ALBUMSchubert: Unfinished and Great SymphonyB'Rock Orchestra, René Jacobs & Tobias Moretti
ALBUMBach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Robin Johannsen, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Helena Rasker, Sebastian Kohlhepp & Christian Immler
ALBUMWeber: Der FreischützRené Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Christian Immler, Polina Pastirchak, Kateryna Kasper, Maximilian Schmitt & Max Urlacher
ALBUMSchubert: Symphonies 4 & 5B'Rock Orchestra & René Jacobs
ALBUMBeethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs, Polina Pastirchak, Sophie Harmsen, Steve Davislim & Johannes Weisser
ALBUMBach: St. John Passion, BWV 245 (Johannes-Passion) [Deluxe Edition]RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & René Jacobs
ALBUMMozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K. 384RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & René Jacobs
ALBUMCavalieri: Rappresentatione di anima et di corpoRené Jacobs, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Johannes Weisser, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin
ALBUMMozart: Die Zauberflöte ((The Magic Flute): Famous ScenesAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs, RIAS Kammerchor, Marlis Petersen, Sunhae Im, Daniel Behle & Daniel Schmutzhard
ALBUMHandel: Orlando, HWV 31Bejun Mehta, Sophie Karthäuser, Kristina Hammarström, Sunhae Im, Konstantin Wolff, B'Rock Orchestra & René Jacobs
ALBUMChe Puro Ciel: The Rise of Classical OperaBejun Mehta, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & René Jacobs
ALBUMJ.S. Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (Matthäus-Passion)René Jacobs, RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
ALBUMPergolesi: Septem verba a ChristoAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin & René Jacobs
ALBUMMozart: La finta giardiniera, K. 196René Jacobs & Freiburger Barockorchester
ALBUMBach: Sacred AriasRené Jacobs, La Petite Bande, Gustav Leonhardt, Sigiswald Kuijken, Isabelle Poulenard, Christian Fliegner, Marcus Schäfer, Klaus Mertens & Tölzer Knabenchor
ALBUMBlow & Lawes: An Ode and English SongsRené Jacobs, Gustav Leonhardt, Toyohiko Satoh, Nobuko Yamamoto, Nelly van der Spek, James Bowman, Marius von Altena, Max van Egmond & Anner Bylsma
ALBUMSacred MusicRené Jacobs, Basler Madrigalisten, Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Brasiliensis, Fritz Näf, Gottfried Bach, Konrad Junghänel, Roel Dieltiens, Jean Tubéry, William Dongois, Karl-Ernst Schröder & Friederike Heumann
ALBUMZelenka: Magnificat & LamentiRené Jacobs, Instrumentalists of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Guy De Mey & Kurt Widmer
ALBUMHandel: AgrippinaRené Jacobs & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
ALBUMMozart: Die ZauberflöteRené Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Daniel Behle, Inga Kalna, Anna Grevelius, Isabelle Druet, Daniel Schmutzhard, Anna-Kristiina Kaappola, René Möller, Clemens-Maria Nuszbaumer, Christian Koch, Kurt Azesberger, Marlis Petersen, Alois Mühlbacher, Christoph Schlögl, Philipp Pötzlberger, Joachim Buhrmann, Konstantin Wolff, Marcos Fink, Sunhae Im & RIAS Kammerchor
ALBUMTelemann, G.P.: Cantatas and OdesAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs & Raphael Alpermann
ALBUMHaydn: Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons)Freiburger Barockorchester & René Jacobs
ALBUMMozart: Le nozze di FigaroCollegium Vocale Gent, Concerto Köln & René Jacobs
ALBUMHandel: Rinaldo, HWV 7aFreiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs & Vivica Genaux
ALBUMScarlatti: Griselda, Op. 114Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs, Lawrence Zazzo, Kobie Van Rensburg, Bernarda Fink, Veronica Cangemi, Dorothea Röschmann & Silvia Tro Santafé
ALBUMMonteverdi: Madrigali Guerrieri Ed Amorosi (Libro VIII)Concerto Vocale & René Jacobs
ALBUMArias for FarinelliVivica Genaux, René Jacobs & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
ALBUMArias for FarinelliAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs & Vivica Genaux
ALBUMGluck: Orfeo ed EuridiceRené Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester & RIAS Kammerchor
ALBUMPurcell: Dido & AeneasGerald Finley, Lynne Dawson, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, René Jacobs & Rosemary Joshua
ALBUMGluck: Orfeo Ed EuridiceRené Jacobs, Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande & Collegium Vocale Gent
ALBUMKeiser: CroesusRené Jacobs & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
ALBUMMozart: Così fan tutteConcerto Köln & René Jacobs
ALBUMBlow: Venus & AdonisRené Jacobs & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
ALBUMScarlatti: Il primo omicidioAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin & René Jacobs
ALBUMScarlatti : Passion selon Saint-JeanEnsemble Musica Polyphonica, Louis Devos, René Jacobs & Ludovic de San
ALBUMTelemann: OrpheusAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs & RIAS Kammerchor
ALBUMBach: Weihnachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio)René Jacobs, RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
ALBUMBach: MotetsAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs & RIAS Kammerchor
