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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Andreas Scholl - CountertenorA Portrait by Uli Aumüller and Hanne Kaisik
Andreas Scholl (countertenor) The film accompanies the internationally renowned countertenor Andreas Scholl
to recitals in Dresden, Schwetzingen and his home town, Kiedrich. In interviews
Andreas Scholl sheds light on his personal and artistic development.
In bonus parts of the DVD Andreas Scholl sings John Dowland’s “Lute Songs“ and Dietrich
Buxtehude’s “Jubilate Domino“. Directly after the recital, Scholl and his co-performers
discuss the works and their interpretation of them.
“What is the point of a recital, an opera, what is the purpose of music, presented to
an audience by performers, communicators? Of course, the purpose of music and
art in general, is to enlighten and inspire the human spirit. It is about stimulating –
and shaping – both our hearts and our minds.” These and other questions Andreas
Scholl wants to find out in this portrait. “Scholl‘s voice is pure and beautiful in sound, his taste exquisite, his pitch and diction immaculate. It is inadequate to compare Andreas Scholl to many other countertenors now working, even the fi nest of them. Instead one is put in mind of legendary past masters.” (Fanfare Magazine) | 
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| Crystal Tears (+free dvd)John Dowland & his contemporaries
Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Julian Behr (lute) Concerto di Viole There are few pleasures more delightful than musical melancholy, especially when it flows from the pen of the
finest Elizabethan poets and a composer whose name will be forever associated with that emotion: John
Dowland. His lute songs and consort songs form the backbone of Andreas Scholl's latest recital.
The countertenor has gathered his favourite partners around him in the service of this sublime vocal art,
elegantly distilling its fragile instants of grace.The songs are adroitly interspersed with instrumental pieces by
Dowland's contemporaries.
Bonus DVD NTSC: a performance of the song 'Venus' birds' and a documentary on the making of this
recording.Trailers available on harmoniamundi.com & Youtube.
Since it was founded in Basel in 1989, Concerto di Viole has played as a permanent ensemble. Its four
members all studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and each individual brings to it rich musical experience
with well-known international ensembles.They have recorded a number of CDs including German Baroque
cantatas with Andreas Scholl for harmonia mundi in 1998. “There is surely no voice more ethereal-sounding among contemporary falsettists than Scholl’s, and he lavishes a ravishingly beautiful sound on the Dowland “hits”: Go, crystal tears; Now, oh now, I needs must part; From silent night; Come, heavy sleep. The danger of monotony is averted with the interspersing of viol Fantasias by John Ward and Richard Mico, and of Dowland’s lute solos, Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens, The Lady Rich, Her Galliard and A Fancy, exquisitely played by Julian Behr. For fans of both Dowland and Scholl, this is a collector’s item.” Sunday Times, 29th June 2008 Disc of the Week |
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| |  | Bach - Solo Cantatas for Alto & Tenor
Bogna Bartosz (alto) & Andreas Scholl (alto) & Christoph Prégardien (tenor) Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman J.S. Bach wrote several cantatas that feature a particular solo voice. The selection on this CD, which has been taken from the award-winning cycle by Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir are for alto and tenor. The alto solo cantata “Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust” BWV 170 was written for the 6th Sunday after Trinity and first performed on 28 July 1726. Bach took its text from a collection by Georg Christian Lehms, whose sacred poetry he had previously utilised in Weimar. The alto solo cantata “Gott soll allein mein Herze haben” BWV 169 was premiered on the 18th Sunday after Trinity, 20 October 1726. The anonymous text is based on the Gospel for that Sunday, Matthew 22: 34-46, (“love thy neighbour”). “Widerstehe doch der Sünde” BWV 54, written for the 3rd Sunday in Lent, was performed in Weimar on 4 March 1714, but probably originated in 1713 or earlier. The words are by the librettist of BWV 170. Georg Christian Lehms, The piece represents in all likelihood Bach’s first example of a solo cantata. The tenor solo cantata “Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht” BWV 55 for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity was first performed on 17 November 1726. The anonymous text refers to the Sunday’s Gospel, Matthew 18: 23-35 (parable of the unmerciful servant). The alto aria “Bekennen will ich seinen Namen” BWV 200 represents a fragment from a cantata whose other movements are completely unknown. |
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| |  | Kantate - German Baroque Cantatas
