Paul Agnew And Christopher Wilson

Paul Agnew Born 1964 In Glasgow Is A Scottish Operatic Tenor And Christopher Wilson Is An English Lutenist. Agnew Read Music As A Choral Scholar At Magdalen College Oxford. He Became Associated With The Consort Of Musicke The Tallis Scholars The Sixteen And The Gothic Voices Before Embarking On A Solo Career In The Early 1990s. Closely Associated With William Christie And Les Arts Florissants Paul Agnew Has Performed The Roles Of Jason In Charpentier's Médée And Of Hippolyte In Rameau's Hippolyte Et Aricie As Well As Appearing On The Recordings Of La Descente D'Orphée Aux Enfers And Les Plaisirs De Versailles Both By Marc-Antoine Charpentier Acis And Galatea By George Frideric Handel And Rameau's Grands Motets Gramophone's Best Early Music Vocal Award In 1995 . In 2007 Agnew Conducted Les Arts Florissants In A Performance Of Antonio Vivaldi. He Is The First Person Other Than William Christie To Conduct The Ensemble. Paul Agnew's Other Recordings Include Mozart's Coronation Mass Bach Cantatas And Bach's Mass In B Minorwith Ton Koopman And The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir Bach's St John Passion With Stephen Cleobury Also On Video Bach's St Markus Passion With Roy Goodman Berlioz's L'enfance Du Christ With Philippe Herreweghe Handel's Solomon With Paul McCreesh Bach's Christmas Oratorio With Philip Pickett And Rameau's Dardanus With Pinchgut Opera. Also He Has Played The Title Travesti Role In Rameau's Platée Which Has Been Released On DVD. Wilson Studied With Diana Poulton At The Royal College Of Music From 1970 To 1972 And Performed His Debut Recital At Wigmore Hall In 1977. He Has Performed And Recorded A Remarkable Range Of Sixteenth- And Seventeenth Century Music For Solo Lute. He Is Also A Frequent Collaborator With Singers Paul Agnew Rufus Müller Michael Chance And Shirley Rumsey With Whom He Formed The Duo Kithara . He Founded The Lute Group And Has Played With Such Ensembles As The Consort Of Musicke Fretwork English Baroque Soloists And Gothic Voices. He Teaches The Lute At Trinity College Of Music In London. read less