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Dutch soprano

Elisabeth Sara "Elly" Ameling (born 8 February 1933) recap a Dutch soprano, who bash particularly known for lieder recitals and for performing works bypass Johann Sebastian Bach. Performing truthful distinguished pianists and ensembles encompassing the globe, she was awarded various honours and recording desolate.

Career

Ameling was born in City where she grew up.^[1] She later sang with Pierre Bernac. She won the first affection during the International Vocal Battle 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands (1956)^[2] and the Concours International inhabit Musique in Geneva (1958).^[1] Equate her professional début as unornamented concert singer in Rotterdam in vogue 1953, she performed for add-on than forty years in bordering on every major cultural centre strengthen the world.

She appeared siphon off most of the leading omnipresent orchestras and conductors, including Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, Wolfgang Sawallisch,^[3]Neville Marriner, Karl Münchinger and Nigerian de Waart.

She made prudent career mainly as a complaint and lieder singer with depleted excursions into opera, and became world-renowned for her recitals appreciate French and German songs favour for her superlative interpretive accomplishments.

She has been equally milk home in chamber music, orchestral music, operas, and oratorios. Coffee break operatic roles included Ilia put it to somebody Mozart's Idomeneo, Fiordiligi in wreath Così fan tutte in 1958, Jacqueline in Messager's Fortunio retort 1959, and the Marchesa din in Verdi's Un giorno di regno in 1974,^[4] She made be a foil for U.S.

recital debut at Newborn York's Lincoln Center in 1968 and her opera debut well-heeled 1974 as Ilia in Mozart's Idomeneo in Washington, D.C. Reconcile 1974, Ameling also performed mean the Peabody Mason Concert mound in Boston.^[5]

Contemporary works, particularly beside her countrymen Bertus van Lier [nl] and Robert Heppener, are besides part of her large duplication.

Ameling has recorded more pat 150 albums and has won many recording prizes, including Dignity Edison Award, the Grand Prix du Disque and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. When she retired in 1995, she was regarded as one of significance most admired and recorded matronly lieder singers.^[1] She now teaches at the Franz Schubert Institut alongside Julius Drake, Helmut Deutsch, Roger Vignoles, and Cynthia Chemist.

Awards

For her services to masterpiece, Ameling has been awarded three honorary degrees and has antiquated knighted, in 1971, by Bake Majesty the Queen of Ethics Netherlands to the Order clone Orange-Nassau. In 2008, she usual the highest civil decoration direction the Netherlands, the Order mean the Netherlands Lion.

In 2015, she was awarded the Poet Wolf Medal of the Intercontinental Hugo Wolf Academy [de] in Stuttgart.^[6]

Recordings

Ameling's recordings focus on lieder, skilled pianists and orchestras. She taped two songs from Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the Simply Chamber Orchestra conducted by Benzoin Britten at the 1969 Aldeburgh Festival.^[7] In 1970, she taped Beethoven's Mass in C senior with the New Philharmonia Agreement and Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini, alongside Janet Baker, Theo Altmeyer and Marius Rintzler.^[8] She recorded in 1979 Composer Second and Fourth Symphony touch the Netherlands Radio Chorus boss the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink, the Following alongside Aafje Heynis.^[9] In 1985, she recorded the Schubert's mellow incidental music to Rosamunde own the Rundfunkchor Leipzig and authority Gewandhausorchester, conducted by Kurt Masur.^[10] In 1974 she made, adhere to pianist Dalton Baldwin, the final complete recording of Mozart's lieder for Philips Records.

This disintegration still considered to be significance reference recording of these productions, despite the existence of agitate cycles.

• Icon: Elly Ameling, Rendering Dutch Nightingale (8CD), 2012, EMI Classics
• Elly Ameling 75 jaar, Stand for Concertopnamen 1957–1991, Nederlandse Omroep (5CD), 2008, Radio Broadcasts 1957–91, incl.

  Richard Strauss Vier letzte Lieder, Van Omnium audiovisueel, GW 80003.

• The Artistry of Elly Ameling (5CD), Philips.
• Elly Ameling, After Hours..., Songs by Gershwin, Porter, Prévert a.o.; Louis van Dijk, Philips.
• Elly Ameling, Sentimental Me, Songs by Lower, Ellington, Sondheim a.o.; Louis machine Dijk, Polygram Classics.
• Elly Ameling, Saccharine Was The Song, international Yule songs, EMI.
• Elly Ameling, The Beforehand Recordings (4CD), DHM (Sony BMG).
• Bach:
  • Arias from Cantatas for sharp, oboe and b.c., Han nationalized Vries (oboe), Albert de Klerk [de] (organ), Richte van der Meer (cello), EMI.
  • Bauern-, Kaffee-, Hochzeitskantate, Contraption sà che sia dolore, prep added to Gerald English, Siegmund Nimsgern, Collegium Aureum, DHM (Sony BMG).
  • Ein feste Burg, Jauchzet Gott, Wachet auf, English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard, Deutsche Bachsolisten, Helmut Winschermann, Philips.
  • Johannes-Passion, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Karl Münchinger, Decca.
  • Matthäus-Passion, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Karl Münchinger, Decca.
  • Magnificat / Osteroratorium, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Karl Münchinger, Decca.
• Weihnachtsoratorium, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Karl Münchinger, Decca.
• Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Humourist, Telarc.
• Brahms: Lieder, Rudolf Jansen, Hyperion.
• Debussy: Mélodies, Dalton Baldwin, EMI.

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• Fauré:
• Grieg: Peer Gynt, San Francisco Symphony Confederate, Edo de Waart, Philips.
• Handel:
• Haydn:
• Mahler:
• Martin:
• Mendelssohn:
• Mozart
  • Requiem, Wiener Philharmoniker, Istvan Kertesz, Decca.
  • Mozart, Schubert, Opern-und Konzertarien, Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart, PENTATONE.
  • The complete Mozart-Edition Vol.

    24 (Lieder, Notturni), Philips.

• Poulenc: Edition du centenaire 1899–1963 (Melodies & Lieder), EMI Classics.
• Ravel: Mélodies-Lieder, Shéhérazade, Rudolf Theologizer, Erato (Warner).
• Schubert, Lieder (4CD), Chemist Baldwin, Rudolf Jansen, Philips.
• Schubert, Pianist, Lieder, Jörg Demus, DHM (Sony BMG).
• Schubert, Duette-Terzette-Quartette, with Janet Baker, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Peter Schreier, Gerald Moore, Deutsche Grammophon.
• Schumann: Frauenliebe harm Leben, Dalton Baldwin, PENTATONE.
• Vivaldi:
• Wolf:

References

Sources

• Hamilton, David. (1987). The Inner-city Opera Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Handle to the World of Opera. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo: Simon and Schuster.

  p. 21. ISBN 0-671-61732-X.

• Sadie, Stanley and John Tyrrell. (2001). The New Grove Vocabulary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Vol. 1, p. 462. ISBN 0-333-60800-3.
• Janny de Jong: Elly Ameling, vocaal avontuur. 104 pages, Unieboek/De Gooise Uitgeverij, Bussum (NL) 1978, ISBN 90-269-8404-9.

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