Julius Drake
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Janáček: The Diary of One Who Disappeared
Recommended& other works
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Václava Housková (mezzo), VOICE, Victoria Samek (clarinet)
This excellently recorded performance is strikingly direct. The ebb and flow of the drama is brilliantly captured. Nicky Spence’s tenor is flexible across a huge range…Drake’s accompaniment... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2019
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Record Review, 6th July 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Special offer. Robert & Clara Schumann: Works for Oboe and Piano
Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Julius Drake (piano)
Played with such warmth and eloquence, the arrangements chosen here often feel as if they were tailor-made for the instrument, while the sensitive programming paints a loving portrait of the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2024, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Winner - Chamber
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As on his 2005 Ives collection, the Canadian baritone Gerald Finley is golden in tone, persuasive in phrasing, and unfailingly responsive to the sound and sense of the words. Julius Drake once... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge & other songs
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Timothy Ridout (viola)
Piatti Quartet
The famous cycle On Wenlock Edge (1909) has of ten been recorded, but this is a fine rendering with ‘Bredon Hill’ providing some particularly sublime moments. As always Julius Drake’s accompanying... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Dvořák: Stabat Mater
version for soloists, choir and piano
Julia Kleiter (soprano), Gerhild Romberger (mezzo), Dmitry Korchak (tenor), Tareq Nazmi (bass), Julius Drake (piano)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Howard Arman
The excellent Bavarian Radio Chorus are encouraged to phrase accordingly, and the advantages of a compact, professional chorus in a work usually belonging to the choral-society tradition make... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Romberger)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Nazmi)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 2 - Angelika Kirchschlager
RecommendedAngelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano) & Julius Drake (piano)
Kirchschlager's rich, resonant mezzo finds beauties everywhere on this disc, from heights of drama to imtimacies of reflection, and at every turn Drake is with her. I particularly like the way... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Vocal Award Winner
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Sherratt possesses that rare gift – a genuine bass voice that carries its lyrical, expressive clarity from its ringing high notes right down to a full-toned basso profundo delivered without... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Song
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Ives - Romanzo di Central Park
RecommendedGerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano), Magnus Johnston (violin)
…outstandingly well sung and played, equally well recorded, and highly recommendable to all lovers of fine songs and fine singing. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, Choral & Song Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Britten: Songs & Proverbs of William Blake
Recommendedand other songs
Gerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano)
[Finley] just seems to be singing naturally, but at the same time he colors and inflects with astonishing specificity. He manages to vary the repeats in those folk-song settings where verses... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Solo Vocal
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New. Fauré: La Bonne Chanson & Other Songs
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Piatti Quartet
The cycle’s nine songs form an irrepressible exclamation of love bursting through the composer’s customary nonchalance. […] This is Fauré for the concert hall rather than the drawing room, big-hearted,... — More…
