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Das Lied von der Erde
B U D A P E S T
CHANNEL CLASSICS
CCS SA 40020
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Ivan
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G e r h i l d Ro m b e r g e r, a l t o
Ro b e r t D e a n S m i t h , t e n o r
Iván Fischer
(Photo: Jonas Sacks)
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Iván Fischer and BFO
ván Fischer
made his dream come true when he founded the Budapest Festival Orchestra in
1983
together with Zoltán Kocsis. From the very beginning, the ambition of the ensemble has
been to share music of the highest quality and to serve the community in the most diverse ways.
The
bfo
is rated among the top ten orchestras in the world. The orchestra regularly performs
at the most important concert venues of the international music scene, including Carnegie Hall
and the Lincoln Center in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna and the Royal Albert Hall and
Barbican Centre in London. They have repeatedly been invited to perform at international festi-
vals such as the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Salzburg Festival and the Edinburgh International
Festival. The
bfo
has won two Gramophone Awards. It was nominated for a Grammy in
2013
for its
recording of Mahler’s
Symphony No. 1
and won the Diapason d’Or and the Italian Toblacher Kom-
ponierhäuschen prize for its recording of Mahler’s
Symphony No. 5
in
2014.
The
bfo
received the
Association of Music Critics of Argentina’s award for Best Foreign Symphony Orchestra in
2016.
The
bfo’s
innovative concert, such as the Autism-friendly Cocoa Concerts, Surprise Concerts,
and musical marathons, are well known around the world. The Midnight Music concerts attract
young adults, while the Dancing on the Square project integrates disadvantaged children. The
orchestra promotes free Community Weeks and co-produces the Bridging Europe festival with
Müpa Budapest.
Iván Fischer
conducts and directs the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s opera productions. These
have been invited to the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Abu
Dhabi Festival. The Marriage of Figaro was ranked first on the New York Magazine list of the best
events in classical music in
2013.
The Vicenza Opera Festival, founded by Iván Fischer, was inaugu-
rated in the autumn of
2018.
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Gerhild Romberger, alto
G
erhild Romberger was born and brought up in the Emsland, Germany. After studying music
for schools at the Academy of Music in Detmold, she attended voice training classes with
Heiner Eckels and graduated with concert-standard honours. She rounded off her studies with
courses under the professors of lieder performance Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll. She now
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lives with her family in Detmold, where for a long time she has been an extremely popular
professor of singing at the Academy of Music.
As a contralto she has always concentrated on concert performances, her work focusing on
lieder recitals on a wide variety of themes, as well as on contemporary music. Her extremely
extensive repertoire encompasses all the major contralto and mezzo-soprano parts in the oratorio
and concert literature from the Baroque to the Classical and Romantic periods all the way to the
twentieth century.
Significant career moments for Gerhild Romberger in recent years were the concerts with
Manfred Honeck, who invited her to perform in, among other works, Mahler’s symphonies,
Beethoven’s
Missa solemnis
and the
Grosse Messe
by Walter Braunfels. She has also performed with the
Berlin Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Herbert
Blomstedt and the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester with Riccardo Chailly. Furthermore she
performed with the Vienna and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras (under Daniel Harding), the hr-
Sinfonieorchester, at La Scala (under Franz Welser- Möst) and with the Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra (under Thomas Hengelbrock and Bernard Haitink).
Highlights of the current season include a concert tour with the Vienna Philharmonic
Orchestra and Beethoven’s
9thSymphony
under the baton of Andris Nelsons as well as Mahler’s
3rdSymphony
with Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam. Furthermore, she can be heard with
Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and the Budapest Festival Orchestra and with Schumann’s Paradies
und Peri at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie.
Robert Dean Smith, tenor
H
e made his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in
1997
as Walther von Stolzing in
Die Meistersinger von
Nürnberg,
returning as
Tristan, Lohengrin,
and Siegmund in
Die Walküre.
Additional engagements
include performances with the opera houses of Munich, Vienna, La Scala Milan, Rome, Naples,
Paris,
met
New York, Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, London, Bolshoi Moscow, Chicago, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Madrid, Barcelona, Budapest, Toulouse, Zürich, and Tokyo.
He has performed in concert with the Royal Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam, Vienna
Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Bayerische Rundfunkorchester, Bayerische Staatsorchester
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Gerhild Romberger
(Photo: Rosa Frank)
Robert Dean Smith
(Photo: Todd Smith)
Munich, London Symphony Orchestra, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome, Staatskapelle
Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestre de
Paris, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hamburg
Symphoniker, Symphonica Toscanini, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Monte-Carlo
Orchestre Philharmonique, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Robert Dean Smith’s
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recording on Arte Nova of Wagner scenes has been awarded the
‘Orphée d’Or’ by the Académie du Disque Lyrique. Born in Kansas,
usa,
he studied at Pittsburg
(Kansas) State University with Margaret Thuenemann, at the Juilliard School in New York City
with Daniel Ferro, and with Professor Janice Harper in Europe. Like many dramatic tenors, he
began his career as a baritone and sang for several years in German opera houses. His excellent
training and stage versatility allow him to sing a wide variety of repertoire in many different
languages and styles.
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