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Alastair Miles is internationally recognised as one of the world’s leading basses, appearing regularly with acclaimed opera companies such as WNO, Glyndebourne, ENO and the Royal Opera, as well as with conductors such as Giulini, Harnoncourt, Muti, Rattle, Gergiev, Gardiner, Norrington, Davis and Dohnanyi. On this new recording he explores some gems of the Lieder repertoire from Hugo Wolf and Johannes Brahms, ably accompanied by pianist Marie-Nöelle Kendall.
ALASTAIR MILES
The bass Alastair Miles was born in Harrow and initially trained as an orchestral flautist at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After winning the prestigious Decca Kathleen Ferrier Prize at the Wigmore Hall in 1986, he quickly established himself as one of the most versatile and sought-after singers in the UK. Alastair appears regularly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and English National Opera, as well as Welsh National Opera, Opera North and Glyndebourne, where he won the John Christie Award in 1987. Abroad, he has enjoyed a close relationship with both the Wiener Staatsoper and the Bayerische Staatsoper, where he has performed major roles since 1997. Other appearances include La Scala Milan, The Metropolitan Opera New York, Netherlands Opera, Seville, San Francisco, La Bastille Paris, Teatro Real Madrid, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Salerno, Pesaro, Dijon, Lille and Liege. On the concert platform Alastair has appeared with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors: highlights include Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius and Handel’s Messiah with Sir Colin Davis and the LSO, Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethes Faust with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Michael Tilson-Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem with Christian Thielemann and the Dresden Staatskapelle, Daland in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer with Andris Nelsons and the CBSO, Sarastro in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Daniel Harding at the Lucerne Festival, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ for Robin Ticciati and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has a discography of over eighty recordings and enjoys a close relationship with the Opera Rara label, for whom he has sung on over a dozen CDs. As a recitalist, Alastair has performed at the Wigmore Hall, and at St John’s Smith Square with Roger Vignoles, with whom he also collaborated on volume four of Hyperion’s Complete Songs Of Richard Strauss series.
Prometheus
