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Special offer. Schubert Revisited
RecommendedMatthias Goerne (baritone), Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
The virtue of the pianist Alexander Schmalcz’s orchestrations for baritone Matthias Goerne, his regular recital partner, is that he strives to hold faith with what he reads as Schubert ’s intentions,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th December 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Special offer. Lines of Life: Schubert & Kurtág
RecommendedBenjamin Appl (baritone), György Kurtág (piano), James Baillieu (piano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Csaba Bencze (trombone), Gergely Lukác (tuba)
Appl’s ever-expressive baritone is inf initely characterful here in these diverse settings. He is a thoughtful, revealing interpreter of Kurtág’s verse, and his own admission that he finds one... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Schubert: Nacht & Träume
RecommendedLieder with orchestra
Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor)
Insula orchestra & accentus, Laurence Equilbey
A surprisingly coherent musical experience. The revelation is the French composer Franck Krawczyk (b.1969) whose bubbling arrangement of An Sylvia had me smiling for days…Wiebke Lehmkuhl and... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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Special offer. Schubert: 15 Lieder
RecommendedChrista Ludwig, Geoffrey Parsons, Gervase de Peyer, Gerald Moore
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... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Special offer. Fischer-Dieskau Lieder A-Z: Schubert
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano), Jörg Demus (piano), Unknown (piano), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Alfred Brendel (piano), Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-sopranovocalist), Elly Ameling (soprano), Peter Schreier (tenor), Horst Laubenthal (tenor)
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Her dark, distinctive timbre, expressive colouring and fast-moving vibrato are heard at their best in Schubert, Mahler, Wolf and Brahms, although she also sings splendidly in Purcell’s Sound... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Réédition
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he sings this selection of Schubert's Goethe settings with keen attention to detail, youthful spontaneity, and an ample, attractive sound that is reminiscent of the fine-grained tone of baritone... — More…
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New. Lieder: Schumann / Mozart / Haydn / Beethoven / Schubert / Wolf
Julia Hamari (contralto, soprano), Erik Werba (piano)
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A voice more for Schöne Müllerin than Winterreise, Bostridge's fresh, buoyant, beautifully articulated tenor suits these Lieder perfectly. The literary and musical impulses are in perfect equilibrium,... — More…
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