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Soprano Marjanne Kweksilber was born in 1944. Here repertoire
stretches out from renaissance and baroque up to and including
the 20th-century music. She made her opera debut in 1977 in the
premier of the opera Axel by Reinbert de Leeuw and Jos van Vlijmen.
Later she sang also as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte
(The magic flute). She performed works of among others of Satie,
Messiaen, Zemlinsky, Schreker, Berg, Webern and Hindemith. She
made numerous appearances with the Schönberg Ensemble
and in festivals within the country and abroad. Later she also
gave singing lessons.
- She made recordings for the Dutch label Harlekijn. In 1977
she recorded together with Reinbert de Leeuw melodies by Satie,
Harlekijn 2925.517.
Luister (Dutch equivalent of Gramophone) wrote, May 1977: "
... it is possibly not to much to say that Marjanne Kwelsilber
carried away by a kind of De Leeuw-trance, but for me it is established
that the singer these Satie-melodies not had sung that way, when
De Leeuw wasn't at the piano. Complete from the text, without
pose, with putting aside vocalist manors and complete in the
ban of Satie's unreal art, that in the major of his melodies
is yet more rare and fragile than in the piano works ..."
J.S.
For Marjanne Kweksilber this Satie-recording was her recording
debut. For her music means a kind of liberation. Marjanne: "Therefore
I need it so much. You can name it an escape, but I call it a
way of communication". She says to recognize in Satie much
from her own live. „Yes, a kind of modest passion, the loneliness
and irony, compassion and distance".
The singer, who later also gave singing lessons, was married
with the pianist Ludwig Olshansky. Her son David is a well known
clarinet player and her daughter Isadora Olshansky is a singer
in the more lighter genre. Marjanne Kweksilber died on 12 May
2008 in her hometown Amsterdam in consequence of leukemia. |
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- For the label 'Accent' - ACC 4822324. 1982 - she made a complete
recording of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, together with 'La Petite
Bande' and René Jacobs (Orfeo), Magdalena Falewicz (Amor),
under Sigiswald Kuijken.
- For 'Das Alte Werk Reference', she sang in Bach: Cantatas,
Vol.14
Other artist: Seppi Kronwitter (Treble/boy soprano); Paul Esswood
(Alto); Kurt Equiluz (Tenor); Michael Schopper (Bass)
Orchestra(s) / Ensemble(s) 'Leonhardt Consort Orchestra', 'Hannover
Boys' Choir'.
- With the Groningse Bachvereniging she made a live
recording of Bach's Johannes Passion in March 1979. De roles
were sung by Marius van Altena (evangelist), Max van Egmond (Jezus),
Marjanne Kweksilber (soprano), Charles Brett (altus), Harry Geraerts
(tenor) and Harry van der Kamp (bass). The whole under direction
of Johan van der Meer.
- Donemus CV 87 (released in 2000) Kamermuziek (Chamber music)
(1980-1995) by Jeff Hamburg. Marjanne Kweksilber, soprano; Eleonore
Pameijer, flute; Angel Gimeno, violin; Doris Hochscheid, cello;
Frans van Ruth, piano; recorded in 1996.
- Channel Classics CCS 7995 (released in 1995) “Modern
Times. Dutch Jewish Composers” : Rosy Wertheim 1888-1952.
Trois Morceaux for flute and piano (1939), Sonatine for cello
and piano (ca. 1920, manuscript) and Trois Chansons for voice,
flute and piano (1939). Ignace Lilien 1897-1964. Modern Times
Sonata for violin and piano (1935). Leo Smit 1900-1943. Sonate
for flute and piano (1943) and Deux Hommages for piano (1928,
1930). Marjanne Kweksilber, soprano; Eleonore Pameijer, flute;
Marijke van Kooten, violin; Doris Hochscheid, cello; Frans van
Ruth, piano; recorded in 1995.
 Alban Berg, from 4 Jugendlieder: Fraue,
du Süsse , VARA, 1980
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