Benjamin Appl

Appl is not only a singer of boundless promise, he is already a great artist. This disc shows how versatile he is, with not only great Lieder but interesting rarities too...Appl sounds as if... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Forbidden, yet seldom forbidding, Appl’s exquisitely cultivated fruits are ripe for plucking, and deserve to be consumed with unalloyed relish! — BBC Music Magazine, September 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The baritone’s voice, not a large, juicy or powerful instrument, is helped by the engineers (in performance, balance can be a major issue with these arrangements), allowing us to hear plenty... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…

Appl offers a fine baritone with a good range and an ability to characterise skilfully – each of the Three Kings in turn in ‘Epiphanias’, for instance; throughout he is acutely observant of... — BBC Music Magazine, Octob 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It’s a heterogeneous selection, ranging from a relatively straight realisation of the final, unfinished Contrapunctus from Bach’s Art of Fugue, to baroque treatments of four Beatles numbers...It... — The Guardian, 16th January 2020 More…

Insight for insight Appl is more than matched by his pianist James Baillieu, a storyteller to his staccato-cherishing fingertips…In their mutually enriching symbiosis Schubert’s journey emerges... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Appl has a baritone voice with its own character and a natural appreciation of the essentials of singing Lieder…he floats through Mendelssohn’s beautifully rippling ‘Schwanenlied’ with mellow... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2016 More…

What’s most surprising is the humour. Appl is, by instinct, a musical storyteller and he brings a raconteur’s enjoyment to the musical battle between Apollo and Pan…Concerto Köln provide a skilled... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 More…