Liszt: The Complete Songs, Vol. 2 - Angelika ... - Abeille Musique
Liszt: The Complete Songs, Vol. 2 - Angelika ... - Abeille Musique
Liszt: The Complete Songs, Vol. 2 - Angelika ... - Abeille Musique
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ANGELIKA Kirchschlager<br />
<strong>Angelika</strong> Kirchschlager enjoys an international career as<br />
one of today’s most important artists, dividing her time<br />
between recitals and opera in Europe, North America and<br />
the Far East. She is internationally recognized as one of the<br />
foremost interpreters of the operas of Richard Strauss and<br />
Mozart. In title roles of operas such as Debussy’s Pelléas et<br />
Mélisande, Nicholas Maw’s Sophie’s Choice and Britten’s<br />
<strong>The</strong> rape of Lucretia she shows the rich variety of her<br />
voice. As a celebrated recitalist and concert performer her<br />
repertoire ranges from Bach, Berlioz, Brahms, Debussy,<br />
v<br />
Dvorák,<br />
Korngold, Mahler, Mendelssohn and Ravel to<br />
Rossini, Schubert, Schumann, Weill and Wolf. She also<br />
appears with the world’s most important orchestras and<br />
conductors including the New York, Berlin and Vienna<br />
Philharmonic Orchestras. She has a wide discography and<br />
has won numerous awards, including a Grammy for the<br />
recording of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with René Jacobs.<br />
For Hyperion she has recorded a disc called ‘Women’s lives<br />
and loves’ (CDA67563) with Felicity Lott, and the first<br />
volume in the label’s survey of the complete songs of<br />
Brahms (CDJ33121), both with Graham Johnson. In 2007<br />
she was made a Kammersängerin of the Vienna State<br />
Opera by the Austrian Government. She is a guest professor<br />
at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she is also<br />
an Honorary Fellow, and teaches at the University of Graz.<br />
Born in Salzburg, <strong>Angelika</strong> Kirchschlager enrolled at the<br />
Vienna Music Academy in 1984 where she studied voice<br />
with Professor Gerhard Kahry and the late Viennese<br />
baritone Walter Berry. She makes her home in Vienna.<br />
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© Nikolaus Karlinsky