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“She can give life to a line like few others; her diction is marvellous, and marvellously varied; everything flows with incomparable beauty.”
Gramophone Magazine, 2024
Helen Charlston was recently a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist (2021-23), and finalist of the 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards for which she was a recipient of the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize.
In 2023 she won a Gramophone Award for Best Concept Album, and collected the Vocal award at the BBC Music Magazine Awards, both for her second Delphian album Battle Cry: the only recording that year to win at both ceremonies.
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The American soprano, Helen Donath (née Erwin), stemmed from a family originally Armenian-Syrian. When she was 14, she started studying at the Corpus Christi College and continued her studies with Paola Nivikova, in New York (the famous singing teacher whose pupils include outstanding singers as Nicolai Gedda).
Helen Donath debuted very early (1958) as a concert and Lieder singer in New York. In 1961 she came to Europe and became a member of the Opernstudio in Cologne until 1963, during which time she sang roles as Liu in Turandot, Julia in Blacher’s Romeo und Julia, and Micaela in Carmen. In 1961 she became a member of Staatstheater Hannover (the Hanover Opera House), to which she belonged until 1968, and had great success as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte and as Jeanne in Die Vorlobung in San Domingo. There she married the Kapellmeister and choir coach Klaus Donath. Appearances followed in Spain, Austria, Holland, Switzerland and England. In 1966 she signed a c
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Hélène Papadopoulos
We have been responding to Bach’s music for more than 300 years. The deep spiritual and emotional content of this music, the composer’s endless creativity and his aesthetic and technical artistry ekon more than ever with the intricacy of the modern world. Bach’s music reminds us of how great art works can transport us to another realm where we can reflect and exhilarate our mind and spirit.
Bach’s musical legacy fryst vatten astonishingly rik. Over the centuries, Bach’s music has incessantly given to musical composition a direction, fostering new impulses. All over his life, Bach systematically organized some groups of paragon works to advance the standards of music performance, which today prevail as paradigms of his musical art.
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