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Lieder
RecommendedFatma Said (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Joseph Middleton (piano), Huw Montague Rendall (baritone), Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Anneleen Lenaerts (harp), Quatuor Arod
listeners who fear a trudge through long-flattened terrain need not worry. This approach reveals new features in the landscape...Said’s voice is recorded to maximise intimacy of sound. She takes... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th February 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th August 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Hasselhorn’s emotional range is formidable, alive to the power of a single carefullycoloured inflection within the arc of a perfectly-shaped line. Spurred on by Middleton, the acuity of the... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year
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Ludwig presents them with disarming dedication and to hear the hackneyed Ave Maria sung like this is to realise afresh the beauty which all too often is jellied over with sentiment. Gervase... —
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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With Gerald Moore (who returned to the studio out of retirement especially for the occasion) still at this finest, this is a hugely satisfying collection...There are no texts, but this remains... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Arcayurek’s tenor voice has a pleasing baritonal hue to it, and there’s plenty of dramatic oomph when necessary, too. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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To my mind, these previously unreleased BBC broadcasts from the late 1950s and early ‘60s contain some of Pears’s most alluring singing on record: highlights include an elegant ‘Hark, hark the... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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Schubert in English Vol. 4
Roderick Williams (baritone), Rowan Pierce (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano)
There’s nothing at all reverential about Jeremy Sams’s translations of the 21 songs here. They are witty, fit the music like an expensive glove and tell good stories, but, importantly, they... —
