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The best-loved Andreas Scholl recordings Please click here to see the 'Scholl Chart'. Please click here to register your own choices - scroll to the bottom of the Discography page and vote in our poll.

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And finally, and not entirely seriously... Andreas Scholl sang the Habanera from Bizet's Carmen on the spoof CD The Countertenors.  Some people who shall remain forever nameless have said they would love to hear him sing it concert. As a jolly encore, perhaps.  Others are horrified at the very idea.  What do you think?  Click here to tell us!

The song playing is An die Eisamkeit (Solitude) by Johann Philipp Krieger - libretto here -  from the CD Deutsche Barocklieder © 1995 Harmonia Mundi France Samples are played on this not-for-profit site in the hope that visitors will be tempted to buy the full recordings. If you own copyright in any of them and object to our using it, we will remove it.  Please mail us now

 

 

Just discovered Andreas Scholl?  Wondering which CDs to get? Andreas Scholl’s extraordinary voice has brought many people to so-called 'early music' for the first time.  His core repertoire is music of the late Renaissance and, more especially, of the Baroque: roughly 1600 to 1750.  The range of composers whose work he has recorded is wide and if you don’t know what to buy next, this list may help.  The 'Listen' score is merely our opinion, offered to those not very familiar with the Baroque alto repertoire.  Listen-1 means 'newcomers usually like this at first hearing'.  Listen-5 means 'perhaps a bit more obscure but you'll be glad you stuck with it'. Click on a CD title below to get more information at the relevant Amazon.com page and, in some cases, hear a sample. These CDs are also available from other suppliers.  BUT SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL CD STORE ! Click here to go to Gramophone's Gramofile for authoritative reviews of Andreas Scholl's recordings.  Free registration required, then click on Reviews

Description  & Composer	Aria/Track	CD	Listen
Countertenor standard: Handel	Ombra mai fu (from Serse)	Ombra mai fu	1
Good sampler, compilation	All	Andreas Scholl: The Voice	1
Melancholy, slow, sweet: Krieger	An die Eisamkeit (from a lost opera)	Deutsche Barocklieder	3
Sweet, heartbreaker: Dowland	I saw my lady weep	English Folksongs & Lute Songs	2
Lullaby-hymn: Erlebach	Wer sich dem Himmel übergeben	Kantate	3
Heroic: Hasse	Pallido il sole (from Ataserse)	Heroes	1
Defiant tour de force: Mozart	Venga pur, minacci e frema (from Mitridate)	Heroes	1
Lyrical, hypnotic	Cum dederit (from Nisi Dominus)	Andreas Scholl: Vivaldi	1
Contemplative, sublime	Agnus Dei	Bach: B Minor Mass	2
Inspiring: Handel	But who may abide (from Messiah)	Messiah	1
Poignant, romantic: Gluck	Ah! Non turbi il mio riposo (from Telemaco)	Heroes	1
Definitive Bach for alto, sacred	Vergnügte Ruh (from BWV 170)	Bach: Cantatas for Solo Alto	3
Definitive Bach for alto, secular	Treues Echo (from The Choice of Hercules)	Bach: Cantates Profanes	3
Duet with Barbara Bonney	Stabat Mater	Pergolesi: Stabat Mater	1
Contemplative, soul-wrenching	Erbarme Dich	Bach: St Matthew Passion	3
Funny, naughty: Hammerschmidt	Kunst des Küssens	Deutsche Barocklieder	4
Angry vocal gymnastics	Cessate, omai cessate	Vivaldi: Stabat Mater	1
Heroic show-stopper: Handel	Vivi tiranno (from Rodelinda)	Heroes	1
Magical, celestial: Caldara	Da quel strale que stilla veleno	Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo	2
Bleak, bitter: Dowland	In darkness let me dwell	A Musicall Banquet	3
Distilled beauty: Anon	O bella più che le stelle Diana	A Musicall Banquet	3
Perfect simplicity in folk song	Annie Laurie	Wayfaring Stranger	1

And now look at the full recorded repertoire...

