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Swiss Tenor Felix Rienth at Navigli canals, Milan (Italy), december 2023
" Tenor Felix Rienth has an extremely beautiful timbre "
"KLASSIK HEUTE" (GERMANY)
"... a singer of real vocal beauty..."
"AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE " (USA)
"An excellent interpretation by tenor Felix Rienth, whose beautiful timbre reminds one of the legendary Anthony Rolfe Johnson..."
"CD COMPACT" (SPAIN)
SWISS TENOR FELIX RIENTH OPENED SPANISH BAROQUE FESTIVAL ALBACETE 2022
Tenor Felix Rienth opened famous spanish baroque music festival Albacete FEMUBA 2022 at Teatro Circo with swiss baroque ensemble LA TEMPESTA BASEL and his wife, recorder player Muriel Rochat Rienth. Spanish audience was enthusiastic about Rienth's performance, who sung neapolitan virtuoso solo cantatas.
Read here Felix Rienth's interview from TRIBUNA DE ALBACETE (21 january 2022):
And here LA TRIBUNA'S Review of Festival Concert:
"Baroque ensemble La Tempesta Basel, founded by Muriel Rochat Rienth, with the tenor Felix Rienth (...) opened the FEMUBA baroque festival..."
"...the audience was amazed about the beauty of the music and splendid performance..."
"A brillant opening concert of the festival"
LA TRIBUNA DE ALBACETE (SPAIN), 22 january 2022
Scarlatti's "Ardo è ver": Felix Rienth and Muriel Rochat Rienth (recorder), Mathieu Rouquié (cello), Norberto Broggini (harspsichord)
Impressions from opening concert: Swiss tenor Felix Rienth with LA TEMPESTA BASEL and recorder player Muriel Rochat Rienth
NEW: FELIX RIENTH'S LATEST CD WITH ITALIAN BAROQUE- AND GREAT REVIEWS:
„The beautiful voice of the swiss- spanish tenor Felix Rienth is perfect for the interpretation of these cantatas, paired with elegance and flexibility…
"SCHERZO"- Music Magazin, Madrid (Spain), april 2020
"Among the cantatas, the best is 'Pur Nel Sonno’ by Giovanni Fischietti (1692-1743) where there is nice expression and flexibility in the extended recitative section along with effective interplay between the recorder of Muriel Rochat Rienth and tenor Felix Rienth in the final Allegro..."
"...in other cantatas there are some fine passages from Rienth, such as the depiction of wind and sunlight in Scarlatti’s 'Ardo E Ver"..."
"AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE", USA, april 2020
In december 2019 appeared Felix Rient's latest CD, with varied neapolitan baroque Cantatas by Scarlatti, Sarro Hasse and a "world premiere recording" by Giavanni Fischietti, recorded with renowned baroque ensemble LA TEMPESTA BASEL. The CD is published by spanish label VANITAS , worldwide distributed by Challenge Records (Holland) and NAXOS of AMERICA.
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Look at Felix Rienth's latest release on NAXOS of AMERICA:
Soon available, Felix Rienth's latest release, september 2020:
Felix Rient's latest CD will appear september 2020, featuring Mauro Giuliani's Songs for tenor and guitar, an italian and german programm. The CD will be published by spanish label VANITAS, worldwide distributed by Challenge Records (Holland) and NAXOS of America.
of AMERICA
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The Seville Newspaper "DIARIO DE SEVILLA" (Spain) dedicating a long portrait of swiss tenor Felix Rienth
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Felix Rienth invited spring 2022 to spanish Baroque music festival FEMUBA at Albacete
Swiss tenor Felix Rienth and LA TEMPESTA BASEL are invited to renowned Albacete baroque music festival FEMUBA in Spain, spring 2022. Rienth will perform the neapolitan baroque cantatas he already recorded on his succesful CD "ECCO IL MOMENTO" published by VANITAS / NAXOS of America.
Next CD-recording: Felix Rienth invited to Santiago de Compostela, february 2020
Swiss tenor Felix Rienth is invited to Santiago de Compostela in february 2020 for his next CD recording with spanish ensemble RESONET, specialized in the original music of the famous cathedral. RESONET is directed by soprano Mercedes Hernández and lutenist Fernando Reyes.
