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Lieder: Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (bass-baritone), Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Goerne and the equally probing Daniil Trifonov – a true conversational partner – seem to conceive the whole programme as a brooding mega-cycle on the human condition. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2022, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
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Schumann - Dichterliebe & other Heine settings
RecommendedGerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano)
Isserlis's mobile, feeling but never gushing legato lines… Hough's winged, crystalline partnership. —
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Building a Library, June 2010, Featured
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Solo Vocal
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A Poet's Love
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet and Schumann: Dichterliebe
Timothy Ridout (viola), Frank Dupree (piano)
This is supreme vindication of what musical imagination can do, even to works unfamiliar from their original formats. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Kaufmann and pianist Helmut Deutsch take a brisk no-nonsense approach to Dichterliebe, eschewing the poetic affectations that can mar readings of Schumann's cycle...There's not a foot-fault... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th September 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2025, Video Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Audiovisual Music Production
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Responsive to Schumann's elaboration of the postlude as a means of commenting or emotional elucidation, Werner hitches an extinguishing coda to the last song that dovetails exquisitely into... —
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Listeners who know Dichterliebe intimately, and think they know the Schumanns pretty well, will discover many fresh delights. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Bostridge makes you think anew about the music in hand, interpreting all these songs as much through the mind of the poet as that of the composer, and, being youthful himself, getting inside... —
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Building a Library, June 2010, Featured
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Solo vocal
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Building a Library, April 2017, First Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year (Bohórquez)
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Schumann: The Complete Songs
RecommendedThe Lieder of Robert Schumann in chronological order
Juliane Banse, Edith Barlow, Katherine Broderick, Stella Doufexis, Felicity Lott, Geraldine McGreevy, Dorothea Röschmann, Kate Royal, Christine Schäfer, Lydia Teuscher (soprano), Daniela Lehner, Ann Murray, Leigh Woolf (mezzo-soprano), Ian Bostridge, Mark Padmore, Nicky Spence, Adrian Thompson, Adrian...
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Solo vocal
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Building a Library, October 2022, Also Recommended - Myrthen
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The Songs of Robert Schumann - Volume 5
RecommendedDichterliebe and other Heine settings
Christopher Maltman (baritone) & Graham Johnson (piano)
With this superbly executed recital Maltman leaps in a single bound into the front rank of Lieder interpreters today. Seemingly inspired by the wonderful programme, he executes it with bitingly... —
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Building a Library, June 2010, Featured
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2001, Editor's Choice
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