Paul Agnew and Christopher Wilson
Paul Agnew and Christopher Wilson
Genres: early music, renaissance, lesser known yet streamable artists, Classical, vocal
Fretwork & The Choir Of Magdalen College, Oxford
About 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 More
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