Boston
The solo tenor parts were
exceptionally well sung by Edmund Brownless - everything he did was
stylish, believable, affecting, ...
The Boston Globe
Chicago
Edmund Brownless delivered the
narration with tremendous drama and charisma, and his enunciation of
the old French dialects was nearly musical in itself. The translation
contained in the program, ... was practically superfluous, so
vivid was Brownless' reading.
Chicago Tribune
Frankfurt
Das einfache Rezitativ erhielt so eine
tiefe Innigkeit und Expressivität, die nicht auf Virtuosität
beruht, sondern auf größtmöglicher
Verständlichkeit des Evangelientextes. Auf diese Weise gelang es
Brownless, auch
die Schattenseiten der Weihnachtsgeschichte plastisch herauszuarbeiten
wie in seinem mitreißenden Vortrag von der Kindertötung zu
Bethlehem.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"Ein Genuss eigener Art war der Sprecher Edmund Brownless"
Frankfurter Neue Presse
Halifax
... unabashed savoring of the language ...
The Chronicle-Herald
"A lyric tenor by trade and by gift, Brownless brings a versatile and
flexible instrument to the stage. His range is broad, and he appears to
enjoy what freedom of expression that gives him. Probably a hundred
times last night he changed character and created variety, and more
than anything else about the performance, this sold a 20th century
audience to a 17th art."
The Chronicle-Herald
"Brownless's light, effortless tenor, gliding smoothly from chest to
head voice and back again, and his pleasant resonance, fit the
repertoire of songs by Handel, Rousseau, Gluck, and Haydn like an
elegantly tailored suit of clothes."
Stephen Pederson in The Chronicle-Herald
Köln / Cologne
Edmund Brownless, in den raschen
Tenorarien sehr sicher, gestaltete den Evangelisten ohne Scheu vor
Emotion und Emphase überzeugend.
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
Deutlich und klar in der Diktion,
engagiert und einfühlsam in der Gestaltung, so entstand ein
Passionsgeschehen in den Rezitativen, in das Chor, Instrumente und die
anderen Solisten zwangsläufig mit hineingenommen wurden. Sicher
einer der Höhepunkte des Abends die Tenorarie "Holdselige Worte,
süßes Versprechen".
Rheinischer Anzeiger
Bewundernswert Edmund
Brownless minutiöse Ausdeutung der Texte, die reichen
Schattierungen und Abstufungen in der Tongebung und die klaren
schlichten Melodiebögen.
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
... gesanglich perfekt und mit
beeindruckendem theatralischem Gespür ...
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
London
... the quality of the voices
is attractive - high-tenor notes from Edmund Brownless are often
beautifully placed ...
Gramophone
Sequentia's way with this
music is enormously impressive ... With their collaborators, the
fiddler Laura Jeppesen and the singer Edmund Brownless, they have
evolved an ethos for this music which is highly rhetorical,
...
The Observer
Montréal
... Edmund Brownless was
perfectly suited to the role of the Evangelist, and it was he who
enunciated his German with the greatest clarity.
The Montreal Gazette
... excellent (et irremplaçable!)
La Presse
Toronto
Forcefully and dramatically, he
set himself to what would seem the self-evident task of any evangelist:
to tell the tale. Brownless did this with the inflections of
a good rhetorician, and a good sense of the emotional value of vocal
coloring.
The Globe
and Mail
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