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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JULIUS Drake<br />
<strong>The</strong> pianist Julius Drake lives in London and specializes<br />
in chamber and vocal music, working with many of the<br />
world’s leading artists, both in recital and on disc. He<br />
appears at all the major music centres, including the<br />
Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Schubertiade, and<br />
Salzburg Music Festivals; Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center,<br />
New York; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Philarmonie,<br />
Cologne; Châtelet and Musée de Louvre, Paris; La Scala,<br />
Milan; Liceu, Barcelona; Musikverein and Konzerthaus,<br />
Vienna; and Wigmore Hall and the BBC Proms in London.<br />
Director of the Perth International Chamber Music<br />
Festival in Australia from 2000 to 2003, his duo with oboist<br />
Nicholas Daniel has been described by <strong>The</strong> Independent as<br />
‘one of the most satisfying in British chamber music: vital,<br />
thoughtful and confirmed in musical integrity of the<br />
highest order’. Among the many outstanding vocal artists<br />
he has partnered are Victoria de los Angeles, Sir Thomas<br />
Allen, Barbara Bonney, Ian Bostridge, Gerald Finley,<br />
Matthias Goerne, Dame Felicity Lott, Simon Keenlyside,<br />
<strong>Angelika</strong> Kirchschlager and Willard White. Professor at the<br />
Royal Academy of Music in London and visiting professor<br />
at the Royal Northern College of Music he gives regular<br />
masterclasses.<br />
Julius Drake’s many recordings include live recitals for<br />
the Wigmore Hall Live label, with among other artists the<br />
late Lorraine Hunt Liebersen; award-winning recordings<br />
with Ian Bostridge for EMI; and his recent widely<br />
acclaimed series with Gerald Finley for Hyperion, inclu -<br />
ding discs of Barber <strong>Songs</strong>, Schumann’s Dichterliebe and<br />
Britten’s <strong>Songs</strong> and Proverbs of William Blake that won<br />
Gramophone Awards in 2008, 2009 and 2011 respectively.<br />
Julius Drake has also embarked on a major new project for<br />
Hyperion, of which this is the second volume, to record the<br />
complete songs of Franz <strong>Liszt</strong>.<br />
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© Marco Borggreve