Anna Prohaska
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a maddening, fascinating and often bewitching disc —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Recital
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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George Benjamin: Picture a Day Like This
RecommendedMarianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano), Beate Mordal (soprano), Cameron Shahbazi (countertenor), John Brancy (baritone), Anna Prohaska (soprano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, George Benjamin
Less is more in Picture a day like this with a cast of five and just 22 instrumentalists from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. With every word of the text set to be heard, Marianne Crebassa is... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2024, Opera Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Contemporary
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Across the whole cycle their intuitive rapport never falters and, feeding off each other, the sparks they generate meld the fragments into something greater than the sum of their parts...Kurtág... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th August 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrumental
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Eve finds her voice as Prohaska and Drake navigate Eden’s bright spots and murkier corners. A heady selection of songs to intoxicate the senses; vivid storytelling and musicality. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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A Dies Irae is an apt place for Prohaska to begin her musically wide-ranging exploration of ‘life in death’, and the gloom is leavened by lightness elsewhere. There are early musical delights,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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Prohaska’s communicative voice is, by-and-large, pleasing, even though my sensibilities were sometimes disturbed by her inclination towards over-emphasis...The instrumentalists of Lautten Compagney... —
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Kožená teams up with crack period band La Cetra, whose virtuoso solo contributions are a delight, yet the voice isn't quite what it was - more diffuse, painting with broader tonal brushstrokes.... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Weber
Martin Helmchen (piano), Anna Prohaska (soprano), Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Christoph Eschenbach
In these performances with the admirable Konzerthaus Orchestra, what emerges above all is the uniquely glowing sound of Weber’s orchestration, with its very special use of horns and winds. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
RecommendedAnna Prohaska (soprano) & Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
Bernhard Forck and the orchestra balance the various emotions with skill...[the Salve Regina] is an attractive piece of no great profundity. —
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Building a Library, October 2020, Also Recommended
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the musical journey is compelling...Only an arrangement for strings of Lotti’s most famous Crucifixus feels like a misstep in an otherwise ingeniously plotted project delivered with panache... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Female Singer of the Year
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