ELLY AMELING

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" .....Elly Ameling always chooses her programs well. Here the sequence satisfies particularly happily, and each song is ideally suited to the singer. Her tone seems pure as ever, her intonation as true, her line as even, while the emotional resources of her art become richer with each passing year...."

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" ....Ameling proves what a versatile artist she can be. I particularly admired her utter fidelity to the score in the Ravel and her vocal control in sustained pianissimo passages, also a feature in Duparc's Invitation.... "

Gramophone.
Cover of an old LP with Dalton Baldwin

E lisabeth (Elly) Sara Ameling was born 8th February 1933 *) in Rotterdam. She studied with Bodi Rapp and Pierre Bernac. Her career started when she won the first prize during the Vocal Concours in 's Hertogenbosch in Holland (1956) and the "Concours International de Musique" in Geneva (1958). Since then tours have been leading her all over the world. For more than 40 years she performed in virtually every major cultural center in the world, from Tasmania to Iceland, from Nairobi on the Equator to Finland in the Arctic Circle. She has sung with prominent conductors as Carlo Maria Giulini, Bernard Haitink, André Previn, Edo de Waart, Seiji Ozawa and Wolfgang Sawallisch. Her many song recital tours with accompanists like Dalton Baldwin, Rudolf Jansen, Irwin Gage and Jörg Demus have been received with great enthusiasm by both public and music critics alike. She appeared in prestigious music festivals in Aix en Provence, Bergen, Caramoor, Edinburgh, Holland Festival, Sofia, Tanglewood and the Flemish Festival.


Elly AmelingHer repertoire (songs and works with orchestra) reaches from Monteverdi and Bach via Mozart,Schubert, Schumann Wolf and Debussy to composers of this century like Britten, Poulenc, Menotti and Gershwin. She has recorded more than 150 LP's and CD's with this extended repertoire. Many of them were awarded with an Edison (4x), the Grand Prix du Disque (3x) and the Preis der Deutsche Schallplattenkritik. She only sang three times in opera, in Mozart's Idomeneo, in the role of Ilia. Once under Haitink in a concert and twice on stage, Scheveningen, Circustheater, 1973 under Michael Gielen and in Amsterdam, Stadsschouwburg, 1976 under Hans Vonk. She has made numerous television and radio appearances. On of these television appearences - in the seventieth - was my first accquintance with Elly Ameling and with 'Lieder of Franz Schubert'. Since that particular evening I became, and I still am a great fan of both.

*) also 1934 and 1938 as birthday, were wrong published several times.

Elly, studying with Rudolf JansenElly Ameling was awarded an extra Edison for her entire phonographic oeuvre in 1995. Elly Ameling received honorary degrees from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada (1981), from Westminister Choir College at Princeton, New Jersey, USA (1985), from the Cleveland Institute of Music, USA (1986) and from the Shenandoa University in Washington DC, USA (1988). Elly Ameling has been knighted in the Order of Orange Nassau by her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands in 1971. Elly Ameling's 1995 farewell tour marked a milestone in a remarkable artistic career. Elly Ameling is in great demand throughout the world for her master classes for singers and their accompanists, during which they benefit from her insight and knowledge. Recently, she has begun to accept carefully selected post-graduate students who need only a few finishing touches before embarking on a performing career.
studying with Rudolf Jansen

Elly Ameling still lives in the Netherlands.

