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Klaus Florian Vogt--tenor
Ensemble Acht
2024
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Franz Schubert's Fair Maid of the Mill as a premiere recording? Anyone who makes this claim on the international record market would inevitably be confronted with a storm of outrage. Unless, of course, the release announced as a world premiere has something unprecedented to offer – and the present CD production certainly does. Instead of the original version for voice and piano, which has been performed countless times, cpo offers a new, thoroughly successful rendering. The accompaniment, if the instrumental part can be called that at all, is played by the highly successful octet Ensemble acht. Star tenor Klaus Florian Vogt sings the twenty moods of the enamoured miller, who in the end drowns himself due to his despair... The expanded sound palette is the work of the accomplished and insightful arranger and composer Andreas N. Tarkmann, who has illuminated the romantic nuances of the colourful piano part with an almost poignant feeling for poetic drama. A world premiere
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Gramophone Magazine March 2024
At first, he can seem puzzlingly uninvolved. Yet as the cycle builds, one realises that Vogt is portraying the young naive protagonist with hapless passivity...Though some songs are more effective than others, there’s a haunting aftertaste in this insinuating recording.
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"Klaus Florian Vogt (born 12 April 1970) is a German operatic tenor known for his reedy voice[1][2][3][4] and for singing roles written by Richard Wagner.
Career
Klaus Florian Vogt was a hornist first and played for several years with the Hamburg Philharmonic. He studied voice at the Lübeck Academy of Music and was first engaged at the Landestheater in Flensburg.[5]
In 1998 he moved to the Semperoper in Dresden, where he worked with Giuseppe Sinopoli and Colin Davis. He started as a lyrical tenor, singing Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, then also Hans in Smetana's The Bartered Bride and Matteo in Strauss' Arabella.
He sang Wagner's Lohengrin first at the Theater Erfurt in 2002, followed by international appearances in this part and also as Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, his debut part at the Bayreuther Festspiele in 2007, and Parsifal.
In the concert repertoire, he recorded Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, with Christian Gerhaher and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Kent Nagano in 2009.[6]"; Wikipedia
