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Felix Rienth with Her Majesty, Queen Fabiola of Belgium after his concert at the "International Sacred Music Festival "King Baudoin of Belgium" in Motril /Granada (Spain), September 2008
Mendelssohn's "Paulus" (Oratorio) at the Cathedral of Noyon (France), september 2009
New CD since June 2011:
"Felix Rienth and Manuel Vilas bring outstanding performances..."
Online-Magazine for Ancient music "Musica dei donum" (Utrecht / NL), November 2011
"I really like the presentation. Truly lovely."
American Record Guide (USA) , May 2012
Published
by "La mà de Guido" (Barcelona)
LMG 2101
Worldwide distributed
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Johann Christoph Pepusch:
Tenor Cantatas
Felix Rienth, tenor
La Tempesta Basel
Muriel Rochat Rienth, recorder & direction
Enchiriadis EN 2024
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Press Reviews to the Pepusch-CD:
"An excellent interpretation by tenor Felix Rienth, whose beautiful timbre, paired with great technical ability, reminds one of the legendary Anthony Rolfe Johnson."
CD magazine "CD Compact" (Barcelona), 12/2008
"This is altogether a most enjoyable recording"
Early Music Review (GB), February 2009
"…and has raised the bar very high, thanks to the interpretational qualities in the vocal parts with the beautiful and stylistically confident voice of tenor Felix Rienth…"
Musical journal "Scherzo" (Madrid), 12/2008
"…on the present CD, which is the recording premiere of the baroque ensemble La Tempesta Basel, Swiss-Spanish tenor Felix Rienth sings four of Pepusch’s English cantatas with admirable confidence and taste."
Diario de Sevilla (Seville Newspaper), 2008
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BIOGRAPHY
Felix Rienth, tenor
The Swiss-Spanish tenor Felix Rienth (born in Basle/CH) received his first musical education in Knabenkantorei of Basle (Basle Boys' Choir). He began to appear as soloist in the Magic Flute by Mozart as "First boy" with the Opera of Basle under the direction of Armin Jordan. After his maturity, he studied Spanish and German at the University of Basle before being devoted entirely to singing at Heidi Wölnerhanssen (Basle). In 2000 he obtained the diploma of opera from the "Swiss Opera Studio" of the Berne "Hochschule der Künste". Following that he particpated in master-classes at the Festival of Lucerne with Barbara Schlick and Peter Schreier. Promoted by the Young Artists' Foundation in Lucerne, he gave a concert of operatic arias with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra.
Felix Rienth has appeared in Switzerland, France, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Holland, Austria, Portugal the Czech Republic and Greece in oratorios such as "Saint John Passion" by Bach, "The Messiah" by Händel, "Eliah" by Mendelssohn, "The Paradise and Perished" by Schumann, "Requiem" by Dvorak, "Stabat mater" by Rossini. In recent years he was invited to the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, the Graz Symphony Hall, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Geneva Victoria Hall, the Basle Musiksaal. He sang at different European Festivals like Paris, Ambronay, Granada, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Porto, Ghent, Peñíscola, Fribourg and performed with Eduardo López Banzo and Gabriel Garrido. Felix Rienth also recorded several CDs on the labels K617, Symphonia, Ricercar, OehmsClassics and Enchiriadis. His recording of Francesc Valls' Solo Cantatas was awarded the "Prelude Classical Music Award 2007" in Holland for the best baroque release of the year. Ruimonte's "Parnaso español" (spanish madrigals in solo version) received the "Diapason d'or" in France. With baroque ensemble LA TEMPESTA BASEL he published in 2009 the tenor cantatas by J.C. Pepusch on Enchiriadis, where Felix Rienth was comparred by Music magazine "CD compact" (Barcelona) to the legendary tenor Anthony Rolfe Johnson.
