News Archive 2001

12-11-2001 In the Wall Street Journal of November 9: A German Bass-Baritone Soothes New York (about the Carnegie Hall season opener)
19-10-2001 Deutsche Grammophon has announced that Quasthoff has recorded arias and duets (with Christiane Oelze) from German romantic operas with Christian Thielemann conducting. The selections are taken from Zar und Zimmermann, Wildschütz, Euryante, Tannhäuser, Die Frau ohne Schatten, ... The release is scheduled for February 2002.
16-10-2001 The Deutsche Phono-Akademie has distributed the yearly Echo Klassik awards (comparable to the Grammy's). The prize for the best Lied recording was awarded to the Schubert/Brahms recording.
7-10-2001 Here's another report of the Carnegie Hall season opener, by Ann Partridge
4-10-2001 October 3, Thomas Quasthoff sang Mahler's Wunderhorn-Lieder at Carnegie Hall's Opening Night. Janet Wasserman reports.
29-9-2001 Melanie Eskenazi reviews Quasthoff's latest recording (Schwanengesang/Vier ernste Gesänge); you find it at the Classical Music Web.
26-9-2001 The Berliner Morgenpost reviews the concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Claudio Abbado in Berlin (in German).
24-9-2001 Thomas Quasthoff gave two recitals at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. Melanie Eskenazi reports:
10-8-2001 The schedule has been updated with performances until the end of 2002.
7-8-2001 On his latest recording, Thomas Quasthoff sings Schubert's Schwanengesang and Brahms' Vier ernste Gesänge. You find a review in the Guardian of August 3.
25-4-2001 Thomas Quasthoff, Sibylla Rubens and Justus Zeyen are touring Germany with Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch. Here are two reviews (in German) from their performance in Berlin:
12-3-2001 Review: Quasthoff takes Manhattan