Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Arias
Soile Isokoski, soprano · Tapiola Sinfonietta · Peter Schreier, conductor
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Franz Schubert
Missa Solemnis
Stabat mater · Salve Regina
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Monica Groop, mezzosoprano
Marcus Ullmann, tenor
Juha Kotilainen, baritone
Peter Schreier, tenor
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Peter Schreier Choir
Peter Schreier, conductor
Track listing
8 tracks · 57:04Franz Schubert
- Mass No. 5 in A flat Major D.678 "Missa Solemnis" 46:51
- 1 I. Kyrie 6:03
- 2 II. Gloria 15:01
- 3 III. Credo 11:10
- 4 IV. Sanctus 3:14
- 5 V. Benedictus 4:34
- 6 VI. Agnus Dei 6:47
- 7 Stabat mater in G Minor for Choir and Orchestra D.175 5:24
- 8 Salve Regina in B flat Major for Tenor and Orchestra D.106 4:51
Features
Booklet with liner notes in English, German, French and Finnish and the sung texts in the original language and in English
The artists
Soile Isokoski
Soile Isokoski is recognized as one of the world's finest lyric sopranos. After graduating from the Sibelius Academy, she gave her début recital in Helsinki in 1986 and subsequently won a number of important international singing competitions. She made her début at the Finnish National Opera as Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème and has since delighted audiences and critics alike at opera houses in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, London, Milan and Paris, at The Metropolitan Opera and at music festivals in Salzburg, Savonlinna, Edinburgh and Orange.
Monica Groop
Finnish mezzo-soprano Monica Groop has been recognised for her amazing versatility in a wide-ranging repertoire that spans baroque music through classical to contemporary and has performed in many of the world's leading opera houses and orchestras such as Covent Garden, Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. She has worked with conductors as diverse as Colin Davis, Zubin Mehta, Bernard Haitink, Roger Norrington, Ivor Bolton, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Christoph Eschenbach.
Marcus Ullmann
Marcus Ullmann began his singing career with the Dresden Kreuzchor when he was nine. In 1986 he enrolled as a student of Hartmut Zabel at the Dresden Music Academy. His teachers have also included Theo Adam, Walter Moore, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, whose Lied class he attended in 1992-93. Marcus Ullmann has sung roles in major European and US opera house productions and appeared at concerts in various parts of Europe. He has worked with Christian Kluttig, Carlos Kalmar, Leopold Hager, among others.