023 OPUS KLASSIK nominated CD 360° Hugo Wolf, which the Viennese-born tenor presented together with the pianist Andreas Fröschl. After training as a church musician, the tenor studied voice with Margit Klaushofer and Robert Holl in Vienna; he was a master student of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christa Ludwig and Nicolai Gedda and has won prizes at the Bach-, Schumann-, Mozart-, Hilde Zadek and Wigmore Hall competitions.
As one of the most sought-after evangelists and Bach interpreters, Daniel Johannsen has performed in the major music centres of Europe, North America, Japan and the Middle East, as well as at numerous festivals (Beethovenfest Bonn, Enescu Festival Bucharest, Bachwoche Ansbach, to name but a few). He has performed under the baton of legendary conductors such as Sir Neville Marriner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Trevor Pinnock, Jordi Savall, Bertrand de Billy, Michel Corboz, Andrew Parrott and Omer Meir Wellber, as well as with the Israel Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Vienna Philharmonic. A particularly close artistic friendship united him with Enoch zu Guttenberg, who died in 2018; performances at New York's Carnegie Hall and the Great Hall of Moscow's Tchaikovsky Conservatory, among others, bear witness to this. Daniel Johannsen is a regular guest of the St. Gallen Bach Foundation and the Nederlandse Bachvereniging ("All of Bach"), and he also enjoys a lively collaboration with Hansjörg Albrecht, Michael Hofstetter and Matthias Grünert
On the opera stage, the lyric tenor, whose engagements have taken him to Munich's Gärtnerplatz, the Leipzig Opera, the Vienna Volksoper and the Bonn Theatre, can be heard in Mozart roles, in works of the Baroque, the 20th century and the modern era, but also in several operetta roles. Lieder recitals with the whole range of the German repertoire (but also with English and French compositions) form a focal point in the activities of the singer, who collaborates with pianists such as Graham Johnson, Charles Spencer and Kristian Bezuidenhout. Some 50 CDs, most of them highly acclaimed by radio and press, document his work.
In 2023-24, his agenda includes numerous projects with Hans-Christoph Rademann as well as several concerts for the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. Under the baton of Martin Haselböck, Daniel Johannsen will make his debut as Evangelist in Los Angeles, and under Kent Nagano he will be heard in Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" in Munich. Once again he will be a guest at the Festival Bach à Montréal and at the Israeli Schubertiade. For the Bachfest Leipzig, he has developed an eagerly awaited concept that brings Schubert's “Winterreise” into dialogue with selected arias by Bach - in each case accompanied by the Atalante Quartet. Also in a string arrangement, and as a world premiere, his interpretation of the “Schöne Müllerin” with the Alinde Quartet (in the form of a double CD, which also includes the original version with Christoph Hammer at the Graf grand piano from 1827) will soon be released by hänssler.
B. Britten | Albert Herring | Albert |
The Little Sweep / Let’s Make an Opera! | Clem | |
L. v. Beethoven | Fidelio | Jaquino |
J.C. de Arriaga | The Arabian Princess | Jamil |
G. Donizetti | L`Elisir d`Amore | Nemorino |
G. F. Handel | Ariodante | Lurcanio |
Jephta | Jephta | |
E. Humperdinck | Königskinder (original version) | Königssohn |
L. Janáček | The Cunning Little Vixen | Schoolmaster |
E. Künneke | Der Vetter aus Dingsda | Egon |
F. Lehár | Der Graf von Luxemburg | Sergej Mentschikoff |
E. L. Leitner | Die Sennenpuppe (UA) | Hirtenjunge (shepherd boy) |
J. Linjama | Die Geburt des Täufers (WP) (The Birth of the Baptist) | Archangel Gabriel |
C. Monteverdi | Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda | Testo |
W. A. Mozart | Cosi fan tutte | Don Ferrando |
Don Giovanni | Don Ottavio | |
The Abduction from the Seraglio | Belmonte, Pedrillo | |
Zaide | Gomatz, Soliman | |
