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Biography

Andreas Scholl has released a series of extraordinary solo recordings. For Decca he has released 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 and Vivaldi’s Motets with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Other releases on the same label include 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specially arranged English and American folksongs with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra) and Arcadia (a collection of rare and unpublished cantatas by composers from Rome’s Arcadian Circle).  Recordings for Harmonia Mundi include Songs of Myself - the songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein.

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Sample discography

Arias for Senesino
Handel: Partenope
Songs of Myself - The Songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein
Crystal Tears
Handel: Ombra Mai Fu
Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus
Wayfaring Stranger
Heroes

Reviews

“Andreas Scholl’s disc 'Crystal Tears', a darkly entrancing program of music from Elizabethan and Jacobean England, is my candidate for CD of the year. Scholl, a German countertenor with a pure yet full voice, goes uncannily deep into the songs of John Dowland and his contemporaries; the lutenist Julian Behr and the viol consort Concerto di viole provide immaculate, hypnotic accompaniment.” (The Ten Best Classical Music Recordings of 2008, The New Yorker, December 2008)

"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."  (The Times, June 2006)