sound Du liebst mich nicht, F.Schubert


Discography Elly Ameling, mainly from the period (January 1, 1964 - January 1, 1978)
List in alphabetical order of composers.
  • C. Ph. E. Bach Magnificat (conductor Kurt Thomas) Harm. Mundi HMS30821
  • J. S. Bach Matthäus Passion, complete (Münchinger) Decca Set 288/91
  • Matthäus Passion, fragments (Münchinger) Decca SXL6272
  • Weihnachts Oratorium, complete (Münchinger) Decca Set346/8
  • Weihnachts Oratorium, fragments (Münchinger) Decca Set432
  • Ostern Oratorium nr. 249 (Münchinger) Decca Set 398
  • Magnificat/Kantate nr. 10: Meine Seel' erhebt den Herrn (Münchinger) Decca SXL 6400
  • Mass in b BWV 232 (Münchinger) Decca Set477-8
  • Kantates nr. 130,101 en 67 (Ansermet) Decca SXL 6392
  • Johannes Passion, complete (Gönnenwein) EMIC065-28951/3
  • Kantate nr. 79 Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott Kantate nr. 80 Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild
    (Gönnenwein) EMI SME 91657
  • Kantate nr. 140 Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Gönnenwein) EMI SME 91658
  • Kantate nr. 149 Man singet mit Freuden vom Sieg (Gönnenwein) EMI SME 91659
  • Kantate nr. 202 Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten Harm. Mundi HM 30672
  • Kaffee Kantate/ Bauern Kantate Harm. Mundi HM 30842
  • Aus dem Notenbüchlein (Leonhardt) Harm. Mundi HMS 30819
  • Kantate 209: Non sa che sia dolore met G. F. Handel: Pensieri notturni di Filli, titled as „Italienische Kantaten" Harm. Mundi HMS 30816
  • Kantate 106 Actus Tragicus met Telemann: Du aber Daniel Harm. Mundi HMS 30847
  • Kantate 51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, Kantate 199 Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut (Winschermann) Philips 6500 014
  • Kantate 32 Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen, Kantate 57 Selig ist der Mann (Winschermann)
    Philips 6580 267
  • Kantate 202 Weichet nur betrübte Schatten, Kantate 209 Non sa che sia dolore (Marriner)
    EMI 5C 063-02371
  • Kantate 147 Herz und Mund (Willcocks) EMI 5C 02230
  • Weihnachts Oratorium (Jochum) complete Philips 6703 037
  • Missa Brevis 235 en 236 (Winschermann) Philips 6780 012
  • Johannes Passion, complete (Münchinger) Decca Set 590-2
  • Weihnachts Oratorium, complete (Ledger) EMI IC 153-02 890-92
  • Elly Ameling zingt (sings) Bach Decca 6835 625

Elly Ameling, soprano

  • L. van Beethoven Mass in C op. 86 (Giulini) EMI lC 063-02124
  • J. Brahms Liederen (songs) (Norman Shetler) Harm. Mundi HMS 30883
  • A.Bruckner Te Deum (Haitink) Philips 802 759/60
  • D.Cimarosa Requiem (Negri) Philips LY 839 752
  • G. Fauré Mélodies intégrales (Souzay, Baldwin) EMI 165-12831/35
  • Requiem (Fournet)Philips 6500 968
  • G. F. Händel Motet: Silete venti,Kantate: Crudel tirano amor (Leppard), Aria: Piangero la sorte mia Philips 6580 268
  • Messiah, complete (Marriner) Argo D18 D3
  • J. Haydn Die Schöpfung (Münchinger) Decca Set 362/3
  • Orlando Paladino (Dorati) Philips 6707 029
  • 'Kleine Orgelmesse' (Münchinger) Decca SXL 6747
  • R. Heppener Cantico delle Creature Donemus DAVS6604
  • Liederen (Lieder/songs) (Dalton Baldwin) Philips 9500 398
  • Const. Huygens Pathodia sacra et profana EMI 161-25634/35
  • B. van Lier Hooglied (The Canticles) (Haitink) Donemus DAVS 6701
  • G. Mahler Symphony nr. 2 (Haitink) Philips LY 802884/5
  • Symphony nr. 4 (Haitink) Philips 6598 855
  • F. Mendelssohn Elias, complete (Sawallisch) Philips LY 802889/91
  • Cl. Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine, complete (Ledger) EMI187-02759/60 Q
  • W. A. Mozart Requiem (Kertesj) Decca Set 302
  • Requiem (Corboz) Erato STU 70943
  • Liederen(Lieder/songs) (Jörg Demus) EMI C 063-29024
  • Liederen (Lieder/songs) (Dalton Baldwin) Philips 6747 483
  • Concert- en Opera arias (De Waart) Philips 6500 544
  • Exsultate jubilate/ concert-arias (Leppard) Philips 6500 006
  • Notturni (members Ned.Blazers Ensemble) Philips 6747 136
 
