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Ethereal yet visceral, Scholl's voice is the dream vehicle for Purcell...Stefano Montanari coaxes thrilling playing from Accademia Bizantina, who dance and swagger, throb and pulsate with true... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 17th Jan 2011
Catalogue No: 4782262
Label: Decca
Length: 76 minutes

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Purcell: If music be the food of love, Z379

Work length2:15

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Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

Purcell: Come ye sons of art

Work length3:00

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Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stefano Montanari (leader), Christophe Dumaux (countertenor)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

Sound the Trumpet

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Excerpt, Purcell: Come ye sons of art (Ode for Queen Mary's birthday, 1694), Z 323

Work length4:18

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Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

Strike the viol, touch the lute

Track length4:18

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Purcell: Chaconne (From King Arthur)

Work length3:36

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Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

Excerpt, Purcell: King Arthur, Z628

Work length4:54

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Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

Fairest Isle

Track length4:54

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Purcell: King Arthur, or The British Worthy (1691) / Act 3

Work length3:09

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Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

What Power art thou?

Track length3:09

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Purcell: Chacony in G minor - for Two Violins, Viola and Bass Z730

Work length4:07

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Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

Excerpt, Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

Work length2:24

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Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

One Charming Night

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Excerpt, Purcell: Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country: incidental music, Z585

Work length3:17

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Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

Sweeter Than Roses

Track length3:17

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / Act 3

Work length4:04

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Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

When I Am Laid In Earth - Dido's Lament)

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Excerpt, Purcell: The Gordion Knot Untied - incidental music, Z597

Work length10:46

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Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

Music For The Gordian Knot Unty'd

Track length10:46

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Purcell: Ode for St Cecilia's Day, "Welcome to all the pleasures", Z339 - original version

Work length4:35

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Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

Here The Deities Approve

Track length4:35

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Excerpt, Purcell: Oedipus: incidental music, Z583

Work length4:13

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Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

Music For A While, Z583

Track length4:13

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Purcell: O dive custos Auriacae domus, Z504

Work length6:59

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Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stefano Montanari (leader), Christophe Dumaux (countertenor)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

Purcell: O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z406

Work length5:32

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Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

Purcell: Pavan for Three Violins and Bass in G minor - Z752

Work length4:49

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Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

Purcell: An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193

Work length4:33

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Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stefano Montanari (leader)
Accademia Bizantina
Recorded: 2010-07-22
Recording Venue: Chiesa di San Girolamo, Bagnacavallo

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Favourites, Henry Purcell

David explores some of the top performances - old and new - of the wide and varied output of English Baroque master Henry Purcell.

The greatest countertenor of today, Andreas Scholl returns to the Decca label with a recording of vocal jewels by the great baroque composer, Henry Purcell. This is Andreas Scholl's first ever recording of the music of Purcell and his uniquely beautiful voice is perfectly suited to the English composer's plangent melodies. The album includes pieces written for the stage, the church and the private chamber, some of which Andreas Scholl has sung in recital for many years, and some he sings for the first time.

Andreas Scholl's long-standing collaborators, ‘Accademia Bizantina’ bring out the Italian influence in Purcell's instrumental writing, and contribute orchestral items to the programme. 'O Solitude' is Andreas Scholl's first Decca album since the chart-topping ‘Handel: Arias For Senesino' in 2006.

The album includes the well known lament 'When I Am Laid In Earth' - recently voted the UK's No.1 favourite aria in a BBC Radio 3 poll - written for the character of Dido in Purcell's opera, Dido and Aeneas.

Andreas Scholl is joined for two duets by French countertenor Christophe Dumaux.

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January 2011

Ethereal yet visceral, Scholl's voice is the dream vehicle for Purcell...Stefano Montanari coaxes thrilling playing from Accademia Bizantina, who dance and swagger, throb and pulsate with true Latin passion. Their continuo realisations - here delicate and intimate, there audaciously jazzy - are an unceasing delight.

March 2011

There's no doubt about the theatrical intent driving Scholl's interpretations and the flamboyant work of Italian period instrument band, Accademia Bizantina. The latter's lively continuo group and multi-hued sounds certainly catch the full flavour...few singers...can match him for style and intelligent musicianship in this repertoire.

21st January 2011

Scholl understands the importance of words and remains the countertenor of choice: it’s not so much the intelligence and grace that make his artistry so instantly recognisable, as the hypnotically soothing quality of his voice...Among the many joys of this exceptional recital are the accompaniments by Accademia Bizantina.

March 2011

his way with words has strengthened...the two countertenors combine marvellously in O dive custos

April 2011

[The disc] contains much in the way of sympathetic vocal and instrumental colouring, not to mention some very fine singing and playing, full-stop...Stefano Montanari's stylish violin-playing [in Fairest Isle], as elsewhere, is a treat in itself...Scholl [brings] an animated, urgent quality to his performance, the tone rich and resonant, the diction razor-sharp.

13th January 2011

that famously otherworldly tone [is] often breathtakingly in evidence...His decision to tackle Dido's lament has generated controversy: in fact, his performance is extraordinarily haunting...O Dive Custos is arguably the disc's high point. The Academia Bizantina, meanwhile, are on fine form for Stefano Montanari

22nd January 2011

Few counter-tenors maintain the width of repertoire or vocal acumen of this artist...his Cold Song from “King Arthur” [is] a shivering, juddering triumph, and the entire package pleases.

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