To the Music Charles Dekeyser

• 1 An die Musik 02:22
• 2 Im Abendrot 03:43
• 3 Im Fruhling 03:43
• 4 Ihr Bild 02:25
• 5 Wandrers Nachtlied 01:26
• 6 Allegretto semplice 02:11
• 7 Allegro moderato 05:01
• 8 Nacht, Strasse vor Gretchens Thur 02:10
• 9 Ich grolle nicht 01:31
• 10 Zueignung 01:38
• 11 Liebst du um Schonheit 02:03
• 12 Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen 05:18
• 13 Barcarolle, A Madame la Baronne de Stockhausen 09:12
• 14 Io ti lascio 03:18
• 15 Prelude while the cold genius arises 03:13
• 16 La calunnia 04:16
• Total Runtime 53:30

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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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