Jan van der Crabben (Baritone)

Born: Belgium

The Belgian baritone, Jan van der Crabben, studied first piano with Aquiles delle Vigne at the Etterbeek Academy, and then transferred to the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, where his teachers included Louis Devos. He completed his studies there in 1989, graduating with a first prize and the highest distinction. In 1990 he continued his studies privately with Vera Rosza in London. Also that year he won prizes for the best Interpretation of a French Song and for Contemporary Music at the Concours International d'Oratorio et de Lied in Clermont-Ferrand.

Jan van der Crabben is active as a soloist both in Belgium and abroad and among the conductors with whom he has worked are Andrew Lawrence-King, Patrick Peire, Alexander Rahbari and Pierre Bartholomée. He has also appeared at numerous festivals, including the Festival de Chambord and the Flanders Festival, and has taken part in master-classes with Elio Battaglia, Bernhard Kruysen and Margaret Honig. In 1991 he created the title role in the world première of Lucien Posman’s opera Hercules Hoché. But his chief interests remain the oratorio and the German Lied. He has made several recordings of works by W.A. Mozart, J.S. Bach, George Frideric Handel, Fiocco, De Fesch, Schubert and Heinrich von Herzogenberg. In 1996 he was a semi-finalist in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.

Source: Liner notes to Deutsche Harmonia Mundi CD 05472-77528-2 (Cantatas BWV 9, BWV 94 & BWV 187, conducted by Kuijken, 2001)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (April 2001)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Jin Kim

Bass

Video: BWV 82

Sigiswald Kuijken

Bass

BWV 1, BWV 2, BWV 6, BWV 9 [1^st], BWV 9 [2^nd], BWV 10, BWV 11 [1^st, DVD], BWV 11 [2^nd], BWV 12 [1^st], BWV 13, BWV 16, BWV 18, BWV 20, BWV 23, BWV 27 [2^nd], BWV 34, BWV 36, BWV 44, BWV 47 [2^nd], BWV 52, BWV 57, BWV 60, BWV 61, BWV 62, BWV 65, BWV 67 [1^st], BWV 70, BWV 73, BWV 81, BWV 82, BWV 85 [1^st], BWV 86, BWV 91, BWV 93, BWV 94, BWV 96 [2^nd], BWV 102, BWV 108, BWV 116, BWV 122, BWV 129, BWV 132, BWV 134, BWV 135, BWV 138 [2^nd], BWV 140, BWV 144, BWV 151, BWV 153, BWV 154, BWV 168, BWV 173, BWV 177, BWV 178, BWV 182, BWV 184, BWV 186, BWV 187
[CV-2] (2009, Video): BWV 67 [2^nd recording], BWV 85 [2^nd recording], BWV 12 [2^nd recording]
Video/DVD (2009): BWV 138 [1^st], BWV 27 [1^st], BWV 47 [1^st], BWV 96 [1^st]
BWV 225-229, BWV 232 [1^st], BWV 232 [2^nd], BWV 244 [2^nd, 2009, Jesus & Bass I], BWV 248 [2^nd], BWV 249

Patrick Peire

Bass

BWV 233-236

Jacques Vanherenthals

Bass

BWV 5

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