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Mahler - Urlicht (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
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Imaginative, sensitive programming has been a constant feature of Ruby Hughes’s collaborations; and this latest with the perennially adventurous Manchester Collective is no exception...A disc... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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Special offer. Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
RecommendedAnne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, June 2011, First Choice
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Grammy Awards, 42nd Awards (1999), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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…outstandingly imaginative piano playing of Gerold Huber. He counterpoints voice and piano with the subtext within the settings, often with revelatory results. Both Gerhaher and Huber pace... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Building a Library, May 2023, Recommended Recording
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Fauré’s Après une rêve, Bruch’s Kol Nidrei and Brahm’s Vier ernste Gesänge performed on the trombone? Really? Well emphatically yes, when played with such intuitive phrasal sensitivity, intonational... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2018, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. 150th Anniversary Box - Mahler Complete Works
RecommendedCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Carlo Maria Giulini, Otto Klemperer, Paavo Järvi,...
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th July 2010
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I Wonder As I Wander
RecommendedBeethoven, Schubert, Mahler & Britten
James Newby (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
These are songs for the still grey skies of winter, filled with yearning for the other – whether a love unrequited or lost, a life that falls bitterly short, a homeland viewed from exile – coloured... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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These are all still exceptionally beautiful, valuable reminders of an extraordinary artist. — More…
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Ruby Hughes's singing is exceptional - light and delicate yet true. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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Schwanewilms's interpretations are regularly imaginative, her singing musicianly, though not all of her vocalism matches her good intentions. There's sometimes...an edge to her tone that combines... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Stephan Genz's light, warm and cultured baritone is especially fine in reflecting the ghost voices and moonlight serenades of Mahler's folk-inspired anthology. Yet more attack is surely needed... — More…