Ingeborg Danz, active as both mezzo soprano and contralto, easily moves between the spheres of early music and conventional performance and offers compelling performances in a wide variety of repertory. She is perhaps most noted for her work in the fields of Baroque oratorio and art song. A native of Witten in Germany's industrial Ruhr Valley, she studied at first to be a music teacher. She excelled as a voice student, however, and went on forRead more further study with the famed German contralto Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Danz began her career with appearances as a lieder singer in the mid-'80s, retaining Almut Eckels as accompanist for many years after that. With Helmut Deutsch she released a disc of Brahms songs in 2008. Danz appeared on German operatic stages in the late '80s and has sung major Romantic vocal works such as Berlioz's Les nuits d'été and Mahler's symphonies with top orchestras. Among early music listeners she is familiar as a frequent collaborator with two of the field's most prominent conductors, Philippe Herreweghe and Helmuth Rilling; her work with Rilling has brought her before U.S. audiences frequently as part of the Oregon Bach Festival. Danz's Bach cantata recordings with Herreweghe have featured her in some of the composer's most difficult solo arias, and ClassicsToday.com reviewer David Hurwitz enthused that she "warbles her way through the impossibly florid opening aria of BWV 120 with the same instrumental aplomb as the oboe obbligato." Common to several strands of her career is Bach's Mass in B minor, of which she has given widely praised performances live and on recordings. Danz has frequently been featured as soloist on Rilling's large catalog of Bach recordings for the Haenssler label, and she has followed Herreweghe into late Romantic repertory with a recording of Bruckner's Mass No. 3 in F minor (the "Great"), released in 2008. Her tours have taken her across four continents. Read less
Label: Hänssler Classic
Catalog: 98008
Release Date: 04/30/2013
Number of Discs: 10
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach,
César Franck,
Benjamin Britten,
Franz Joseph Haydn
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Performer:
Juliane Banse,
Ingeborg Danz,
James Taylor,
Andreas Schmidt
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Conductor:
Helmuth Rilling
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Stuttgart Bach Collegium,
Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart,
Aurelius Boys Choir of Calw
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Label: Arthaus Musik
Catalog: 101676
Release Date: 03/26/2013
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Maria Espada,
Ingeborg Danz,
Mark Padmore,
Peter Harvey
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Conductor:
Iván Fischer
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
Netherlands Radio Choir
Label: Arthaus Musik
Catalog: 108075
Release Date: 03/26/2013
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Renate Arends,
Henk Neven,
Barbara Kozelj,
Mark Padmore
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Conductor:
Iván Fischer
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
Netherlands Radio Choir
Label: Hänssler Classic
Catalog: 98006
Release Date: 02/26/2013
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Antonín Dvorák
Performer:
Ingeborg Danz,
Marina Shaguch,
James Taylor,
Thomas Quasthoff
Conductor:
Helmuth Rilling
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra,
Oregon Bach Festival Chorus
Label: Hänssler Classic
Catalog: 98007
Release Date: 02/26/2013
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Franz Joseph Haydn
Performer:
Juliane Banse,
Ingeborg Danz,
Michael Schade,
Andreas Schmidt
Conductor:
Helmuth Rilling
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart
Label: Carus
Catalog: 83010
Release Date: 10/30/2012
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Traditional,
Wolfgang Gentner,
Hans Georg Pflüger,
Max Reger
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Performer:
Monika Mauch,
Hugh Sandilands,
Barbara Pfeifer,
Ingeborg Danz
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Conductor:
Frieder Bernius,
Kay Johannsen,
Marcus Creed,
Georg Christoph Biller
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Lords of the Chords,
Stuttgart Chamber Choir,
Ensemble 94
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Label: Rondeau Productions
Catalog: 403435
Release Date: 03/27/2012
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Ingeborg Danz,
Panito Iconomou,
Christoph Genz,
Martin Petzold
Conductor:
Georg Christoph Biller
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra,
Leipzig Thomaner Choir,
St. Thomas Men and Boy's Choir
Label: Pentatone
Catalog: 5186312
Release Date: 10/25/2011
Number of Discs: 5
Composer:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer:
Christiane Oelze,
Ingeborg Danz,
Christoph Strehl,
David Wilson-Johnson
Conductor:
Philippe Herreweghe
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Royal Flemish Philharmonic,
Ghent Collegium Vocale,
Accademia Chigiana Siena
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalog: 5908369
Release Date: 11/09/2010
Number of Discs: 3
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Peter Kooy,
Sibylla Rubens,
Christoph Prégardien,
Sarah Connolly
...
Conductor:
Philippe Herreweghe
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Collegium Vocale
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalog: 5908360
Release Date: 11/09/2010
Number of Discs: 3
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Howard Crook,
Barbara Schlick,
Peter Kooy,
Gérard Lesne
...
Conductor:
Philippe Herreweghe
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Chapelle Royale Paris,
Collegium Vocale
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Label: Ars Musici
Catalog: 232158
Release Date: 08/31/2010
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Antonín Dvorák
Performer:
Edgar Krapp,
Ingeborg Danz,
Christian Elsner,
Dorothea Röschmann
...
Conductor:
Wolfgang Schafer
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Frankfurt Kantorei
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalog: 5908363
Release Date: 05/11/2010
Number of Discs: 3
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Ingeborg Danz,
Carolyn Sampson,
Mark Padmore,
Peter Kooy
...
Conductor:
Philippe Herreweghe
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Ghent Collegium Vocale
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Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalog: 5908354
Release Date: 05/11/2010
Number of Discs: 3
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Peter Kooy,
Johannette Zomer,
Ingeborg Danz,
Jan Kobow
...
Conductor:
Philippe Herreweghe
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Ghent Collegium Vocale Orchestra,
Ghent Collegium Vocale
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Label: Pentatone
Catalog: 5186317
Release Date: 03/30/2010
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer:
David Wilson-Johnson,
Christoph Strehl,
Ingeborg Danz,
Christiane Oelze
Conductor:
Philippe Herreweghe
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Ghent Collegium Vocale,
Royal Flemish Philharmonic,
Accademia Chigiana Siena
Label: Glor Classics
Catalog: 8041
Release Date: 07/14/2009
Number of Discs: 2
Composer:
Franz Joseph Haydn
Performer:
Ingeborg Danz,
Eva Lind,
James Taylor,
Reinhard Hagen
Conductor:
Michael Gielen
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Baden-Baden Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Europa Chorakademie
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