ALSO AVAILABLE:
MADRID: - Felix Rienth's Telemann-CD elected among the
"10 best CDs of the month"
by spanish music magazine "RITMO"
G. Ph. Telemann: Tenor Cantatas
Felix Rienth & La Tempesta Basel
Muriel Rochat Rienth, recorder & direction
Enchiriadis EN 2038
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Link to NAXOS of America, News February 2014
"... a singer of real vocal beauty..."
"I don’t think I have encountered Rienth before, but I am impressed by the fullness and firm projection of his clear tenor voice, joined with excellent sensitivity to text values. "
"American Record Guide" (USA), august 2014
"Felix Rienth has a nicely resonant tenor that is capable of handling the various affects of the cantatas with ease. He has a good sense of the music’s phrases and contrasts necessary to outline the text."
"...it is certainly worthy of obtaining if you want an excellent performance of representative works..."
FANFARE Magazine, (USA), july 2014
".... I was very enthusiastic about his performances..."
"...I was particularly satisfied with his performance of the recitatives. That is not that easy..."
MusicWeb International (England), august 2014
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Click here to read the interview with Felix Rienth on spanish newspaper "Diario de Sevilla" (in spanish language)
You are listening:
Mendelssohn: "Die Liebende schreibt"
Felix Rienth, tenor - Ulrich Koella, piano
live recording, Lucerne, 1999
Also available on "La mà de Guido":
José Marín: Tonos humanos (baroque songs)
Felix Rienth, tenor
Manuel Vilas, baroque harp
"La mà de Guido" (Barcelona) LMG 2101
" ...I would highly recommend this disc..."
"Felix Rienth has a nicely resonant tenor voice, which is a good pairing with the harp. The playing of Manuel Vilas is flexible as far as the tempos go, and he brings out both the melodic lines and accompaniment with ease."
"Rienth’s nice and very live performance brings these songs about the human predicament alive."
FANFARE Magazine (USA), july 2014
"Felix Rienth and Manuel Vilas bring outstanding performances..."
" The Swiss tenor Felix Rienth, who also has Spanish roots and is fluent in Spanish does well..."
"I like his flexible singing and the way he deals with the various songs..."
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
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Also available on ENCHIRIADIS /NAXOS:
Johann Christoph Pepusch: Tenor Cantatas
Felix Rienth, tenor
La Tempesta Basel
Muriel Rochat Rienth, recorder & direction
Enchiriadis EN 2024,
distr. NAXOS
"This is one fine disc.."
FANFARE Magazine (USA), july 2014
"This is altogether a most enjoyable recording"
Early Music Review (England), February 2009
"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
"The La Tempesta ensemble from Basel is led by recorder player Muriel Rienth, who performs with clarity and a good sense of phrasing. She blends with the voice, her husband Felix Rienth, so that the two form an inseparable duo."
"Felix Rienth has a light and flexible tenor, always on pitch and giving the music much in the way of fine nuance, making Pepusch come alive."
"This is one fine disc, and not only does Pepusch need to be resurrected beyond the The Beggar’s Opera, this performance does his competent and interesting music full justice."
FANFARE Magazine (New York / USA), july 2014
"…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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Felix Rienth's third CD with LA TEMPESTA BASEL recorded in autumn 2017 for VANITAS RECORDS
Felix Rienth recorded his third album with swiss baroque ensemble LA TEMPESTA BASEL, after his successful CDs by Pepusch and Telemann, presenting an italian baroque repertory, featuring Cantatas by Scarlatti, Hasse and Sarro. This coming CD, untitled "Barocco napolitano" is Felix Rienth's first work for spanish label VANITAS RECORDS and pursues the tenor's discography whith more than 20 CDs. LA TEMPESTA BASEL is conducted by recorder player Muriel Rochat Rienth. CD to be published in 2018 and worldwide distributed by Challenge Records (Holland).
Swiss tenor Felix Rienth and his wife, recorder player Muriel Rochat Rienth
Tenor Felix Rienth succesful at italian festival, august 2018
Tenor Felix Rienth was invited at the 33rd Festival " Musica Antica a Magnano" (Italy) with his "Trio Felix Rienth", with recorder player and wife Muriel Rochat Rienth and spanish harpsichord player Andrés Alberto Gõmez, presenting an entire Händel programme. The Magnano Festival between Milan and Torino is among the most important ancient music festivals in Europe, featuring also musicians such as Gustav Leonhardt, Wieland Kuijken, Montserrat Figueras, Emma Kirkby.
