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Andreas Scholl |
"In the three Handel solo
cantatas – all about the
ecstasies and the agonies
of love – Scholl was
storyteller supreme, daring
his audience to stay fully
engaged for every
compelling second"
Hilary Finch, The Times,
June 13 2006
Andreas Scholl has
released a series of
extraordinary solo
recordings. Heroes,
a disc of arias by Handel,
Mozart, Hasse and Gluck;
Robert Dowland's A
Musicall Banquet; Vivaldi
Motets with the Australian
Brandenburg Orchestra;
Wayfaring Stranger, a
selection of specially
arranged English and
American folksongs with
Orpheus Chamber
Orchestra; and Arcadia,
a collection of rare and
unpublished cantatas by
composers from Rome’s
Arcadian Circle, are all
released on the Decca
label. Also on Decca is
the outstanding Arias for
Senesino album for which
he won the 2006 Classical
Brit Singer of the Year
award. His discography
also includes Solomon and
Saul under Paul McCreesh
for Deutsche Grammophon
and he features on the
soundtrack of the film
version of The Merchant
of Venice. Bach's
Christmas Oratorio,
Monteverdi's Orfeo and
1610 Vespers, and
Gramophone Awardwinning
recordings of
Vivaldi's Stabat Mater
and Caldara's Maddalena
ai piedi di Cristo are all
on Harmonia Mundi as
is his latest recording,
a collection of cantatas
by Handel, entitled Il
duello amoroso.
A committed recital artist
Andreas Scholl performs
in the world's leading
concert halls and festivals,
and concert performances
have included
appearances with
The Cleveland Orchestra,
Deutsches Symphonie-
Orchester Berlin, Boston
Symphony Orchestra,
The Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra, Akademie
für Alte Musik Berlin,
Freiburger Barockorchester
and Münchner
Philharmoniker. He made
his operatic début as
Bertarido (Rodelinda) at
Glyndebourne Festival
Opera and last season
made his critically
acclaimed début at
The Metropolitan Opera
in the same role. He is
a regular performer at
the BBC Proms, making
history as both the first
counter-tenor and the first
German to sing at the
Last Night in 2005.
Season highlights include
a programme of Handel
Cantatas with Accademia
Bizantina and Messiah
with Berlin Philharmonic
under the baton of
William Christie. On the
opera stage he will appear
as Giulio Cesare at Opera
de Lausanne.
Born in Germany,
Andreas Scholl's early
musical training was with
the Kiedricher Chorbuben.
He later went on to study
under Richard Levitt and
René Jacobs at the Schola
Cantorum Basiliensis.
He is a winner of the
1999 ECHO Awards,
Prix de l'Union de la
Presse Musicale Belge
and the Middle Ages /
Renaissance category of
the 2002 Edison Awards
for his recording of A
Musicall Banquet. He won
a second ECHO Award in
2005 for his composition
of music for Deutsche
Grammophon's audiobook
of Hans Christian
Andersen's The Emperor's
New Clothes and The
Nightingale.