To the Music Charles Dekeyser

• 1An die Musik02:22
• 2Im Abendrot03:43
• 3Im Fruhling03:43
• 4Ihr Bild02:25
• 5Wandrers Nachtlied01:26
• 6Allegretto semplice02:11
• 7Allegro moderato05:01
• 8Nacht, Strasse vor Gretchens Thur02:10
• 9Ich grolle nicht01:31
• 10Zueignung01:38
• 11Liebst du um Schonheit02:03
• 12Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen05:18
• 13Barcarolle, A Madame la Baronne de Stockhausen09:12
• 14Io ti lascio03:18
• 15Prelude while the cold genius arises03:13
• 16La calunnia04:16
• Total Runtime53:30

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The joined forces of music and literature can lift up both arts beyond themselves. It is this promise that impelled many composers throughout the centuries to transcend their talents in the own musical discipline to create a higher reality – whether in the intimate atmosphere of the Lied or in the exhilarating publicity of the opera. A late seventeenth-century testimony of this is the semi-opera King Arthur (1691) by Henry Purcell: In What Power art thou, who from below… chills run down the spine when the allegorical figure Cold Genius shakes off the snow from his cloak at the request of Cupid, who wants to incite a new spring with his love.

Charles Dekeyser, bass (vocals)
Adriaan Jacobs, piano
Polina Bogdanova, piano

Charles Dekeyser
born in Ghent - Belgium in 1986, started singing classes with Dina Grossberger and with the soprano Martine Reyners. He studied at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles where he attended the classes of bass baritone Marcel Vanaud. He followed master classes with Nadine Denize, Graham Johnson, Sarah Walker, Micaela von Gegerfelt, Pietro Rizzo. In 2008 he was laureate of the 'Concours National de Chant de Verviers - Prix Jacques Dôme'. In June 2010, he obtained the certificate 'Laureate of the Flanders Opera studio, voice option'.

In various projects, Charles performed the characters of Figaro, Bartolo and Antonio (Nozze di Figaro), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), Melisso (Alcina), La Mort (La Mort au Bal masqué). As soloist he sang in Dixit Dominus (Händel), chamber music projects on J.Brahms, Requiem (Mozart), Juanelo (Brossé), Messa di Gloria (Donizetti), Recital for The Open Days of the European Union with the pianist Dmytro Sukhovienko in The Centre for fine Arts - Brussel.

In September 2010 he is admitted at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in the Opera studio section in collaboration with la Monnaie under the direction of José van Dam. He received a scholarship granted by Schelstraete & Desmedt nv.

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