Andreas Scholl: O Solitude – review

Scholl/Dumaux/Academia Bizantina/Montanari(Decca)Andreas Scholl's foray into Purcell at London's Barbican last year with fellow counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky was disappointing, causing some to question whether he should be singing this music in the first place. Hearing his Purcell album, O Solitude, one's doubts recede a bit. He's in better voice here, with that famously otherworldly tone often breathtakingly in evidence. The programme, places the emphasis firmly on the quintessential Scholl...

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