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Artist
Clint van der Linde
11+ albums
about
A native of South Africa, Clint started singing as a boy soprano in the Drakensberg Boys' Choir School in 1988. After studying at the university of Pretoria in 1996, he was offered an International Scholarship to spend a year at Eton College. During this year Clint was offered a Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Scholarship to study for a BMus degree course at the Royal College of Music. Clint has sung much of Bach's music and has worked as soloist on both the St Matthew Passion and St John Passion under the direction of Peter Schreier. He has also on two occasions appeared as soloist with the Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment singing Bach's Mass in b Minor. At the end of 1998 he was awarded first prize of the Cathleen Fernier Bursary for Young Singers. For the past three years Clint, as a countertenor, was offered the lead role in the London Handel Festival's productions of Handel's Lotario (1999), Ottone (2000) and Flavio (2001). User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 51, Erbarm es Gott!
112St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 52, Können Tränen meiner Wangen
113Il pastor fido, HWV 8a: XVIII. Act I, Scene vii, Aria "Casta Dea, a te divoto" (Silvio)
94Hostes averni: IV. Alleluia
85St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 2: No. 39, Erbarme dich, mein Gott, um meiner Zähren Willen
76Il pastor fido, HWV 8a: XIX. Act I, Scene vii-a, Recit. "Tu sola, oh bella Diva" (Silvio, Dorinda)
77Il pastor fido, HWV 8a: XXII. Act I, Scene viii, Aria "Non vo' legarmi il cor" (Silvio)
68Queen of the Night
59Il pastor fido, HWV 8a: XXXI. Act II, Scene vi, Recit. "Vanne lungi da me!" (Silvio, Dorinda)
310Il pastor fido, HWV 8a: XXXII. Act II, Scene vi, Aria "Sol nel mezzo risuona del core" (Silvio)
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