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Jan Kobow
12+ albums
Classicaltenorliedergerman20th Century
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Jan Kobow (born 1966) is a German classical tenor in concert, Lied and Baroque opera. He was born and raised in Berlin. He was a singer and soloist of the Staats- und Domchor, Berlin with Christian Grube. He studied the organ at the Schola Cantorum in Paris and graduated in church music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in 1994. He continued to study singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Sabine Kirchner, graduating in 1999. In the field of historically informed performance he has worked with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and took part in the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage of John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir. In 2002 he recorded several cantatas for Pentecost of Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, conducted by Ludger Rémy, with one voice per part, the four soloists forming the choir. In 2003 he recorded Bach cantatas with Philippe Herreweghe and the Collegium Vocale Gent, Johannette Zomer, Ingeborg Danz and Peter Kooy, including Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV 2, written for the second Sunday after Trinity of 1724. In 2007 he recorded more Bach cantatas with Herreweghe, Dorothee Mields, Matthew White and Peter Kooy. In 2007 he performed with Herreweghe the tenor arias of Bach's St John Passion in Alice Tully Hall. In 2008 he sang the part of the Evangelist in an arrangement of this passion by Robert Schumann. A review states: "Jan Kobow’s rendition of the evangelist’s role is brilliant—compellingly dramatic and wonderfully fluent, and the ease o
top songs
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Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 11, SWV369-397: Die Mit Tranen Saen, SWV378
1002Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland, Bwv 62: Aria: Bewundert, O Menschen, Dies Grosse Geheimnis (Tenor)
483Ich hab in Gottes Herz und Sinn, BWV 92: Chorale: Soll ich denn auch des Todes Weg (Chorus)
384Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36: Aria: Auch mit gedampften, schwachen Stimmen (Soprano)
295Winterreise, Op. 89, D. 911: No. 1. Gute Nacht
296Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36: Chorale: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Soprano, Alto)
277Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36: Chorale: Zwingt die Saiten in Cythara (Chorus)
268Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland, Bwv 61: Overture - Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland (Chorus)
269Book of Songs, Book 2: Flow, my tears, fall from your springs
2510Part I: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed (Chorus)
25albums
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Bach, J.S.: Cantatas, Vol. 13
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John Dowland & His Contemporaries: Come Again
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Discover Choral Music
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Schubert, F.: Lied Edition 30 - Poets of Sensibility, Vol. 6
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Handel, G.F.: Messiah
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Schubert: Winterreise
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Mozart: Die Freimaurermusiken
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Dowland & His Contemporaries: Come Again
Telemann and the Leipzig Opera: Popular Arias from the Collection Musicalische Ruskammer
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Mendelssohn, Felix: Church Music, Vol. 4 - Psalm 114 / Psalm 42 / Lauda Sion
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Easter Oratorio - Danket dem Herren
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Telemann: Der Messias / Septet in A Minor / Quintet in F Major / Quartet in E Flat Major