Andreas Scholl (counter tenor) Concerto di Viole & Basel Consort The pieces on this recording demonstrate the consummate art with which the German composers reconciled the new ideas imported from Italy at the very beginning of the 17th century (the principle of the basso continuo, accompanied monody, the concertato technique) with local traditions, thereby giving birth to works of a subtle beauty and an almost inexhaustible richness. This stylistic revolution paved the way to the flourishing of great forms like the vocal solo, the spiritual concert, the cantata, etc. cultivated by composers as different as Schütz, Buxtehude, Tunder and Erlebach: in the very heart of Baroque Europe the Germans were taking their place. |
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| |  | 50 Milestones of Western MusicThe 50th Anniversary Boxed Set
| | Vida / A chantar La Comtessa de Dia Pilar Figueras (soprano) Clemencic Consort, René Clemencic Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Lute Book Paul O'Dette (lute) | Anglebert: | Pièces de clavecin (1689) Kenneth Gilbert | anon.: | The three ravens Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) Black is the colour of my true love's hair Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) The oak and the ash Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) Barbara Allen Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) Lord Rendall Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) Water is wide Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) The tailor and the mouse Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) Down by the sally garden's Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) I will give my love an apple Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) Bushes and briars Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) The foggy, foggy dew Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) She moved through the fair Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) Evening Prayer Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) Prière de Marie-Madeleine Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès Messe de saint Marcel Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès | Bach, J S: | St Matthew Passion, BWV244 Barbara Schlick (soprano), René Jacobs (alto), Hans-Peter Blochwitz (ténor) & Peter Kooy (basse) Chœur et Orchestre de La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent & Chœur d'enfants "In dulci jubilo" de Saint-Nicolas, Philippe Herreweghe Musical Offering, BWV1079 Davitt Moroney, Janet See, John Holloway, Jaap ter Linden & Martha Cook The Art of Fugue, BWV1080 Fretwork | Banchieri: | Barca di Venetia per Padova Ensemble Clément Janequin | Bartók: | Contrasts for violin, clarinet & piano Ensemble Walter Boeykens | Beethoven: | Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica' Transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt Georges Pludermacher (piano ) | Berlioz: | Les Nuits D'été, Op. 7 Brigitte Balleys (mezzo-soprano) Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe | Biber: | The Rosary Sonatas Andrew Manze & Richard Egarr | Brahms: | Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120 No. 1 Michel Portal (clarinette) & Georges Pludermacher (piano) | Bruna: | Tiento sobre la letania de la Virgen Francis Chapelet, à l'orgue Diego de Orio Tejada | Cabanilles: | Corrente Italiana Francis Chapelet, à l'orgue Diego de Orio Tejada | Chausson: | Piano Quartet in A major, Op. 30 Les Musiciens | Chopin: | Ballades Nos. 1-4 Cédric Tiberghien (piano) | Copland: | Trio 'Vitebsk' Trio Wanderer | Couperin, A-L: | Simphonie de clavecins William Christie & David Fuller | Couperin, F: | Messe à l'usages des Paroisses Michel Chapuis, à l'orgue des Frères Isnard de Saint-Maximin | Dufay: | Intégrale des Motets isorythmiques Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel | Duron: | Gaitilla de mano izquierda Francis Chapelet, à l'orgue Diego de Orio Tejada | Falla: | El Amor Brujo Ginesa Ortega, (cantaora), Joan Martin (niño soprano / sopraniste), Iñaki Fresán (baryton) & Joan Cabero (ténor) Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure, Josep Pons | Haydn: | Piano Trio No. 39 in G major, Hob.XV:25 'Gypsy' Patrick Cohen, Erich Höbarth & Christophe Coin Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIb:1 Jean-Guihen Queyras (violoncelle) Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans | Heredia: | Salve de lleno Francis Chapelet, à l'orgue Diego de Orio Tejada Tiento de falsas de quarto tono Francis Chapelet, à l'orgue Diego de Orio Tejada Tiento lleno de primer tono Francis Chapelet, à l'orgue Diego de Orio Tejada | Hildegard: | Laudes de Sainte Ursule Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula Anonymous 4 | Janacek: | Sur un sentier recouvert Alain Planès (piano) String Quartet No. 2 'Intimate Letters' Melos Quartett | Jones, R: | Sweet Kate Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) | Keiser: | Croesus Roman Trekel, Johannes Mannov, Dorothea Röschmann, Werner Güra, Klaus Häger, Markus Schäfer, Salomé Haller, Kwangchul Youn, Graham