Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen brings his “astonishingly beautiful” (The Guardian) instrument to a broad range of repertoire spanning the Baroque to the contemporary. Acclaimed as “extravagantly gifted… poised to redefine what’s possible for singers of this distinctive voice type” by the San Francisco Chronicle, the American countertenor’s reputation for creating performances of great vocal beauty and dramatic intensity has led the New York Times to declare him a “complete artist.” Aryeh made his Chicago debut with the Newberry Consort two weeks before coming to wide attention as a winner of the 2017 Metropolitan National Council Auditions. He made his Music of the Baroque debut in Handel’s Jephtha and will debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Mozart’s Coronation Mass this month.
Introducing Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen
Playlist
All selections feature countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen.
Johann Sebastian Bach: “Esurientes implevit bonis” from Magnificat, BWV 243
Cantata Collective
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Recorded live in concert
Christoph Willibald Gluck: “Sperai vicino il lido” from Demofoonte
American Bach Soloist
Jeffrey Thomas, conductor
Kenneth Fuchs: Poems of Life (Twelve Poems by Judith G. Wolf for Countertenor and Orchestra)
II. Sisters; Forever Gone; The Retreat
III. The Dream
Christine Pendrill, cor anglais
Tim Hugh, cello
London Symphony Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Bach: “Es ist vollbracht” from St. John Passion, BWV 245
Elisabeth Reed, viola da gamba
Cantata Collective
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Recorded live in concert
George Frideric Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70
Part I: Aria, “”Up the dreadful steep ascending”
Part II: Aria, “On me let blind mistaken zeal”
Music of the Baroque
Dame Jane Glover, conductor
Recorded live in concert
Robert Schumann: “Frühlingsnacht” from Liederkreis, Op. 39
Schumann: “Der Nussbaum” from Myrthen, Op. 25
Johannes Brahms: Unbewegte laue Luft, Op. 57, No. 8
John Churchwell, piano
Handel: “O Lord, whose Mercies numberless” from Saul, HWV 53
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Recorded live in concert
