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The Captive Nightingale
Various composers

Elena Xanthoudakis

The Captive Nightingale

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212039823
Catnr: SIGCD 398
Release date: 16 September 2016
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Signum Classics
UPC
0635212039823
Catalogue number
SIGCD 398
Release date
16 September 2016
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Australian soprano Elena Xanthoudakis is forging her career in Europe to many accolades. She has been described as “intoxicating with her cut-diamond clarity of tone, elegant legato, even crescendos and aching trills.” (Herald Sun) Accompanied by clarinetist Jason Xanthoudakis and pianist Clemens Leske, brilliant musicians in their own right, this new album from Signum features German romantic pieces for soprano, clarinet, and piano. Especially intriguing amongst these titles, are three world premier recordings: Die gefangene Nachtigall (The Captive Nightingale), Er, der Herrlichste von allen (He, the Noblest of All), and Der Hirt und das Meerweib (The Shepherd and the Mermaid).
Romantische rariteiten voor sopraan, klarinet en piano
De veelzijdige Australische sopraan Elena Xanthoudakis is een expressieve musici die door de recensenten geprezen wordt om haar boeiende en aantrekkelijke uitvoeringen. Haar concertrepertoire reikt van de Mis in b klein van Bach tot aan de Vier Letzte Lieder van Richard Strauss. Ze heeft opgetreden op verschillende concerten en recitals in binnen- en buitenland, onder andere in Sint Petersburg, Hong Kong, Montreal, Italië en Duitsland. Daarnaast heeft ze samengewerkt met operagezelschappen als English National Opera, Opera de Quebec, Victorian Opera, en Opera National du Rhin, in uitvoeringen van opera’s van onder andere Mozart, Rossini, Janáček en Glass.

Op dit album voegt ze zich bij klarinettist Jason Xanthoudakis en pianist Clemens Leske om enkele verloren juweeltjes uit het Duitse Romantische kamermuziek- en liedrepertoire uit te voeren. Het bevat werken van componisten als Lachner, Späth, Proch, Lindtpaintner en Kalliwoda, die zelden tot nooit op album zijn uitgebracht.

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Elena Xanthoudakis (soprano)

Award winning and versatile soprano, Elena Xanthoudakis is an expressive performer whose enthusiastic reviews speak of her captivating and engaging performances. Recent performances included performing Nino Rotas’ Mysterium with the Verdi Orchestra in Milan, performing in a Gala Tribute concert for Maria Callas in the Herodion Atticus at the foot of the Acropolis, Athens with the Greek National Opera and another Maria Callas Gala, this time at the al-Bustian festival in Lebanon.  Other recent performances include Gilda in Opera Queensland’s new production of Rigoletto for which she received exceptional reviews, the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor for Winslow Hall, September 2014, again to enthusiastic acclaim. In 2014, Elena also performed in a series of concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as recitals and concerts in London, including a ‘Winter...
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Award winning and versatile soprano, Elena Xanthoudakis is an expressive performer whose enthusiastic reviews speak of her captivating and engaging performances.

Recent performances included performing Nino Rotas’ Mysterium with the Verdi Orchestra in Milan, performing in a Gala Tribute concert for Maria Callas in the Herodion Atticus at the foot of the Acropolis, Athens with the Greek National Opera and another Maria Callas Gala, this time at the al-Bustian festival in Lebanon. Other recent performances include Gilda in Opera Queensland’s new production of Rigoletto for which she received exceptional reviews, the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor for Winslow Hall, September 2014, again to enthusiastic acclaim. In 2014, Elena also performed in a series of concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as recitals and concerts in London, including a ‘Winter Prom’ at St John Smith Square in December 2014 where she performed Mozart’s rarely performed masterpiece, the concert aria “Ch’io mi scordi di te” Op. 505 with concert pianist Jayson Gillham and orchestra.

Up coming performances include her debut as Violetta in La Traviata for Winslow Hall, her debut as Maria Stuarda, and Pamina in The Magic Flute for Opera de Quebec, as well Elena will perform Bach’s cantata ‘Weichet Nur” BWV 202 for the Melbourne Musicians.

2013 performances included a return to the British Music Festival to sing Sullivan’s Golden Legend and her return to the Metropolitan Opera, New York to cover both Gilda in Rigoletto and Countess Adele in Comte Ory, Mozart’s Requiem for the Melbourne Symphony, as well as singing First Niece in Peter Grimes for the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome.

2012 began with performances with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra New Year’s concerts with Nicholas McGegan, and returns in February for Beethoven’s Mass in C with Louis Langrée, followed by a concerts in Australia to promote the CD release ‘The Shepherd and the Mermaid’ with TrioKROMA (piano, voice and clarinet). She then made her Glyndebourne debut as Clorinda La Cenerentola, as well as performing Carmina Burana for the Oxford Philharmusica, singing Delius’s 7 Danish Orchestral Songs for the British Music Festival. Elena then returned to the English National Opera as Pamina in The Magic Flute to excellent acclaim and performed Carmina Burana at the Royal Albert Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

2011 saw Elena Xanthoudakis perform Messiah with the RSNO, Marzelline Fidelio with the OAE, and Strauss’ Four Last Songs at the Brighton Festival and covering Countess Adele Le Comte Ory for the Metropolitan Opera of New York. She performed Jemmy Guillaume Tell (BBC Proms) with Pappano and the Accademia di Santa Cecila and sang both Lisa and Amina Sonnambula at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Other successes include her Canadian debut at Opera de Quebec as Lucia di Lammermoor, Frasquita Carmen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (‘07,’09,’11), Adina L’elisir d’amore for Scottish Opera and Victorian Opera, Miss Schlesen Satyagraha at ENO (2007 & 2010), Euridice and Genio in Haydn’s L’anima del Filosofo for Pinchgut Opera – 2010.


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