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What we have is a fine, detailed performance – and it includes the disputed cymbal clash at the climax of the great slow movement, music to celebrate and mourn Richard Wagner – and an account... — More…
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Record Review, 6th November 2021, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Wolf, H: Italienisches Liederbuch
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julia Kleiter (soprano) & Hilko Dumno (piano)
Both Prégardien and Kleiter (with their excellent pianist Hilko Dumno aiding and abetting) offer larger than life portrayals...Prégardien, with his baritonic tenor, finds the measure of each... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Vocal Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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This is the voice of an older Pregardien: he has the grey hair for which Schubert's lonely wanderer longs. But the voice is in superb form, sensing out the underlying pulse and the minutest inflections... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, Editor's Choice
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Schubert - Schwanengesang & Songs After Seidl
RecommendedChristoph Prégardien (tenor) & Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
…an outstanding performance. …deeply engaged robustly expressive singing whose rhythmic rigour and details of phrasing and articulation reveal an exciting commitment to this great cycle. …with... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, February 2019, Also Recommended
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Willem Jeths: Requiem
Andreas Wolf, Kelly God
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, James Gaffigan
This is a powerful performance, with the orchestra and organ at full force and well balanced with the choir. Bass baritone Andreas Wolf is excellent—his intonation is spot-on and his tone focused,... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
Sigiswald Kuijken (direction & violin, gamba, viola d’amore), Christoph Genz (Evangelist/tenor arias), Jens Hamann (Jesus/baritone arias), Gerlinde Samann (soprano), Petra Noskaiová (mezzo)
La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
This 'choir' provides heartfelt congregational ardour in chorales, the hysterical ferocity of a crowd thirsting for blood, and objective commentary as onlookers in the opening and closing choruses.... — More…
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Die schöne Müllerin / Schwanengesang / Winterreise
Michael Gees, Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (early keyboard instruments)
My desert-island choice for a highly cultivated yet quite personal tenor-voice foray into Schubert’s world. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Vasks’s desolate, contemplative soundworld seems all too appropriate for current times. Rowland captures the spirit with aplomb here. — More…
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