“Sophie Klussmann has an enviable career, covering various Wagner and Mozart operas and even a substantial contribution to music of our own century; but hitherto she seems to have sung nothing earlier than 1600. On the other hand, she is one of those singers who can do anything, and has no trouble adapting her voice to the needs of a particular repertory. She sings this music with absolutely flawless panache and style, benefiting in addition from excellent elocution of both French and Italian texts.”
(David Fallows, Gramophone UK)
“Sophie Klussmann produces exquisitely subtle and precious wisps of sound, recalling that the heart and soul of these snapshots very often remains the matter of love. Her dark gold timbre hints at the eternal in the one piece in the programme whose text is of a religious nature, the sublime, questioning prayer Se mai per maraveglia.”
(Robert Aubry Davis, Millenium of Music, USA)
Werke von John Dowland, Claude de Sermisy, Bartolomea Tromboncino, und Franz Schubert
chansons & frottole
Sophie Klussmann - soprano
Hopkinson Smith - lute
6-course lute made by Joël van Lennep (Boston, 1977)