Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic mark Smetana’s bicentenary in peerless style, while the countertenor and Accademia Bizantina contemplate the Virgin Mary Happy birthday Bedřich Smetana! This ...

While the speaker of the Stabat Mater (set here both by Vivaldi) watches the grieving Virgin from a distance, the Marian texts of Porpora’s Il trionfo della Divina Giustizia nei tormenti e morte di ...

Martin Handley presents a concert in which countertenor Andreas Scholl is joined by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a programme of early music focusing on the countertenor voice. With ...

Right now there are eight or nine world-class countertenors, more than at any time since Handel’s heyday–and in Handel’s heyday, in the mid-18th century, they weren’t countertenors in the modern sense ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Mild-mannered, and stooping as though sheepish about his height, Andreas Scholl looked downwards and sideways throughout the instrumental ...

Andreas Scholl sings with an ease and beauty that combine to produce a voice that is truly individual - an astonishing natural vocalism that has made Scholl the most popular countertenor of his day.

“In principle I’m a singer. I don’t define myself as a countertenor. I'm a musician and then I’m a singer.” The celebrated German countertenor Andreas Scholl says his distinctive, otherworldly high ...

Filmed in the Angel Place Recital Hall in Sydney, Andreas Scholl - the countertenor of our time - performs an all-Vivaldi concert with the celebrated Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (one of Australia ...