John Behr

Andreas Scholl's singing has been developing year by year. In this more recent release, his singing style moved more and more towards pure art with no traces of pretenses or technical showmanship, no excessive vibrato or wild coloraturas. He did not even need to target at 'perfect vocal production'. All these have become secondary stuff when you reach this level of artistry. The other-wordliness of this album has to be heard to be catched.

John Dowland & His Contemporaries: Crystal Tears
Andreas Scholl - Concerto Di Viole - Julian Behr (Lute)
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 319 MB | DVD untouched: 1,11 GB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Harmonia Mundi # HMC 901993 | Country/Year: Europe 2008
Genre: Classical | Style: Renaissance

There are few pleasures more delightful than musical melancholy, especially when it flows from the pen of the finest Elizabethan poets and a composer whose name will be forever associated with that emotion: John Dowland…

The French tenor Julien Behr is one of today’s rising vocal stars. Voted ‘Révélation artiste lyrique de l’Adami’ in 2009, the year he made his international debut at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, he has become famous for his Mozart roles (including Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, recorded live at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 2016 under the direction of Jérémie Rhorer, Alpha379).