Behlcanto! - Famous Tenor Arias Daniel Behle & Alliage Quintett

• Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880):
• 1 Offenbach: Hoffmanns Erzählungen, Act I: Es war einmal am Hof von Eisenack (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Alexander Krampe) 04:31
• Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893):
• 2 Gounod: Faust, Act III: Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Alexander Krampe) 05:11
• Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875):
• 3 Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles, Act I: Je crois entendre encore (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Alexander Krampe) 04:34
• Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868):
• 4 Rossini: La Danza. Sieh den Mond im Meere glänzen (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Stefan Malzew) 03:29
• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924):
• 5 Puccini: Tosca, Act III: E lucevan le stelle (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Stefan Malzew) 04:11
• Georges Bizet:
• 6 Bizet: Carmen, Act II: La fleur qu tu m’avais jetée (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Alexander Krampe) 03:30
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848):
• 7 Donizetti: La Fille du régiment, Act I: Ah, mes amis, quel jour de fête! (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Stefan Malzew) 04:47
• Giacomo Puccini:
• 8 Puccini: Turandot, Act III: Keiner schlafe (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Stefan Malzew) 02:47
• Gioachino Rossini:
• 9 Rossini: Tancredi: Overture (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Sebastian Pottmeier) 05:48
• Linguini Passatelli (1887 - 1925):
• 10 Passatelli: Canzone. I timori di domani (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Daniel Behle) 02:56
• Jacques Fromental Halévy (1799 - 1862):
• 11 Halévy: Die Jüdin, Act IV: Rachel, als Gott dich einst zur Tochter mir gegegben (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Alexander Krampe) 05:41
• Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857 - 1919):
• 12 Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci: Recitar!... Vesti la giubba (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Alexander Krampe) 03:39
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901):
• 13 Verdi: Il Trovatore, Act III: Ah sì, ben mio... Di quella pira (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Alexander Krampe) 05:34
• Charles Gounod:
• 14 Gounod: Roméo et Juliette, Act II: L’amour, l'amour!... Ah, lêve-toi, soleil! (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Alexander Krampe) 05:15
• Amilcare Ponchielli (1834 - 1886):
• 15 Ponchielli: La Gioconda, Act II: Cielo e mar (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Alexander Krampe) 04:17
• Eduardo Di Capua (1865 - 1917):
• 16 Di Capua: 'O sole mio. So voller Schönheit (Arr. for Saxophone Quartet & Piano by Stefan Malzew) 02:49
• Total Runtime 01:08:59

Info for Behlcanto! - Famous Tenor Arias

Everyone knows tenor arias. Everyone knows saxophones. But tenor arias with four saxophones and piano? That is where the adventure of behlcanto begins – the new album by Daniel Behle and the Alliage Quintett.

The program is a true “who’s who” of the tenor repertoire: Offenbach’s witty “Kleinzack Aria” (sung in German), Bizet’s enchanting Je crois entendre encore, Gounod’s poetic Salut! demeure chaste et pure, Donizetti’s legendary Ah! mes amiswith its dazzling high notes – and Puccini’s Nessun dorma (here sung in German as Keiner schlafe), which retains all of its spine-tingling magic in this unique setting. Alongside come Italian showpieces such as Rossini’s La danza, romantic highlights from Verdi, Ponchielli and Halévy, and – as a grand finale – the evergreen ’O sole mio, here presented in a very special “Hamburg” version.

Daniel Behle, tenor
Alliage Quintett

Daniel Behle The singer and composer Daniel Behle was honoured as "Singer of the Year" in 2020 for his "MoZart" recording with OPUS Klassik. He is equally successful in concert, Lied and opera and made his highly acclaimed debut as Lohengrin in early 2020. His repertoire ranges from Baroque masterpieces, classical and romantic repertoire to 20th and 21st century compositions.

Daniel Behle is also increasingly making a name for himself as a composer: After the arrangements for tenor and piano trio "WinterreiseN" (Sony Classical), "Mein Hamburg" (Berlin Classics) and "Meine schönsten Weihnachtslieder" (Sony Classical) the highly acclaimed world premiere of his first operetta "Hopfen und Malz" (hops and malt), took place in January 2023 in Annaberg-Buchholz. Currently, he is working on his second operetta.

In 2023/24, he returns to the Salzburger Festspiele under the baton of Adam Fischer (Mozart “Il re pastore”). He performs Beethoven “Missa solemnis” with Rotterdams Filharmonisch Orkest and Andrew Manze, and with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie and Jérémie Rhorer, sings a New Year’s gala concert with the Sinfonieorchester Basel under Delyana Lazarova’s direction and returns to the Berliner Philharmoniker to perform Schönberg‘s „Die Jakobsleiter“ with Kirill Petrenko.

