Andreas Scholl; "CESSATE, OMAI CESSATE"; Antonio Vivaldi

This channel is the re-establishment of previous channels that have been sadly terminated. ========================= Andreas Scholl--counter-tenor Chiara Banchini--conductor Ensemble 415 1994 ==================== "Born: November 10, 1967 - Eltville, Germany The German counter-tenor, Andreas Scholl, was born in Eltville-am-Rhein, and grew up in the neighbouring village of Kiedrich im Rheingau near Wiesbaden. There he was a member of the 600-year old Kiedricher Chorbuben, along with several members of his family including his sister, the soprano Elisabeth Scholl. He first sang the music of J.S. Bach at the age of seven. The children learnt ‘by ear’ and Scholl did not begin to read music until his late teens. Aged thirteen, he was selected from 20,000 choristers at a Rome festival to sing solo in St Peter’s Basilica before Pope John Paul 11. At seventeen he was still singing soprano, having ‘sung through the break’, although his speaking voice had by then long been baritone. He was identified as a countertenor by the Chorbuben&voice coach who sent him to tenor/countertenor Herbert Klein. Klein advised him that he should study in London or at Basel’s Schola Cantorum Basiliensis which, until then, had never accepted undergraduates. Scholl was auditioned and accepted on the recommendation of René Jacobs, then teaching at the Schola. He obtained his Diploma in Ancient Music six years later having studied with Richard Levitt and taken specialist classes with René Jacobs, Emma...