ALBUMCaldara: Maddalena ai piedi di CristoOrchestre de la Schola Cantorum Basiliensis & René Jacobs
ALBUMBach: Secular Cantatas, BWV 201, 205 & 213Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Andreas Scholl, René Jacobs & RIAS Kammerchor
ALBUMMonteverdi: Vespro della Beata VergineConcerto Vocale, Netherlands Chamber Choir & René Jacobs
ALBUMCavalli: La CalistoMaria Bayo, Marcello Lippi, Concerto Vocale & René Jacobs
ALBUMGrandi - Sacri ConcertiRené Jacobs
ALBUMVivaldi: Cantate Italiane - Bononcini: Cantate PastoraliRené Jacobs, Sigiswald Kuijken, Lucy van Dael, Wieland Kuijken, Alan Curtis & Robert Kohnen
ALBUMHandel: Giulio Cesare in EgittoRené Jacobs, Bernarda Fink, Jennifer Larmore, Barbara Schlick, Marianne Rorholm & Concert Köln
ALBUMHandel: Giulio Cesare (Excerpts)Barbara Schlick, Bernarda Fink, Concerto Köln, Jennifer Larmore & René Jacobs
ALBUMHandel: FlavioEnsemble 415 & René Jacobs
ALBUMSchütz: Weihnachts-Historie (Histoire de la Nativité)Concerto Vocale & René Jacobs
ALBUMMarenzio: Madrigaux à 5 et 6 VoixConcerto Vocale & René Jacobs
ALBUMBach: Cantatas for Solo AltoChiara Banchini, Ensemble 415 & René Jacobs
ALBUMCavalli: GiasoneConcerto Vocale & René Jacobs
ALBUMCarissimi: Duets & CantatasConcerto Vocale & René Jacobs
ALBUMCharpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres du Mercredy SainctConcerto Vocale & René Jacobs
ALBUMCavalli: XerseRené Jacobs
ALBUMGluck: Les ChinoisesRené Jacobs & Schola Cantorum
ALBUMSchütz: Italian MadrigalsConcerto Vocale & René Jacobs
ALBUMCavalli: XerseConcerto Vocale & René Jacobs
ALBUMCouperin: Leçons de ténèbresConcerto Vocale & René Jacobs
ALBUMMonteverdi & Frescobaldi: MadrigaliRené Jacobs, Marjanne Kweksilber, Marius Van Altena, Michiel Ten Houte De Lange, Floris Rommerts, Gustav Leonhardt, Montserrat Figueras, Nigel Rogers, Michael Schopper, Johann Sonnleitner, Hopkinson Smith & Käthi Gohl
ALBUMMonteverdi: Lamento d'AriannaConcerto Vocale, Helga Müller-Molinari & René Jacobs
ALBUMPergolesi: Stabat MaterConcerto Vocale, René Jacobs & Sebastian Hennig
ALBUMZelenka: Lamentationes Jeremiae ProphetasRené Jacobs, Kurt Widmer, Guy de May & Instrumentalisten der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
ALBUMCesti: OronteaConcerto Vocale, Helga Müller Molinari & René Jacobs
ALBUMCouperin: Leçons de TénèbresConcerto Vocale & René Jacobs
ALBUMRossi: Canzonette amorosiRené Jacobs, Rosmarie Hofmann, Kurt Widmer, Jos van Immerseel, Konrad Junghänel, Pere Ros & Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
ALBUMScarlatti: Passion Selon St. JeanRené Jacobs & Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
ALBUMScarlatti: St. John PassionRené Jacobs, Kurt Widmer, Graham Pushee, Basler Madrigalisten, Fritz Näf & Strings of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
ALBUMSchütz: Kleine Geistliche Konzerte & Symphoniae SacraeConcerto Vocale, René Jacobs & Sebastian Hennig
A Belgian conductor who combined new and old into groundbreaking Mozartean performance.
About René Jacobs
Artist Biography
Following the path of least resistance has never appealled to René Jacobs. His uncompromising pursuit of truth and meaning in the performance of music from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries holds no place for the safe, the routine or the expected. Born in Ghent in 1946, he cut his musical teeth as a chorister at the city’s medieval cathedral and developed invaluable skills for decoding ancient texts with university studies in classical philology. During the 1960s, he made his mark as a countertenor soloist with such postwar pioneers of the Early Music Movement as the professorial Gustav Leonhardt and Belgium’s Kuijken brothers, Sigiswald, Barthold and Wieland. His vibrant, edgy voice and feeling for the sweeping expressive gestures of music from the period 1600 to 1750 found an ideal home in the recording studio, leading him to contribute to benchmark albums of core Baroque works and the modern revival of practically unknown compositions by, among others, Frescobaldi, Cesti and Henri Dumont. In 1977, Jacobs formed Concerto Vocale, dedicated to the historically informed performance of Baroque music, singing with the group while simultaneously directing it in a series of revelatory recordings for Harmonia Mundi France. His often iconoclastic interpretations as a conductor combine a forensic attention to the sources with the courage to ditch modern performance conventions. Jacobs helped establish period-instrument orchestras as part of the mainstream of opera performance with regular appearances at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Berlin Staatsoper and Vienna’s Theater an der Wien, and drew close attention to this important work during his time as artistic director of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music (1996-2009). Jacobs’ best-selling recordings of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni, landmarks of a discography that comprises well over 250 albums, and revelatory accounts of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion delivered ear-opening insights into works that had been taken for granted for decades.
Hometown
Ghent, Belgium
Genre
Classical
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