ALBUMJohann Vesque von Püttlingen: Unerhört! Romantische Lieder: 09. Du bist wie eine Blume - SingleKlaus Mertens & Volodymyr Lavrynenko
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ALBUMJ.S. Bach: Dialog-KantatenMiriam Feuersinger, Klaus Mertens, Bachkantaten in Vorarlberg & Elisabeth Grummer
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ALBUMTelemann: Komm wieder, Herr, zu der Menge der Tausenden in Israel, TWV 2:12Die Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens, Klaus Mertens, Chor der Kölner Akademie, Julian Podger, Mauro Borgioni, Rahel Maas & Marian Dijkhuizen
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ALBUMDer Herr ist König: Baroque Bass CantatasKlaus Mertens, Accademia Daniel & Shalev Ad-El
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ALBUMAntonin Dvorák: Biblische Lieder (Josef Klicka: Orgelsonate fis-Moll)Klaus Mertens, Susanne Rohn, Josef Klicka & Antonín Dvořák
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ALBUMMozart: Requiem (a Version Completed By Robert D. Levin)Bachchor Mainz, L'Arpa Festante, Julia Kleiter, Klaus Mertens, Ralf Otto, Gerhild Romberger & Daniel Sans
ALBUMBernhard & Herwich: Baroque LiederHamburger Ratsmusik, Klaus Mertens, Simone Eckert, Michael Fuerst, Renate Gentz & Annegret Siedel
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ALBUMHandel: TheodoraKnut Schoch, Klaus Mertens, Junge Kantorei, Joachim Carlos Martini, Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Franz Vitzthum, Christina Wieland & Diana Schmid
ALBUMAntonín Dvorák – Biblische Lieder op. 99 in tschechischer Originalsprache / Josef Klicka – Sonate für Orgel fis-MollKlaus Mertens & Susanne Rohn
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ALBUMWilhelm Friedemann Bach: Kantaten IDorothee Mields, Gerhild Romberger, Georg Poplutz, Klaus Mertens, Bachchor Mainz, L'Arpa Festante & Ralf Otto
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ALBUMBach, J.S.: Christmas OratorioMonica Groop, Klaus Mertens, Frankfurt Vocal Ensemble, Ralf Otto, Ruth Ziesak, Christoph Prégardien & Concerto Cologne
ALBUMHandel, G.F.: Alexander's FeastKnut Schoch, Klaus Mertens, Junge Kantorei, Joachim Carlos Martini, Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra & Gerlinde Samann
ALBUMMendelssohn, Felix: St. Paul [Oratorio]Markus Brutscher, Klaus Mertens, Schlosskirche Weilburg Kantorei, Capella Weiburgensis, Dorothea Zimmermann & Sabine Goetz
ALBUMSchöpfungsmessen von Luigi Gatti und Joseph HaydnAnna Korondi, Annette Markert, Yves Saelens, Klaus Mertens, Dresdner Philharmonie, Dresdner Kreuzchor & Roderich Kreile
ALBUMBach, J.S.: Cantatas, Bwv 49, 58, 82Klaus Mertens, Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande & Nancy Argenta
ALBUMTelemann, G.P.: Cantatas - Twv 20:17-22Klaus Mertens, Ludger Rémy, Les Amis de Philippe & Maria Jonas
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ALBUMJohann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat in D-Dur (BWV 243) / Motetten BWV 225, BWV 227, BWV 229Windsbach Boys Choir, Prager Kammerorchester, Karl-Friedrich Beringer, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sibylla Rubens, Rebecca Martin, Markus Schäfer & Klaus Mertens
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About Klaus Mertens
Artist Biography
Bass-baritone Klaus Mertens is a leading singer of Baroque concert repertory, especially the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He has recorded nearly 100 of the cantatas and all the large choral works of the Leipzig master to great acclaim.
He was given singing lessons while in elementary school. His university studies were intended to prepare him for a career as a music teacher, and he worked as a schoolteacher for a time. But his developing vocal talents made it feasible to attempt a serious singing career. He embarked on additional voice training, teaching, and interpretation studies with Else Bischof-Bornes, Jakob Stämpfli, and Peter Massmann.
Mertens has established a major concert career and has made over 100 recordings. He has worked with leading interpreters in the early music/authentic performance school -- for example, Ton Koopman, with whom he participated in a complete set of the Bach cantatas, as well as René Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe, Sigiswald Kuijken, Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. With conductors such as Gerard Schwarz, Peter Schreier, Edo de Waart, Herbert Blomstedt, Iván Fischer, and Hans Vonk he has appeared in major orchestral concerts, including those with the Saint Louis, Chicago, and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestras, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam.
Since much of the activity in the early music field is associated with summer music festivals, he frequently appears at such venues as the Lucerne Festival, the BBC Proms, the Mostly Mozart Festival of New York, the Salzburg Festival, the Prague Spring, Bach-Tage Berlin, the Flanders Festival, the Oxford Handel Festival, and many others.
In common with many other early music specialists, Mertens also has an interest in major repertory of the 20th century, performing Hindemith's A Requiem for Those We Love and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, among other works. He has also received praise for his work in Mendelssohn's Elijah, the same composer's Paul, and other major Romantic concert works. He also is highly regarded as a lieder singer. Mertens has frequently appeared on European television and radio broadcast concerts.
Hometown
Kleve, Germany
Genre
Classical
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