Wigmore Hall Live

The opening Schubert group demonstrates the baritone's natural and unaffected delivery - an ability to hold words and notes together in one single gesture - and his finely tuned vocalism, founded... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2009 More…

This recital had no name; but it is pungent with Intimations of Mortality. Allen's noble baritone now incarnates this awareness superbly, whether in the numb grief of Hugo Wolf's 'Harper' songs... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Antonacci and her scrupulous accmpanist Donald Sulzen, provide alert and imaginative accounts of all their material...Antonacci brings individuality to everything she sings, her colouristic... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Bostridge’s commitment to Schubert remains exceptional, as does, too, that of his marvellous colleague Julius Drake at the piano – a player of complete technical authority, and surely the tenor’s... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…this is one of the darkest, slowest Schwanengesangs on disc: there is a unique menace in the final 'Gute Nacht' of 'Kriegers Ahnung'; and 'In der Ferne' gives full, long weight to those six... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…