Carolyn Sampson

Carolyn Sampson has been proclaimed "the best British early music soprano by some distance" by the editors of Gramophone magazine. Often performing and recording the music of Handel, she has also appeared on conductor Masaaki Suzuki's cycle of Bach cantatas and has recorded music of eras later than the Baroque. Sampson made her solo recording debut in 2004 with a pair of albums, one featuring love songs from Rameau's operas and the other of Handel's Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76. In 2005, Sampson recorded a newly discovered Bach cantata, Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' Ihn, BWV 1127, with Suzuki. In 2007, her performance at the Boston Early Music Festival production of Lully's Psyché was recorded and earned her a Grammy nomination. Sampson has appeared on more than 100 albums in all, including a recording of Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne in 2021.