The Best of Andreas Scholl
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Composer: Giulio CacciniComposer: John Dowland
Composer: Francesco Gasparini
Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Giovanni Pergolesi
Composer: Jocelyn Pook
Composer: Nicola Porpora
Composer: English Traditional
Composer: Korean Traditional
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Conductor: Christophe Rousset
Conductor: Paul Dyer
Conductor: Roger Norrington
Performer: Andreas Scholl
Performer: Accademia Bizantina
Performer: Les Talens Lyriques
Performer: Hyun-Sun Ha
Performer: Siobhan Armstrong
Performer: Stacey Shames
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-11-20
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Ombra mai fu
- Che far? senza Euridice?
- Ad te clamamus
- Dove sei, amato bene?
- Stabat Mater
- Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum
- Lidia, il sonno sai cos'??
- Cara sposa
- How sweet the moonlight
- La piet? che ancor non trova
- Va per le vene il sangue
- Aure, deh, per piet?
- Al lampo dell'armi
Music reviews of The Best of Andreas Scholl
Music Review: The Best In The Modern World
Rating: 5 Stars
Without exaggeration and without argument, Andreas Scholl is the most outstanding countertenor of our modern time, which has seen an astonishing revival in this voice type. His voice quality is unquestionably masculine, astonishingly high, incredibly powerful, flexible and commanding.
This CD contains 18 tracks which skim the surface of his career with Decca which covered a few years. It's a great sampler of Scholl's mid-career to 2006. One could argue that "Best of" is misleading since it omits all of his astonishing early recordings with Harmonia Mundi and Scholl fans sincerely hope that more is forthcoming now that he has returned to that label.
However, notable tracks include several famous Baroque opera arias including Ombra mai fu (Handel, SERSE) and Cara sposa (Handel, Rinaldo). One of my favorite folk songs is here: Blow the Wind Southerly. Also is one track of the soundtrack Scholl did for the Merchant of Venice movie: How Sweet the Moonlight. Part of Pergolesi's Stabet Mater with Barbara Bonney is here--I argue with that since this is incomparable as a whole and having just part of it grates on me but it is enough of a sample to give something of the flavor. Also included are a couple of things that are nowhere else such as the Korean folk song.
Aficionados of Scholl and the countertenor voice type will not have to be told to snap this up. I would also recommend this to anyone who was interested in collecting good voices. File this next to the early Pavarotti but on a "higher" shelf.
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- ( G ) > Gluck, Christoph W.
- ( P ) > Pergolesi, Gio Battista
- Porpora, Nicolo
- ( V ) > Vivaldi, Antonio
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > General
- Vocal & Song
- Classical (c.1770-1830) > General
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- Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > General Modern
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( S ) > Scholl, Andreas
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750)
- Classical (c.1770-1830)
- Languages > German
- Italian
- Vocal Non-Opera > Songs & Lieder > Folk Songs
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- Sacred & Religious > General
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- Soundtracks > Movie Scores
- Movie Soundtracks
- Dowland, John - Works by Dowland
- Gluck, Christoph W. - Works by Gluck
- Pergolesi, Gio Battista - Works by Pergolesi
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