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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... —
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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... —
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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,... —
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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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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... —
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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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Schuen and pianist Daniel Heide take their place among the best, with special skills including an intimate understanding of the recording medium: this is more than an interpretation preserved... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Song
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The one to knock Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore from the pedestal … Johnson and Goerne plumb the emotional depths of one of the most heart-wrenchingly sublime masterpieces in the genre —
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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... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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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’. —
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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... —
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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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