The Magic Flute | Tamino | |
Der Stein der Weisen (Pasticcio by Mozart et al.) | Nadir | |
G. Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia | Conte d`Almaviva,Fiorello |
W. Sauseng | Das Staunen des Ezechiel | Die Allegorie der Bewegung |
J. Strauss | Die Fledermaus / The Bat | Dr. Blind |
Eine Nacht in Venedig | Caramello | |
I. Stravinsky | The Rake’s Progress | Tom Rakewell |
P.I. Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin | Monsieur Triquet |
A. Vivaldi | Serenata a tre | Alcindo |
C. Ph. E. Bach | Magnificat |
The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus | |
The Israelites in the Desert | |
J. S. Bach | More than 100 cantatas, including various secular cantatas; |
All passions | |
Christmas Oratorio | |
Easter Oratorio | |
Mass in B minor | |
Magnificat | |
S. Barber | Hermit Songs |
L. v. Beethoven | Mass in C major |
An die ferne Geliebte | |
9th Symphony | |
J. Brahms | Liebeslieder-Walzer |
B. Britten | Rejoice in the Lamb |
Les Illuminations de Rimbaud | |
Six Hölderlin-Fragments | |
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne | |
S. de Brossard | Quemadmodum desiderat cervus |
A. Bruckner | Te Deum |
N. Bruhns | Various sacred concerts (e.g. "Jauchzet dem Herren") |
F. Büchtger | Christmas Oratorio |
D. Buxtehude | Membra Jesu nostri |
Various cantatas and sacred works | |
A. Campra | O dulcis amor |
M. A. Charpentier | Various sacred concerts |
A. Copland | Old American Folksongs |
H. Distler | Choralpassion (Evangelist) |
Christmas Story (Evangelist) | |
H. Duparc | L’invitation au voyage |
A. Dvořák | Stabat Mater |
Mass in D major | |
C. Franck | Mass in A major |
G. F. Handel | Messiah |
Israel in Egyp | |
Judas Maccabaeus | |
Belshazzar | |
Joshua | |
Alexander’s Feast | |
Utrecht Te Deum | |
J. Haydn | The Creation |
The Seasons | |
All Masses | |
M. Haydn | Requiem |
Vesperae solennes | |
Various Masses | |
A. Honegger | Le Roi David |
L. Janáček | Otčenáš |
N. Jommelli | Requiem |
Miserere | |
E. Křenek | Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen |
B. Marcello | Joaz |
F. Mendelssohn | Hymn of Praise |
St. Paul | |
Elijah | |
Christ (all tenor parts) | |
Soli in various Psalms | |
M. P. de Montéclair | Various secular cantatas |
C. Monteverdi | Vespro della beata vergine (all tenor parts) |
W. A. Mozart | All Masses |
Davide penitente | |
Requiem | |
Vesperae solennes de confessore | |
Concert aria “Misero! O sogno — Aura che intorno spiri” | |
J. Mysliveček | La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo |
P. Planyavsky | Der zufriedengestellte Autobus |
Cactus tragicus | |
G. Rossini | Petite Messe Solennelle |
F. Salmhofer | Heiteres Herbarium |
W. Sauseng | Passio Iesu secundum Ioannem (Evangelist; UA) |
S. Scheidt | Various sacred concerts |
J. H. Schein | Various sacred concerts |
F. Schubert | All Masses |
Intende voci | |
Die schöne Müllerin | |
Winterreise | |
Schwanengesang | |
R. Schumann | Das Paradies und die Peri (Jüngling) |
Dichterliebe | |
Liederkreis nach Heinrich Heine Op. 24 | |
H. Schütz | Christmas Story |
St John Passion | |
St. Matthew Passion | |
Selection of secular works and Symphoniae sacrae | |
H. Suter | Le Laudi |
G. P. Telemann | The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus |
Various cantatas from the 'Harmonischer Gottesdienst' | |
Reformation Passion 1755, TWV 13:18 | |
M. Weckmann | Various sacred concerts |
J. D. Zelenka | Lamentatones Jeremiae Prophetae, ZWV 53 |
H. Zender | Winterreise (on Schubert) |
Numerous sacred works and masses by baroque composers including Rupert Ignaz Mayr, Johann Heinrich Vierdanck, Andreas Rauch and others. | |
More than 300 Songs by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Wolf, Strauss, Schoeck, including the song-cycles by Schubert and Schumann, songs by Britten, Barber and Copland and mélodies francaises by Fauré, Duparc and others. |
All information are subject to change
All performances: https://www.danieljohannsen.com/TERMINKALENDER-SCHEDULE/
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