Recent projects included concerts with the Suisse Romande Orchestra, the basel sinfonietta and recitals in Spain (Valencia, Ronda/Málaga) as well as Haydn's "Creation" with the Constance Philharmonic Orchestra, the "Messiah" in Munich and "Eliah" in Fürstenfeldbruck (Bavaria). He performed at the WorldExpo 2008 in Zaragoza with spanish baroque ensemble "Resonet"and in Palma de Mallorca Mahler's "Lied von der Erde" with the Chamber ensemble of the City of Palma de Mallorca Symphony Orchestra. Future projects include Mendelssohn's "Paulus" in Geneva and Paris, Mendelssohn's "Lobgesang" at the "Métropole" Lausanne, Händel's "Acis and Galatea" with the Granada Baroque Orchestra in Spain, Dvorak's "Stabat Mater" in Zurich, Bach's "St Matthew Passion" in Dusseldorf, as well as Bach's "Christmas-Oratorio" with the Basle Boys' Choir. With LA TEMPESTA BASEL he will record the "Harmonischer Gottesdienst" by Telemann, with spanish ensemble "Resonet" a CD in Santiago de Compostela.
In 2008 Felix Rienth gave a baroque recital in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Fabiola of Belgium at the "Festival of sacred Music" in Motril/Granada (Spain). In 2012 Felix Rienth is invited to a concert series with Bach's "St John Passion" in Amsterdam, Haarlem, Utrecht and Innsbruck (Austria) with the "Orchestra of the 18th Century", conducted by Frans Brüggen.
NEWS:
-Felix Rienth has performed in october 2008 "Das Lied von der Erde" by Mahler in Palma de Mallorca with the "Camerata Sa Nostra" of the City of Palma de Mallorca Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Joan Grimalt
-Felix Rienth invited to "Festival de Sablé" /Nantes (France) with "A corte musical", 2009
-Concert at the Festival of ancient music in Sagunto/Valencia (Spain), 2009
-Mendelssohn's "Paulus" in Geneva (Cathedral) and Paris, september 2009
Felix Rienth invited to Händel's "Acis and Galatea" with the Granada Baroque Orchestra in Ronda /Málaga (Spain)
- Mendelssohn's "Lobgesang" in Lausanne, "Métropole" Symphony Hall, november 2009
- Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" with the Basle Boys' Choir and "Capriccio Basel", december 2009
- CD Pepusch with Felix Rienth and LA TEMPESTA BASEL was presented by Dutch Radio "Concertzender" (Hilversum), Belgian Radio "Klara" (Brussels), Swiss German Radio DRS 2 and Radio Bremen (Germany)
-Felix Rienth appeared at the WorldExpo 2008 in Zaragoza with baroque ensemble "Resonet"
-CD recordings 2009: Telemann's"Harmonischer Gottesdienst" with LA TEMPESTA BASEL for Enchiriadis, Portuguese Music with "A corte musical" for K617
CD-recording with spanisch ensemble RESONET in Santiago de Compostela, October 2009
-CD: Marin's "Tonos humanos" for tenor and harp with harpist Manuel Vilas, will be published in 2009
-Austrian composer Viktor Fortin has created a new cantata for Felix Rienth and LA TEMPESTA BASEL (conducted by Muriel Rochat Rienth), first performance at Lausanne, mai 2008, live broadcasted by Swiss French Radio Company
- "Stabat mater" and "Missa" by Lachner released on OehmsClassics, 2008
PRESS REVIEW:
"…Tenor soloist Felix Rienth found the right mixture of metallic brilliance and earthy substance."
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich), "Eliah" by Mendelssohn
"Felix Rienth has a wunderful warm voice"
"His performance was excellent "
Basler Zeitung, "Paulus" by Mendelssohn
"The tenor Felix Rienth was highly convincing by his brilliant technique and musical intentions..."
Mittelland-Zeitung, "The Messiah" by Händel
"Last but not least the tenor Felix Rienth as Evangelist, with his perfect musical style and an ideal voice"
La Presse (Lausanne), "Christmas Oratorio" by Bach