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Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917270921 |
Catalogue number CC 72709 |
Release date 06 May 2016 |
""Muuse and Van Weers took up the challenge and they do so with taste, courage and confidence.""
, 01-9-2016The Dutch baritone Robbert Muuse is a sought after singer, for both the concert and the operatic repertoire. As a Lieder-singer he has won several prizes. He has performed many different operatic roles, concert works and oratorios, singing works from the baroque era to modern music. He sang in concert halls throughout Europe, the U.S.A. and in Israel, and has worked with internationally acclaimed conductors. Muuse made recordings on cd, dvd (opera), international radio and television. He takes a special interest in the song repertoire and has a long professional partnership with and is married to pianist Micha van Weers. Together they have performed many song recitals. Robbert Muuse received his vocal and operatic training in Maastricht, the Opera Academy of Karlsruhe, Germany and the Mozarteum Salzburg, and private coaching in London.
Micha van Weers is a Dutch pianist who has won several awards, such as the Audience Prize and the Special RAI-Prize at the Int. Seghizzi Song Competition in Italy; the MeesPierson Award in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, as a duo with baritone Robbert Muuse.
Micha van Weers has performed in many concert halls in the Netherlands, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, in Germany, France (Paris), Prague and Salzburg. She has accompanied many different singers and instrumentalists, and made several recordings for radio, television and CD. Beside chamber music, she has a special fondness of playing Lieder. She has been working with baritone Robbert Muuse since their encounter in 1994. Micha van Weers studied piano in Maastricht with Tilly Keessen and Tonie Ehlen. For interpreting 20th-century Czech piano repertoire, she studied in Prague with pianist František Maxián. Furthermore she specialized in song accompaniment, in Stuttgart with Konrad Richter, with Hartmut Höll at the Mozarteum Salzburg and private studies with Julius Drake in London.
Besides the familiar, well-known repertoire, Robbert Muuse and Micha van Weers challenge themselves to continuously explore the field of unknown or forgotten works, or even songs that were at some time in history forbidden, but which they deem worthy to be re-discovered and performed as new. In 2011 they collected and (premiere) recorded for Challenge Classics a selection of songs by British composer Cyril Scott (“Songs of Quest and Inspiration”). Also they regularly perform music from Jewish composers who were persecuted during the Second World War.
"Muuse and Van Weers took up the challenge and they do so with taste, courage and confidence."
, 01-9-2016
''When listening to this recital, you are automatically hoping for a follow-up album. Robbert, Micha and Challenge: please go for it!''
De Gelderlander, 02-7-2016
"Bariton Robbert Muuse and pianiste Micha van Weers regret and try to educate the ignorant croud. That is very appreciated."
, 26-5-2016
... There is undoubtedly much to discover in this work. With this recording, Robbert Muuse and Micha van Weers have opened a door, behind which some treasure is slumbering. Great!
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