Jesse Blumberg is a stylistically versatile baritone at ease in music ranging from Baroque oratorios to contemporary opera and art song. His accomplished technique and attention to language have made him a favorite of presenters such as Apollo’s Fire, Boston Early Music Festival, American Bach Soloists, the Marilyn Horne Foundation, and New York Festival of Song. A champion of art song, Blumberg is founding artistic director of Five Boroughs Music Festival in New York City and is the guest artist for next month’s Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago: Winter Lieder Lounge with the iconic pianist and pedagogue Martin Katz.
Watch Jesse Blumberg’s performance as Jesus in J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion with Nicholas Phan as the Evangelist and Jeffrey Strauss as Pilate and Apollo’s Fire conducted by Jeannette Sorrell.
Playlist
All selections feature baritone Jesse Blumberg.
Agostino Steffani: “Fiera Aletto” from Niobe, Regina di Tebe
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, co-directors Steffani: Niobe, Regina di Tebe
Erato 0825646343546
George Frideric Handel: “Zweier Augen Majestät from Almira
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, co-directors Handel: Almira
CPO 555-205-2
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: “Affreux tourments” from La descente d’Orphée aux enfers
Jason McStoots, tenor
Zachary Wilder, tenor
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, co-directors Charpentier: La couronne de fleurs & La descente d’Orphée aux enfers
CPO 777876-2
Johann Rosenmüller: Ascendit invictissimus salvator
ACRONYM Johann Rosenmüller in Exile
New Focus Recordings FCR-909
Johann Sebastian Bach: “Alles was von Gott geboren”: from Ein fester Burg is unser Gott, BWV 80
Hélène Brunet, soprano
Montreal Baroque
Eric Milnes, director JS Bach: Cantatas For Luther, BWV76, 79 & 80
ATMA Classique ACD-22407
Ricky Ian Gordon: O City of Ships
Martha Guth, soprano
Thomas Bagwell, piano Five Borough Songbook
GPR Records GPR-10012
Steven Edward Stucky: “I hear America singing” from American Muse
Bowling Green Philharmonia,
Emily Freeman Brown, conductor New Music From Bowling Green, Vol. 6
Albany TROY-1214
Franz Schubert: Winterreise
IV. Erstarrung
V. Der Lindenbaum
VI. Wasseflut
VII. Auf dem Flusse
Martin Katz, piano Schubert: Winterreise
Blue Griffin digital release
