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Even Bostridge’s sometimes jarring crescendos sound as bleak cries from the hollowed soul. There is a terrifying icy detachment in Adès’s evocative touch. Above it, Bostridge’s weary wanderer... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd August 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year
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Kaufmann has come to this music at the right time...Each of these 24 songs is stamped with integrity and seriousness of purpose...The most striking qualities are its artless simplicity, its... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Solo Vocal
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…I cannot think of one (not even Fischer-Dieskau in his 1965 recording with Jörg Demus) that leads more faithfully to the cold comfort at its end. And when we get there in this performance,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th October 2009
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Solo Vocal
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What is so striking about Pears's performance is its intensity. One continually has the sense of a live occasion...As for Britten, he recreates the music, sometimes with a fair freedom from... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Die schöne Müllerin / Schwanengesang / Winterreise
Michael Gees, Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (early keyboard instruments)
My desert-island choice for a highly cultivated yet quite personal tenor-voice foray into Schubert’s world. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Perhaps more than any other recording the singer and the pianist are in equilibrium...if often sounds as if Julius Drake has just had an idea - and they are all good ones - and Gerald Finley... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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The result really is something special, a performance of growing intensity and concentration, which gradually exerted an iron grip on me as listener – right up until a deeply moving ‘Der Leiermann’. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Song
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This is the voice of an older Pregardien: he has the grey hair for which Schubert's lonely wanderer longs. But the voice is in superb form, sensing out the underlying pulse and the minutest... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Schubert: Winterreise, Op. 89, D911
Peter Mattei (baritone), Lars David Nilsson (piano)
An intelligent and vividly communicative artist whose rich, healthy singing is difficult to resist. With sturdy support from Lars David Nilsson, he performs the cycle with the sort of directness... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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