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Paul Agnew and Christopher Wilson
8+ albums
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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. Wilso
top songs
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A Musical Banquet: Lady if you so spight me
7382A Pilgrimes Solace: Though mightie God - When Davids life by Saul - When the poore Criple
5273The Third and Last Booke: Behold a wonder heere
3984The Third and Last Booke: Time stands still
3805O deere life shall it be
3526So, so breake off this last lamenting kisse
2327The Third and Last Booke: When Phoebus first did Daphne love
1758A Pilgrimes Solace: If that a Sinners sighes be Angels foode
1409A Pilgrimes Solace: Stay time a while thy flying
8710In a grove most rich of shade
76albums
Dowland: In Darknesse Let Me Dwell
O Sweet Woods the Delight of Solitarienesse - Lovesongs & Sonnets of John Donne & Sir Philip Sidney
Lanier: Hero & Leander
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O Sweet Woods the Delight of Solitarienesse - Lovesongs & Sonnets of John Donne & Sir Phili
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O Sweet Woods the Delight of Solitarienesse - Lovesongs Sonnets of John Donne Sir Philip Sidney
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Dowland Volume I: Songs Book I and Book II
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In Darknesse Let Me Dwell: John Dowland Volume 2
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Lanier: Hero Leander