SACD, Challenge Classics (label)
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This is clearly a well-honed performance, strongest in delicate moments....This new release is a happy marriage of musicality and musicology. — More…
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Early 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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No one undertakes a recording of Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues lightly, and Dutch pianist Hannes Minnaar engages an authoritative objectivity in running the ever-surprising gamut of... — More…
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Prégardien brings ever new revelation to the songs, and though his pianist, Michael Gees, plays a modern piano, both vocal and keyboard parts are ornamented in the performing practice of Schubert's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Aart Bergwerff opts for what is a typically Thuringian instrument of Bach’s time, and the Wiegleb organ of the Gumbertuskirche in Ansbach presents few ‘speech’ issues because although it was... — More…
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Horn Concertos: Christoph Forster, Carl Heinrich Graun, Johann Joachim Quantz
Frederick Franssen, Members of Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
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Brahms: Serenade No. 1 & Variations on a Theme by Haydn
The Hague Philharmonic, Jan Willem de Vriend
De Vriend emphasises the music’s rusticity while maintaining a tight grip on orchestral detail – an odd balance of exuberance and sobriety that, at its best, evokes a peasant scene by Bruegel.... — More…
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Complete Works for Piano Trio Vol. 5
Triple Concerto & Piano Trio in E flat major, Op. 38 after the Septet
Van Baerle Trio
Residentie Orkest The Hague, Jan Willem de Vriend
[Triple Concerto] From the very opening in the low strings there is immediately a magical feeling about this performance. It should go without saying that each of the soloists plays with absolute... — More…
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Weinberg & Britten: Violin Concertos
Linus Roth (violin)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Mihkel Kütson
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Editor's Choice
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