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From Roger Vignoles's first light-filled notes in 'Bei mir sind meine Gedanken', with Bernada Fink's smiling, wide-eyed voice, these performers make it sound as though the ink is still wet on... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Solo
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 2 (Christine Schäfer)
Christine Schäfer (soprano) & Graham Johnson (piano)
[in the Ophelia songs] Schäfer is ideally cast: she sings them very much as a singing actress would, artful in her apparent artlessness, and meticulous of diction...[the Madchenlieder's] pungent... —
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Brahms: Lieder & Liebeslieder Waltzes
RecommendedRecorded live at the 2003 Verbier Festival
Andrea Rost (soprano), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone), Yefim Bronfman & James Levine (piano duet), James Levine
The quartet themselves make an appealingly lively sound…Quasthoff and especially Kozena are strongest in their solo selections, the mezzo’s three songs distinguished by her plangent tone and... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th June 2016
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Lotte Lehmann – A 125th Birthday Tribute (Live)
Lotte Lehmann (soprano), Ernö Balogh (piano), Paul Ulanowsky (piano), Bruno Walter (narrator), Bruno Walter (piano), Lotte Lehmann (reader), Lotte Lehmann (narrator)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, NBC Symphony Chorus, RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra, Frank Black, Nathaniel Shilkret, Richard Lert
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, Re-issue of the Month
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Birdsong
Music by Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann & Sally Beamish
Roderick Williams (baritone), Andrew West (piano)
a delectable programme, eloquently sung. —
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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... —
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Réédition
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The Shepherd on the Rock
Chamber Works & Lieder
Julian Bliss (clarinet), Christopher Glynn (piano), Ailish Tynan (soprano)
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A beautiful production of 31 best-loved songs, in lightly held, instinctive and intimate performances. A breath of the freshest musical air. —
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Donna Brown is an ideal singer, a feverish and smooth performer, true and poetic —
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