Elly Ameling with Jörg Demus Elly Ameling
  • Fr. Poulenc Mélodies, complete (Souzay, Baldwin) EMI
  • Fr. Schubert Liederen (Lieder/songs) (Jörg Demus) EMI C 063-29025
  • Schubertiade (Jörg Demus) Harm. Mundi HMS 30696
  • Liederen (Lieder/songs) (Irwin Gage) EMI 5C 063-02253
  • Goethe/Mignon/ liederen (Lieder/songs) (Baldwin)Philips 6500 515
  • Liederen (Lieder/songs) (Baldwin) Philips 6500 704
  • Lieder für Gretchen, Ellen und Suleika (Baldwin) Philips 9500 169
  • Opera arias (De Waart) Philips 9500 170
  • Vokal Terzette (Gerald Moore) DGG 2530 409
  • Vocal Quartette (Gerald Moore) DGG 2530 361
  • R.Schumann Die alten lieben Lieder (Jörg Demus) Harm. Mundi 1C 065-99631
  • Liederen (Lieder/songs) (Jörg Demus) EMI C 063-02184
  • Frauenliebe und -Leben (Baldwin) Philips 6500 706
  • A. Vivaldi Juditha Triumphans,complete (Negri) Philips 6747173
  • HugoWolf Aus dem Italienisches Liederbuch 2 Mörike Lieder (Baldwin) Philips 802 919 LY
  • Italienisches Liederbuch, complete (Baldwin), with Gérard Souzay (bar.) Philips 6700 041
  • Mörike Lieder (Baldwin) Philips 6500 128
  • Some later recordings:
  • HugoWolf Italienisches Liederbuch, with Tom Krause (bar.) and Irwin Gage (piano) - CBS79258 - 1980.
  • Goethe Lieder (including the four Mignon Lieder ) and Keller Lieder/Rudolf Jansen (piano) - Etcetera KTC 1003 - 1982.
  • Liederen (Lieder/songs) from the Spanisches Liederbuch and 7 liederen (lieder/songs) on text by Mörike/Rudolf Jansen (piano) - Hyperion CDA 66788 (rec. date 12-16 September 1991).
  • mixed recors:
  • Elly Ameling sings favourite songs and encores(Baldwin) EMI 063 02375
  • Elly Ameling, Beeld van een zangeres (portrait of an singer) Philips 6833 105
  • Elly Ameling: Grosze Sopran-Arien Decca SMD 1181
  • Christmas Songs from Europe (Baldwin) EMI 5C 065-25716
  • Romantische Lieder (Romantic songs) (Baldwin) Philips 9500 350
  • A journey through song CBS


Currently available CD's and DVD:

  • Schubert songs. 4CD set by Elly Ameling . Philips Dutch Masters 464 334-2 This set is awarded with a 10 in 'Luister'.
  • Portrait of Elly Ameling. Songs of Schumann. Philips Dutch Masters 462 066-2
  • The Early Recordings. 4CD set by Elly Ameling.
    Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. 74321 26617-2
  • Nederlandse Diva's: A compilation cd - released by 'Kruidvat', on which Elly Ameling is represented with 4 aria's and 2 recitatives from the St Matthew Passion of Johann Sebastian Bach, more information at Compilations.
  • Kerst met Elly Ameling. 19 Christmas carols. Dutch, English, German and French repertoire. Original released in 1977. EMI BOSPCD 257 7243 5742362 5
  • The Artistry of Elly Ameling, Composers: Bach, Vivaldi,Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms,Wolf, Gershwin, Porter, Ellington.
    473 451-2 PB5    , International Release Date: February 2003 to honor her 70th birthday

Elly Ameling in masterclass
  • DVD To the Heart of Art Song with Elly Ameling in Masterclass.

    A lively account of famous soprano Elly Ameling teaching young talented singers and pianists at the Musical Academy of Villecroze in Southern France and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in The Netherlands.
    Length: 1'45" - includes english subtitled version. Released by 'Stichting Elly Ameling Fonds'

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