Recitals and chamber music projects take him to Lucerne and to the Stadttheater Olten. He will perform opera at the Netherlands Opera Amsterdam (“Lohengrin”), Scala di Milano and Wiener Staatsoper (“Die Entführung aus dem Serail and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (“Così fan tutte”).

Daniel Behle regularly performs with orchestras such as the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the Berliner and Wiener Philharmoniker, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Wiener Symphoniker and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, working with conductors such as Bertrand de Billy, Semyon Bychkov, Hartmut Haenchen, Thomas Hengelbrock, Pablo Heras-Casado, Marek Janowski, Philippe Jordan, Fabio Luisi, Andrew Manze, Ingo Metzmacher, Kent Nagano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jérémie Rhorer, Christian Thielemann, Lorenzo Viotti and Franz Welser-Möst. Recent recital projects have taken him to the Wigmore Hall London, Schubertiade, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, KKL Luzern and Musikverein Wien.

Important opera engagements in recent years have taken him to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden ("Così fan tutte", "Don Giovanni". “Die Zauberflöte”), the Staatstheater Stuttgart ("Freischütz", "Lohengrin"), Opernhaus Zürich ("Die Entführung aus dem Serail", "Arabella"), the Bayerische Staatsoper München ("Arabella", “Giuditta”), Semperoper Dresden („Rheingold“ and „Meistersinger“) and the Bayreuther Festspiele ("Meistersinger", "Tannhäuser").

His steadily growing discography includes 18 solo albums, several of them award-winning. His second Strauss album "Un-Erhört" (Prospero Classical) with Oliver Schnyder at the piano was awarded the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik. His most recent releases “Heimat” with German Hornsound (Prospero) and the Beethoven album “Gegenliebe” with Jan Schultsz on fortepiano (Pan Classics) have been especially well received. Daniel Behle lives in Basel with his wife, the Swiss violist Carla Branca Behle, and their three children.

Alliage Quintett
belongs to the European elite of wind chamber music and boasts a unique instrumental combination: four saxophones and a piano, fused into a new, organic whole ("alliage"), create the sonic illusion of a large orchestra. The ensemble, winner of two ECHO Klassik awards, achieves this effect. The melodic expressiveness of the saxophones meets the orchestral richness of the piano, generating a new listening experience that is fundamentally different from other saxophone ensembles. The quintet was founded by Canadian Daniel Gauthier, first soprano saxophone player. He has been a professor at the Cologne University of Music since 2003.

The core of their repertoire consists of masterpieces from all eras, presented in meticulously crafted and sophisticated arrangements for saxophone quartet and piano. All arrangements are commissioned by the ensemble, created in close collaboration with the respective composer, and subject to the highest quality standards.

The Alliage Quintet performs regularly in Europe, Asia, and North America, as well as at renowned German and international festivals, and is distinguished by a number of high-caliber collaborations with stars of the classical music world. Its closest relationship is with clarinetist Sabine Meyer, with whom Alliage has shared the stage since 2015, performing over 70 concerts.

In addition to Sabine Meyer, tenor Daniel Behle (program "Behlcanto," CD recording planned for 2024 featuring works by Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, and Puccini) and cellist Alban Gerhardt are current musical partners of the Alliage Quintet. The Alliage Quintet will perform with Alban Gerhardt at this year's Beethovenfest Bonn. Previous collaborations have also included star soprano Simone Kermes and violinist Joszef Lendvay. Furthermore, the Alliage Quintet specializes in concert-reading formats and offers various programs, including those featuring actors.

The musicians have released a total of seven CDs featuring works specially arranged for them. In 2008, Sony Classical released "Masquerade," a recomposition of "The Four Seasons" by Jun Nagao/Antonio Vivaldi and arrangements by Johann Sebastian Bach. The ensemble received its first ECHO Klassik award in 2005 for its CD "Una Voce Poco Fa," as well as in 2014 for the CD "Dancing Paris." "Fantasia," a collaboration with Sabine Meyer, followed in 2016, and "Lost in Temptation," featuring works by Bernstein, Respighi, Saint-Saëns, and Weill, was released in 2018. The next CD release, "Phantasy in Blue," a collaboration with Alban Gerhard, will be released on June 2, 2023, by Hyperion Records.