Julian Prégardien
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JS Bach: Matthäus-Passion
RecommendedJulian Prégardien (Evangelist), Stéphane Degout (Christus), Sabine Devieilhe & Hana Blažiková (sopranos), Lucile Richardot (mezzo), Tim Mead (countertenor), Reinoud Van Mechelen & Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenors), Christian Immler (bass-baritone)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
The choirs are razor-sharp in their ensemble, and if they seem initially soft-grained (in keeping with Pichon’s essentially intimate approach), their incisiveness eventually locates real venom... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th April 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year and Choral Award
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Building a Library, October 2022, Also Recommended
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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JS Bach: Johannes-Passion
RecommendedJulian Prégardien (Evangelist), Huw Montague Rendall (Jesus), Ying Fang (soprano), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Etienne Bazola (baritone), Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
You feel it in the gut like few other accounts, alongside unalloyed human observation and unyielding quality. Pygmalion have now served us with a trilogy of Bach masterpieces throwing down the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th March 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Recording of the Month
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New. JS Bach: Johannes-Passion
RecommendedJulian Prégardien (Evangelist), Huw Montague Rendall (Jesus), Ying Fang (soprano), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Laurence Kilsby (tenor), Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Etienne Bazola (baritone)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
You feel it in the gut like few other accounts, alongside unalloyed human observation and unyielding quality. Pygmalion have now served us with a trilogy of Bach masterpieces throwing down the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th March 2026
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Recording of the Month
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Schubert: Schwanengesang & String Quintet
RecommendedJulian Prégardien, Martin Helmchen, Christian Tetzlaff, Florian Donderer, Rachel Roberts, Tanja Tetzlaff, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
There is much to enjoy in this highly perfumed Schubert disc…Prégardien’s relatively light tenor makes the most of the intimacy to which these brief masterpieces are well suited…At the piano,... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2021, Nouveauté
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Building A Library, March 2022, Also Recommended
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As the young man’s love turns from joy to frustration and finally despair Prégardien seems to diagnose schizophrenia with the voice bullishly confident and then almost hollowed out and drained... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Song
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Listeners who know Dichterliebe intimately, and think they know the Schumanns pretty well, will discover many fresh delights. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2019
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Gwendoline Blondeel (soloist), Cyril Auvity (soloist), Marie Perbost (soloist), Paul Figuier (soloist), Julian Prégardien (soloist), Vlad Crosman (soloist), Luc Bertin-Hugault (soloist), Eva Zaïcik (soloist), Luigi De Donato (soloist), Les Épopées, Stéphane Fuget
this second release in the group’s Monteverdi opera series abundantly shows the value in baroque repertoire of being theatrical and throwing discretion to the winds...none of Fuget’s singers... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Schubertiade: Julian Prégardien
Julian Prégardien (tenor & recitation), Marc Hantaï (transverse flute), Philippe Pierlot (baryton) & Xavier Diaz-Latorre (guitar)
a captivating and most artfully programmed recital in which Pregardien’s tenor is lightly suspended over a guitar’s gentle strumming —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Vocal Recital
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Christoph & Julian Prégardien - Father & Son
Christoph Prégardien, Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano), Fabienne Waga, Patricia Messner (harmonica)
a real treasure...What makes this anthology so enriching is the skill of their arrangements...The two tenors of father and son - shared DNA, complementary tints and timbres - blend with grace... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
RecommendedMari Eriksmoen (Blondchen), Robin Johannsen (Konstanze), Maximilian Schmitt (Belmonte), Julian Prégardien (Pedrillo), Dimitry Ivashchenko (Osmin), Cornelius Obonya (Bassa Selim)
RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs
Here’s another Mozart Singspiel recreated as an audio-drama, with both René Jacobs’s intensely musical direction, orchestral playing tingling with character and detail...Dimitry Ivashchenko‘s... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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