Felix Rienth with LA TEMPESTA BASEL in Brugg (Switzerland), september 2018
Tenor Felix Rienth performed the italian baroque programme from Naples with LA TEMPESTA BASEL , featuring Muriel Rochat Rienth (recorder) and Norberto Broggini (harpsichord). This programme was recorded 2017 for VANITAS, to be published 2018/19
Presentation of tenor Felix Rienth at the first spanish international early music fair "FEIMA 2016" in Murcia
Tenor Felix Rienth presented october 2016 at the first spanish Early Music Fair "FEIMA 2016" in Murcia a selection of Händel's "German Arias", performing with his wife, recorder player Muriel Rochat Rienth and harpsichordist Andrés Alberto Gómez. The Handel Airs will be recorded for spanish label VANITAS in 2018.
Tenor Felix Rienth featuring at "I. Albacete Baroque Music Festival" (Spain) , April 2016
Tenor Felix Rienth gave a highly successful concert with renowned spanish baroque ensemble LA REVERENCIA and soprano Paloma Gallego. In Albacte's traditional "Teatro Circo", the enthusiastic spanish audience listened to airs and duettos by Händel and Steffani.
Felix Rienth will record Händel's "German Airs" with LA REVERENCIA ensemble in 2018.
Listen to part of the concert,
Live recording from Teatro Circo, Albacete (Spain), 10 april 2016
Felix Rienth & LA REVERENCIA
Händel: Air "Künft'ger Zeiten , eitler Kummer"
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- Tenor Felix Rienth invited as an interview-guest in 2014 and 2015 to "Radio Nacional de España"...
...and german Radio SWR Stuttgart showing Rienth's Telemann-CD
Radio talker Jesús Trujillo with tenor Felix Rienth in Madrid Studio of Spanish National Radio
Listen to the complete radio-show, click here! (in spanish language)
Felix Rienth & spanish ensemble LA REVERENCIA starting artistic cooperation
Tenor Felix Rienth will begin a new cooperation with spanish renowned ensemble LA REVERENCIA, conducted by harpsichord player Andrés Alberto Gómez. First project will be the CD-recording of Händel's "German Arias" for spanish label VANITAS in 2018.
Link to the CD-label VANITAS, click here!
Felix Rienth's Telemann-CD with great critical acclaim in US- and UK-magazines
Telemann's "Tenor Cantatas" by Felix Rienth & La Tempesta Basel earned successful critics in two important US- magazines 2014, such as in "FANFARE" and in "AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE". British "MusicWeb international" also published a fine review about Rienth's CD:
"Four cantatas from this series, all for “high” voice, recorder, and continuo, are included on this disc, which is the third to feature tenor Felix Rienth, and his second collaboration with his wife, recorder player Muriel Rochat Rienth."
"Felix Rienth has a nicely resonant tenor that is capable of handling the various affects of the cantatas with ease. He has a good sense of the music’s phrases and contrasts necessary to outline the text."
"...a fine disc..."
"...is certainly worthy of obtaining if you want an excellent performance of representative works."
FANFARE Magazine (New York / USA), august 2014
"A further parallel between the two discs is that each presents a singer of real vocal beauty and distinct artistic sensitivies."
"I don’t think I have encountered Rienth before, but I am impressed by the fullness and firm projection of his clear tenor voice, joined with excellent sensitivity to text values. "
"American Record Guide" (Cincinnati /USA), august 2014
"The cantatas on the present disc are for high voice which can either be a soprano or a tenor. In this case we hear the Swiss tenor Felix Rienth. Not long ago I reviewed a recording of Spanish songs and I was very enthusiastic about his performances. Here again he shows his qualities, especially in the interpretation of the text. I was particularly satisfied with his performance of the recitatives. That is not that easy, considering their length; apart from the basso continuo the singer is all on his own. He takes the right amount of rhythmic freedom in the interest of expression, and adopts the right accents. He also sings well in the arias..."
"That said, this is a disc which Telemann aficionados will certainly like to have. It is an attractive programme of vocal and instrumental music, and the cantatas in particular are not that familiar. The way their text is interpreted is one of its main assets."
MusicWeb International (Coventry / England), august 2014
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
Mahler's "Song of the earth" in Palma de Mallorca (Spain)
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