Wanderer Andreas Scholl

• 49 Deutsche Volkslieder Book VI
• 1 42. In stiller Nacht 03:06
• 2 The Wanderer 03:19
• 3 Recollection 05:20
• 49 Deutsche Volkslieder Book III
• 4 21. Es ging ein Maidlein zarte 02:33
• 5 Das Veilchen, K476 02:12
• 12 Waltzes, D.145, Op.18
• 6 No.6 in B minor 01:24
• 7 Im Haine, D.738 02:42
• 8 Despair 05:11
• 9 Abendstern, D806 02:11
• 10 An Mignon, D. 161 02:53
• 11 25. Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund 01:55
• 12 Abendempfindung An Laura K523 04:59
• 13 Der Tod und das Madchen, D531 02:20
• 14 Piano Sonata In F K494: 3. Rondo (Allegretto) 06:11
• 15 Ridente La Calma, K152 03:13
• 16 30. All mein' Gedanken 02:34
• 17 6. Da unten im Tale 01:36
• 18 Der Jüngling auf dem Hügel, D702 05:04
• 19 Ave Maria (Short Version) 04:44
• 20 4. Guten Abend 02:48
• 21 2. Intermezzo in A 06:17
• 22 Du Bist Die Ruh, Opus 59 No.3, D776 03:45
• 23 Ave Maria (Long Version) 06:44
• Total Runtime 01:23:01

Info for Wanderer

A new and exquisite collection of German songs from counter-tenor Andreas Scholl, providing a perfect balance between text and music. The choice of music reflects Scholl’s belief that music need not be confined in performance to a particular voice type, as long as “the singer’s approach is true.”

Scholl pulls off a bravura display in Schubert’s An Mignon, singing in both the counter-tenor and baritone register. The performance of these songs reveals an intuitive understanding between singer and accompanist, Andreas Scholl and Tamar Halperin.

“It might be a new Golden Age of the countertenor, bur few can equal the sheer beauty of tone and dramatic instinct displayed by Andreas Scholl.” (BBC Music Magazine, February 2012)

“On one level Wanderer gives the listener abundant pleasure...Scholl’s diligent phrasing, purity of tone and lack of tricks bring...rewards...His piano partner, Tamar Halperin, is deft and poetic...Listen a little deeper, though, and limits to this pleasure emerge. Up at the top of Scholl’s register the more the voice seems trapped in a narrow pipe with no room for clear articulation of words or subtle changes of colour and weight.” (The Times, November 2012)

Andreas Scholl, counter-tenor
Tamar Halperin, piano

Andreas Scholl has released a series of extraordinary solo recordings: the most recent being Wanderer - a disc of German Lied. Other notable releases include Bach cantatas with kammerorchesterbasel, O Solitude – an all-Purcell album with Accademia Bizantina which won the 2012 BBC Music Magazine award, Arias for Senesino - for which he won the 2006 Classical Brit Singer of the Year award, 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 - all of which are released on Decca. His discography also includes recordings for Deutsche Grammophon - Handel’s Solomon and Saul with Paul McCreesh and for Harmonia Mundi including the Gramophone Award-winning Vivaldi Stabat Mater; Caldara's Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo; Il duello amoroso, a selection of Handel’s Italian cantatas with Accademia Bizantina; Crystal Tears - lute and consort songs by John Dowland and Songs of Myself - the songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein. His DVD releases include productions of Giulio Cesare (for both Decca and Harmonia Mundi), Rodelinda (Warner) and Partenope (Decca).

This season Andreas Scholl embarks on a major recital tour of Europe and North America including Berlin’s Konzerthaus, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Lincoln Center New York (promoting his Wanderer CD). He also sings the St Matthew Passion at King’s College, Cambridge (under Stephen Cleobury) and Bach Cantatas at Vienna’s Musikverein with Concentus Musicus (under Nikolaus Harnoncourt).

Andreas Scholl performs in the world's leading concert venues and festivals. Operatic roles include the title role in Giulio Cesare at Royal Danish Opera, Opéra de Lausanne, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the 2012 Salzburg Festival (opposite Cecilia Bartoli), Bertarido (Rodelinda) at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Metropolitan Opera (opposite Renée Fleming) and Arsace (Partenope) at Royal Danish Opera. His concert performances have included appearances with Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Dresdner Philharmonie, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Freiburger Barockorchester, Münchner Philharmoniker, the English Concert and at the 2005 Last Night of the Proms - the first counter-tenor ever to have been invited.

Born in Germany, Andreas Scholl's early musical training was with the Kiedricher Chorbuben. He later studied 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 for Deutsche Grammophon's audio-book of Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes and The Nightingale. (Source: Harrison Parrott)

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