Philippe Huttenlocher (Bass)

Born: November 29, 1942 - Neuchâtel, Switzerland

The Swiss bass, Philippe Huttenlocher, studied first violin playing and received his diploma in 1963 at the Consevatory of Neuchâtel. He then trained his voice with Juliette Bise in Fribourg. In 1972 he won an international singing competition in Bratislava.

Philippe Huttenlocher became first a soloist in the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, then he had also artistic co-operation with the Choeurs de la Fondation Gulbenkian in Lisbon. With these two vocal ensembles he made his first recordings, whereby he was characterised particularly as a Bach interpreter. He had great international successes at the Festivals of Montreux, Lausanne and Strasbourg, at Bachwoche Ansbach (1975, 1977), at the Festival Weeks of Flanders and at the Festival de la Wallonie. In 1974 he undertook a tour in Japan, and 1978 found him partipating in the London Bach Festival. Finally he turned also to the opera singing and had his first big success in this area at the opera house of Zurich as a title role in Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1975). He made very successful appearances at the State Operas of Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, at Milan’s La Scala, and at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1987 he made guest appearance in Genova in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell and in Les malheurs d'Orphée by Darius Milhaud. At the same he continued his career as one the most important concert and above all oratorio singer of his generation. He is married with the soprano Danielle Borst (born 1946).

Philippe Huttenlocher made many recordings, especially of sacred music, among which on Telefunken (Bach Cantatas, Orfeo, L'Incoronazione di Poppea and Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria sua by Monteverdi), CBS (Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244), Le Devin du Village by J.J. Rousseau), RCA (The Seasons by Haydn, Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244) and B minor Mass (BWV 232) by J.S. Bach), CBS (Johannes-Passion (BWV 245) and Magnificat (BWV 243) by J.S. Bach), HMV (L'Enfant et les sortilèges by Ravel), above all however on Erato (Les Indes Galantes by Lully, Faust by Charles Gounod, W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Il Maestro di Capella by Cimarosa, Alcyone by Marin Marais, Pénélope by Gabriel Fauré, Johannes-Passion (BWV 245) and B minor Mass (BWV 232) by J.S. Bach, Dettinger Te Deum by George Frideric Handel, Stabat Mater by Haydn, works by Monteverdi, Carissimi, Charpentier, Gabrielli and Maurice Ravel), Claves (Songs by Purcell), Cascavelle (In terra pax by Frank Martin), Accent (Baroque vocal music), Virgin (Arlecchino by Ferruccio Busoni).

Sources:
Operissimo Website, English translation by Aryeh Oron (July 2001)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (July 2001)

Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Gerard Akkerhuis

Bass

BWV 182

Michel Corboz

Bass

BWV 11, BWV 58, BWV 78, BWV 187, BWV 198
BWV 232 [1^st], BWV 232 [2^nd], BWV 233-242, BWV 243 [1^st], BWV 244 [1^st], BWV 245 [1^st]

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Bass

BWV 82, BWV 94, BWV 95, BWV 96, BWV 97, BWV 99, BWV 101, BWV 102, BWV 104, BWV 115, BWV 116, BWV 120, BWV 121, BWV 122

Blanche Honegger Moyse

Bass

BWV 115 [1^st, early 1970's], BWV 131 [early 1970's],

Helmuth Rilling

Bass

BWV 1, BWV 3, BWV 8, BWV 14 [1984, 2^nd recording], BWV 16, BWV 25, BWV 26, BWV 29, BWV 30, BWV 33, BWV 37, BWV 38, BWV 42, BWV 43, BWV 45, BWV 47, BWV 49, BWV 60, BWV 62, BWV 64, BWV 66, BWV 68, BWV 71, BWV 74, BWV 79, BWV 80, BWV 89, BWV 92, BWV 97, BWV 100, BWV 108, BWV 111, BWV 116, BWV 123, BWV 129, BWV 133, BWV 135, BWV 138, BWV 139, BWV 140, BWV 149, BWV 157, BWV 158, BWV 159, BWV 175, BWV 182, BWV 185, BWV 186, BWV 197, BWV 198
[L-18] (1981, Video): BWV 71 [2^nd recording]
[L-19] (1983, Video): BWV 63 [2^nd recording]
[L-20] (Mid 1980's, Audio): BWV 4 [2^nd recording]
[CR-187] (Mid 1990's?, Radio recording): BWV 187 [2^nd recording]
BWV 243, BWV 244, BWV 245 [2nd, Jesus], BWV 249

Links to other Sites

Interpretes de la Fete de 1999 [French]
AMARCORDES - Artistes - Huttenlocher [French]