Pushee, Brigitte Eisenfeld, Kurt Azesberger, Jörg Gottschick & Johanna Stojkovic Rias-Kammerchor & Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs | Liszt: | La Lugubre Gondola for cello & piano, S134 Emmanuelle Bertrand (violoncelle) & Pascal Amoyel (piano) | Lully: | Atys Guy de Mey, Guillemette Laurens, Agnès Mellon & Jean-François Gardeil Les Arts Florissants, William Christie | Marais: | La Gamme London Baroque, Charles Medlam | Monteverdi: | Pianto della Madonna Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano) Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes | Morley: | Sweet nymph, come to thy lover Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) I go before my darling Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) Miraculous Love's wounding Alfred Deller & Mark Deller (contre-ténors) & Desmond Dupré (luth et guitare) | Mozart: | 6 German Dances, K509 Andreas Staier & Christine Schornsheim Symphony No. 38 in D major, K504 'Prague' Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs | Muffat, Georg: | Apparatus musico-organisticus René Saorgin, orgue Charles Boisselin de Malaucène | Purcell: | King Arthur Maurice Bevan, Paul Elliott, Mark Deller, Honor Sheppard, Alfred Deller, Jean Knibbs, Rosemary Hardy & Honor Sheppard The King's Musick & The Deller Consort and Choir, Alfred Deller | Pärt: | Berliner Messe Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (orgue) Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier | Rameau: | Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin Alexandre Tharaud (piano) | Rossini: | Petite Messe solennelle Krassimira Stoyanova, Birgit Remmert, Steve Davislim & Hanno Müller-Brachmann RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed Sonata a quattro No. 4 in B flat major Christine Busch, Margarete Adorf, Roel Dieltiens & Love Persson Roel Dieltiens | Schobert: | Quatuor pour pianoforte deux violons et violoncelle Luciano Sgrizzi, Chiara Banchini, Véronique Méjean & Philipp Bosbach | Schubert: | Fantasie in C major for violin and piano, D934 Isabelle Faust (violon) & Alexander Melnikov (piano) Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960 Paul Lewis (piano) | Schumann: | Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) & Roger Vignoles (piano) | Shostakovich: | String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 Jerusalem Quartet | Sola: | Medio registro de mano derecha Francis Chapelet, à l'orgue Diego de Orio Tejada | Telemann: | Du aber Daniel, gehe hin Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel La Bizarre Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin | Vivaldi: | Stabat Mater, RV621 Andreas Scholl (contre-ténor) Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini | Wolf, H: | Goethe-Lieder Juliane Banse (soprano) & Dietrich Henschel (baryton) Rundfunkchor Berlin & Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano |
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Andreas Scholl (Giulio Cesare), Inger Dam-Jensen (Cleopatra), Randi Steene (Cornelia), Tuva Semmingsen (Sesto), Christopher Robson (Tolomeo), Palle Knudsen (Achilla) & James Huw Jeffries (Nireno) Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen Direction: Francisco Negrin, Design & costumes: Anthony Baker "This is certainly the most insightful and intelligent for drama, and probably also the best for all-round musical
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| |  | Schweizer Fernsehen 2005Artistic Direction - Wilhelm Zürrer and Producer - Thomas Grimm
Maria Cristina Kiehr, Rosa Dominguez (sopranos), Andreas Scholl (alto), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Ulrich Messthaler (bass) Schola Cantorum Basiliensis & Chiara Banchini, René Jacobs Subtitles in Latin, French, English, German | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Il duello amoroso - Italian Cantatas
Andreas Scholl (countertenor) & Hélène Guilmette (soprano) Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone "Scholl quickly demonstrated his natural ease… a limpid sound, beautifully phrased, with vibrato used sparingly. Here is a musician of obvious intelligence whose voice, in someone so young, is marvellously developed, pure and full, reminiscent of the young Alfred Deller." I wrote these words for this paper 10 years ago at Andreas Scholl's debut recital at London's Purcell Room. The promise has been abundantly fulfilled.” The Independent | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Art of English Songincludes works by Purcell, Vaughan Williams, Dowland, Warlock, Grainger, Butterworth, Ireland, Quilter & Handel
Bryn Terfel, Kathleen Ferrier, Emma Kirkby, Peter Pears, Andreas Scholl, Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Bonney, Felicity Palmer & Joan Sutherland. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Maria Cristina Kiehr, Andreas Scholl & Nederlands Kamerkoor Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs "...combines brilliance with richness..." BBC Music | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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