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The persistent ‘Baroque specialist’ label hardly sums up this distinguished French soprano. With her distinctively radiant, secure tone and cut-crystal upper range, her repertoire has always... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Mélodie
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
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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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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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I’d suggest that not since Martin Isepp accompanied Janet Baker on that bargain Saga long-player from many moons ago has a British singer made a more auspicious recital debut on record. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Bernarda Fink proves conclusively here that she can be just as compelling in German song as she is in Baroque works. For a start few accounts of any of these pieces have been quite so beautifully... —
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Building a Library, June 2003, Modern Studio Recording Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2002, Editor's Choice
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Soaked in Colour. From Purcell to Queen
Anton Mecht Spronk, Paul Handschke, Payam Taghadossi, Zoltán Despond, Isabel Pfefferkorn
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Classic Without Limits
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Goerne is a virtuoso of the recording studio. He mostly keeps to a subdued, intimate murmur, and his molten legato is barely touched by consonants…Hinterhäuser’s flexible, tender accompaniment... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Gundula Janowitz - The Last Recital (In Memoriam Maria Callas)
Recorded Live at the Herodes Atticus Odeon, Athens, Greece, 16 September, 1999
Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Charles Spencer (piano)
[Janowitz] is in remarkably fresh voice throughout. There’s a certain loss of bloom, inevitably, and an occasional brittleness of intonation, but the unique sound is unmistakable, the delivery... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Re-issue of the Month
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Building a Library, March 2016, Also Recommended
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Songs to the Moon
Myrthen Ensemble: Mary Bevan (soprano), Clara Mouriz (mezzo), Allan Claytone (tenor), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
An engaging programme, mixing solos by each of the starry young singers with rare ensemble works. Pianist Joseph Middleton excels throughout. —
