Barbara Schlick

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Barbara Schlick [b. July 21, 1943 - Würzburg, Germany] The admired German soprano, Barbara Schlick, studied at the College of Music in Würzburg with Henriette Klink-Schneider and with Hilde Wesselmann in Essen, later with Gisela Rohmert and Rudolf Piernay. In 1966 Barbara Schlick joined Adolf Scherbaum’s Baroque ensemble as a soloist, and began to sing widely in Europe. In 1972 she toured North America as soloist with Paul Kuentz and his chamber orchestra. In subsequent years she established a strong international reputation as an interpreter of baroque and classic music, performing in nearly all of the important musical centres of Europe, Israel, Japan, Canada, America and Russia. At noted festivals of early music (Ansbach, Berlin, Bruges, Göttingen, Lisbon, London, Paris) she has worked together with directors such as Frans Brüggen, William Christie, Michel Corboz, Reinhard Goebel, Philippe Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Ton Koopman, Sigiswald Kuijken and Karl Friedrich Beringer. Barbara Schlick's interpretations are comprehensively documented through radio, television, and CD-recordings, among others G.P. Telemann’s cantata ‘Ino’ with Musica Antiqua Cologne (Archiv Produktion), J.S. Bach’ St John Passion (BWV 245), St Matthew Passion (BWV 244), B minor Mass (BWV 232) and Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) under Philippe Herreweghe, as well as G.F. Händel’s opera ‘Giulio Cesare’ under René Jacobs (Harmonia Mundi France). Together with the counter-tenor Kai Wessel she has recorded so

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Bach: Cantatas 180, 49, 115

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Bach: Mass in B Minor

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J.S. Bach : Christmas Oratorio

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Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Weihnachts-Oratorium)

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Bach : Cantatas

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Bach Mass in B minor

Tomaso Albinoni, Complete Cantatas Op. 4 cd

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J.S. Bach: Magnificat, Bwv 243

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Handel: Giulio Cesare

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Bach: Cantates

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Bach : Masses BWV 233-235, Sanctus BWV 238

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Haendel : Le Messie

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