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Both in his musical and literary responses, Christian Gerhaher leaves nothing unquestioned. Each word is weighed. Each note calibrated. Yet for all that, seemingly spontaneous and instinctive,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2018
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Male Singer of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Winner - Solo Vocal
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The qualities one values so much in Degout’s Fauré – the integration of text and line, his almost instinctive use of colour and dynamics, the uncompromising directness of expression – are those... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 24 & Kernerlieder, Op. 35
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (bass-baritone), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
There’s hardly an abrupt, harsh moment throughout. But Heinrich Heine’s suffering-infused words need more risk, edge and ugliness…In other words – not revelatory or devastating, but beautifully... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th April 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Winner - Vocal
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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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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It’s a repertoire that is perfectly matched to Bostridge’s gifts. Never a conventional lyric tenor, he remains in his maturity a superbly expressive singer...Giorgini is a sturdy companion on... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Vocal Music
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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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Wolfgang Holzmair & Imogen Cooper: Songs by Schumann & Reimann
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 14 December 2010
Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) & Imogen Cooper (piano)
Holzmair's way with Schumann has always been special: his light, soft-grained baritone senses out the half-tones, the shadows, the emotional fragility of the composer's Lieder...Cooper responds... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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The Songs of Robert Schumann - Volume 2
RecommendedSimon Keenlyside (baritone) & Graham Johnson (piano)
In his notes Graham Johnson says that what we have always lacked is a convincing way of performing late Schumann songs, often spare in texture and elusive in style. Well, he and Keenlyside seem... —
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Building a Library, October 2009, First Choice
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Hasselhorn’s ductile baritone, with its dark middle register and free-ringing top, is a fine, wholesome instrument; and he uses it with imagination and an unexaggerated relish for the German... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2020
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