Joseph Martin Kraus: Voix des Lumières Marie Perbost, Génération Mozart, Pejman Memarzadeh

• Joseph Martin Kraus (1756 - 1792): Olympie, VB 33:
• 1 Kraus: Olympie, VB 33: Overture 07:08
• Zum Geburtstage des König, VB 41:
• 2 Kraus: Zum Geburtstage des König, VB 41: Overture 05:24
• 3 Kraus: Zum Geburtstage des König, VB 41: Töne leise, goldne Saite 08:27
• Funeral Cantata for Gustav III, VB 42:
• 4 Kraus: Funeral Cantata for Gustav III, VB 42: Introduction 06:08
• 5 Kraus: Funeral Cantata for Gustav III, VB 42: På thronens höjd 04:14
• Der Tod Jesu, VB 17:
• 6 Kraus: Der Tod Jesu, VB 17: Overture 02:20
• 7 Kraus: Der Tod Jesu, VB 17: Er Starb, um uns von ewigem Tod zu retten 04:25
• Proserpin, VB 19:
• 8 Kraus: Proserpin, VB 19: Overture 07:46
• 9 Kraus: Proserpin, VB 19: Ach hvad behag et hjerta njuter 07:43
• Pantomime in D Major, VB 37:
• 10 Kraus: Pantomime in D Major, VB 37: I. Allegro 02:58
• 11 Kraus: Pantomime in D Major, VB 37: II. Adagio 02:38
• 12 Kraus: Pantomime in D Major, VB 37: III. Presto 02:09
• Ariette in G Major, VB 58:
• 13 Kraus: Ariette in G Major, VB 58: Du temps qui détruit tout 02:36
• Total Runtime 01:03:56

Info for Joseph Martin Kraus: Voix des Lumières

Overshadowed by the giants Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, many other highly talented composers also played a part in shaping the Classical style. Génération Mozart aims to reinstate those lesser- known composers and thus shed light on other aspects of Classicism.

Joseph Martin Kraus is the subject of this first volume. Born in Germany, and an almost exact contemporary of Mozart, he spent much of his career at the royal court in Stockholm, which is why he is commonly known as the ‘Swedish Mozart’. He is considered the most significant figure in Swedish music of the later Eighteenth Century.

Génération Mozart and conductor Pejman Memarzadeh are joined here by soprano Marie Perbost, winner of the Revelation, Opera Singer category at the Victoires de la Musique 2020. They present a programme of vocal and orchestral music, often tormented in expression and heralding Romanticism.

Marie Perbost, soprano
Generation Mozart
Pejman Memarzadeh, conductor

Marie Perbost
Hailing from a family of musicians, French Soprano Marie Perbost’s first musical experiences date to her time with the Maîtrise de Radio-France, singing concerts at home and abroad under the batons of renowned conductors such as Kurt Masur and Myung Wung Chung. Her musical education continued at the Paris Conservatoire with Alain Buet and Cécile de Boever. For the season 2017/2018, she is a member of Paris National Opera Bastille opera studio.

She is selected by the prestigious Salzbourg Festival (2018) and Festival d’Aix (2019) academies. ​

Marie took a keen interest in the repertoire of Lied and French melody thanks to the inspiring teaching of Anne le Bozec. With her perennial pianist and dear friend Josephine Ambroselli, she won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Competition as well as prizes at the International Seasons of the Voice competition in Gordes in October 2014 and the 2013 International Lied Competition in Enschende, The Netherlands. ​

Singer and actress, Marie’s has played a diverse smattering of opera and operetta roles such as Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Marzelline in Beethoven’s Fidelio, Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Le dialogue des carmélites, Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Die junge Frau in Boesman’s Reigen and Elisetta in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto. She won a prize from the Centre Français de Promotion Lyrique given by Raymond Duffaut at the Avignon Opera Competition and finalist (fourth- place) at the International Geneva Competition in 2016. She was flagged as a 2016 Rising Star by the ADAMI, France’s performers’ rights organization. Marie was also selected as a Victoire de la Musique Revelation in 2018. ​

As a soloist, she has caught the eye of many respected conductors and large productions such as Lionel Sow’s interpretation of the Neues Liebeslieder Walzer from Brahms at the Paris Philharmonic, Emmanuelle Haïm’s concert at Paris’s Invalides, or Philippe Pierlot’s version of Bach’s Saint John’s Passion at Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral. She has also been invited as a soloist at Nantes’s Folles Journées festival, the Froville festival, the Mozart festival, Versailles’s Royal Chapel, Paris’s Péniche Opéra, the Perigord noir festival, Le festival de la Vézère, the Pablo Casals festival and numerous other international venues.

An ardent defender of contemporary creation, Marie is a founding member, lead singer and artistic director of the Ensemble 101, a contemporary musical theatre collective that creates and performs its own work. The Ensemble has won numerous awards for French contemporary music and is currently Artist in Residence at the Villa Arson in Nice until 2019. ​

Since 2012, Marie is a beneficiary of a scholarship from the Rhine’s Gold Foundation (a subsidiary of the Fondation de France), the Meyer Foundation, as well as the Kriegelstein Foundation.

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