For a detailed chronology of composers whose songs Andreas Scholl has recorded click here
 

 

Dear Andreas, please record...
BACH, Johann Sebastian	BWV200 Bekennen will ich seinen Namen BWV508 Bist du bei mir BWV82 Ich habe genug (4 requests) BWV208 Schafe können sicher weiden/Sheep may safely graze
BRAHMS, Johannes	Duets for Alto and Bass, Op. 91, with Thomas QuasthoffC
BRUHNS, Nicolaus	Cantatas (German, 17th century)
CALDARA, Antonio	Cantatas
CAVALLI, Pietro	Lucidissima face, from the opera La Calisto
DE PRES, Josquin	In te, Domine, speravi
GIBBONS, Orlando	This is the record of John
GLUCK, Christoph Willibald	Orfeo ed Euridice in the Vienna version
HANDEL, George Frideric	Admeto in full Alcina in full Belshazzar in full (Daniel) Cara sposa (Rinaldo) ... he has ! c Fatto è Amor un Dio d'Inferno (Partenope)  c Giulio Cesare in full   - DVD soon! Mi palpita il cor  - he has (2007) Orlando in full Partenope in full (Arsace) Rodelinda in full  - DVD available Rompo i lacci (Flavio)  c Scherza infida (Ariodante) Se parla nel mio cor Splenda l'alba Tamerlano in full (Andronico) Theodora in full (Didymus) Tolomeo in full  Tune your harps Vedendo Amor - he has! Voi che udite il mio lamento (Agrippina)
HASSE,  Johann Adolph	Cleofide in full
JOHNSON, Robert	Have you seen the bight lily gorw?
MARCELLO, Benedetto	Signor, dall'empia gente
MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus	Abendemfindung an Laura Mitridate
PÄRT, Arvo	My heart's in the highlands
PORPORA, Nicola	Alto Giove (performed in the film Farinelli)
PURCELL, Henry	An evening hymn By beauteous softness Here the Deities approve Music for a while O Solitude Sweeter than roses What shall I do, from the opera The Prophetess
ROSANO, Marco	Stabat Mater - click here for sample
SCARLATTI, Alessandro	Perche tacete, regolati concenti? Salve Regina Stabat Mater
SCHUBERT, Franz	Winterreise - Gefrorne Trä'nen
SCHÜTZ, Heinrich	In te, Domine, speravi
VIVALDI, Antonio	Sposa son disprezzata Vedeste mai sul prato (Bajazet) ... although the Tamerlano role may be too villainous for your own personality!)
ZEBROWSKI, Josef Marcin	Magnificat
More...	German Baroque songs

Dietrich Buxtehude: Ich bin die Auferstehung - BuxWV 44
Samuel Friedrich Capricornus: Surrexit pastor bonus
Diego Durón: Cantada de corpus. Resuene el orbe
Andreas Hammerschmidt: Gelobet sey der Herr à 4
Friedrich Gottlieb Klingenberg: Arie: Herr Bräutigam, wo seyd ihr doch
Johann Albrecht Kress: In te Domine speravi
Johann Kreiger: Himmelfahrts-Andacht: Der Heyland fähret auf

Dear Andreas, please perform...
Buxtehude, Schütz  et al	The 'Kantate' concert  (He does, from time to time. Watch our concerts page! - webmaster)
Johann Sebastian BACH	Bist du bei mir BWV508 Ich will dich nicht hören from Hercules auf dem Scheidewege BWV 213 Weinachts-Oratorium BWV248
Georges BIZET	Habanera from Carmenxxxx(Oh, go on.  As an encore...?)
Benjamin BRITTEN	A Midsummer Night's Dream
Antonio CALDARA	Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo - live and in full ... Oh please!  It would be a sell-out.
Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER	David in David et Jonathas
John Dowland	Weep no more
Georg Frideric HANDEL	All the 'Senesino operas' ! Cara sposa from Rinaldo Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay from Hercules HWV60 Scherza infida from Ariodante HWV33 Thou shalt bring them in - from Israel in Egypt HWV54
Robert JONES	Lie down, poor heart
Claudio MONTEVERDI	Voglio di vita uscir
Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (arr.)	The unquiet grave

 

Habanera ! xx

Would you like Andreas Scholl to sing the Habanera from Carmen as an encore at a concert? If you haven't heard him sing it, go here to listen to a sample. xxxx YES! Love it! Go for it, Andreas! Maybe... No. Stick to the serious stuff, please. Click here to see how this poll is going

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