Volle, Michael

Overview

Works:	481 works in 1,158 publications in 5 languages and 15,792 library holdings
Genres:	Live sound recordings Musical settings Operas Oratorios Requiems Holy Week music Songs and music Masses Songs Music
Roles:	Performer, Singer, Other, Vocalist, Author, Actor, bar, Musician, br=, bas, Contributor
Classifications:	M2000, 782.1

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works by Michael Volle

Der Traumgörge by Alexander von Zemlinsky( )

9 editions published between 2001 and 2010 in German and held by 430 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Messe As-Dur, D 678 = Mass in A flat major = Messe en la bémol majeur by Franz Schubert( )

8 editions published between 1997 and 2014 in Latin and German and held by 395 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Johannes-passion = St. John Passion : highlights by Johann Sebastian Bach( )

17 editions published in 2001 in German and Undetermined and held by 388 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The foundations of Marc Minkowski's career lie in Baroque music, and he has enjoyed a long relationship with Warner Classics, but this Johannes-Passion (St John Passion) is his first Bach for the label. The work's terse drama--here presented through just nine singers--is ideally suited to both his scrupulous musicianship and his keen sense of theatre. The French conductor describes Bach's great masterpieces as 'a journey you have to prepare for meticulously, over a long period of time. You come back from it like an explorer comes back from Everest or the moon--transformed'"--Warnerclassics.com

War requiem by Benjamin Britten( )

16 editions published between 1996 and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 377 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Public awareness of Benjamin Britten's person and works advanced dramatically -- even explosively -- twice during his lifetime. The first time was in 1945, when his opera Peter Grimes was produced for the postwar reopening of Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. The second time followed the premier at Coventry and the subsequent series of performances all across Europe and North America of the War Requiem. Except to those provincials who thought that milky pastoral was the only idiom appropriate for an Englishman and who also found the young Britten too clever by half, the triumph of Peter Grimes marked not just the confirmation of a prodigious talent; it represented a moment of hope that, for the first time since the death of Henry Purcell in 1695, England had produced a composer of international stature. The impact the War Requiem made 17 years later was wider and deeper by far. Britten, approaching 50, had become an artist whose every new utterance was awaited with the most lively interest and the highest expectations. The War Requiem, moreover, was tied to a pair of events that were heavily freighted with history and emotion: the destruction of Coventry Cathedral in an air raid during the night of November 14-15, 1940, and its reconsecration more than 21 years later. Its first performance was planned as an international event with respect both to participants and audience. Most importantly, the War Requiem was a weighty and poignant statement on the subject of piercingly urgent concern to much of humankind. In the War Requiem, Britten drew on forces larger and more complex than in any previous work of his. The basic division of the performers is into two groups, reflecting the dual source of the words; the libretto stands in a relation of text (the Latin Missa pro defunctis) and commentary (the nine Owen poems). The Latin text is essentially the province of the large mixed chorus, but from this there is spillover in two opposite directions: the solo soprano represents a heightening of the choral singing at its most emotional, while the boys' choir represents liturgy at its most distanced. The mixed chorus and solo soprano are accompanied by the full orchestra; the boys' choir, whose sound should be distant, is supported by an organ. All this constitutes one group. The other group consists of the tenor and baritone soloists, whose province is the series of Owen songs; they are accompanied by the chamber orchestra. - Program notes / Michael Steinberg

Lieder nach Gedichten von Ludwig Rellstab ; Schwanengesang : D 957 by Franz Schubert( )

7 editions published between 1999 and 2006 in German and held by 353 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sacred vocal works = Geistliche Vokalwerke = Œuvres vocales sacrées = Obras vocales sacras by Johann Sebastian Bach( )

8 editions published between 2000 and 2005 in German and held by 343 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Moses by Max Bruch( )

13 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in German and held by 343 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Moses: Oratorium für Soli, Chor und Orchester, op. 67. Text: Ludwig Spitta

Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner( )

9 editions published in 2015 in German and Undetermined and held by 316 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Under James Levine's thrilling direction the famous Met Orchestra is at its best in this first installment of Wagner's Ring cycle. From the dark, mysterious beginning in the depths of the Rhine River to the blazing end as the gods cross the rainbow bridge into their new home of Valhalla, this is a searing performance. James Morris is the commanding Wotan, the god who thinks he has everything under control, even as he unwittingly sows the seeds of his own destruction

Das Christelflein by Hans Pfitzner( )

6 editions published in 2005 in German and held by 310 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Des Simplicius Simplicissimus Jugend by Karl Amadeus Hartmann( )

9 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in German and held by 301 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The best of Britten by Benjamin Britten( )

3 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 299 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Born in Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, and wrote music in many genres

Songs by great conductors : Lieder by Petra Lang( )

8 editions published in 2008 in German and Undetermined and held by 291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dialogkantaten : BWV 32, 49 & 57 by Johann Sebastian Bach( )

7 editions published in 2018 in German and No Linguistic content and held by 288 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Orchestral songs = Orchesterlieder by Walter Braunfels( )

4 editions published in 2016 in German and held by 287 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn = [Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn] by Gustav Mahler( )

10 editions published in 2010 in 3 languages and held by 285 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Elias, op. 70 = Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy( )

3 editions published in 2011 in German and held by 283 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ein deutsches Requiem : Klavierfassung mit Pauken by Johannes Brahms( )

6 editions published in 2009 in German and Undetermined and held by 282 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ein Liederabend by Michael Volle( )

7 editions published in 2011 in German and held by 280 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Michael Volle : a portrait by Michael Volle( )

7 editions published between 2013 and 2014 in 5 languages and held by 280 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Enth.: Thus saith the lord. Deh vieni alla finestra / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. An Silvia / Franz Schubert. Vouchsafe, o lord. Finch'handal vino. Tutto è disposto ... Aprite un po' quegli occhi. Gruppe aus dem Tartarus. Erlkönig. Wie Todesahnung ... Oh, du mein holder Abendstern. Nein! Lasst ihn unenthüllt!. Wahn! Wahn! Überall Wahn!. Confutatis. O Carlo, ascolta. È sogno? O realtà?. Ehi!! Paggio! ... L'onore! Dunkelrote Rosen. Da geh ich zu Maxim

Liedertafel( )

8 editions published in 2004 in German and held by 279 WorldCat member libraries worldwide