CD, Loewe, C (composer)
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An enchanting, engrossing and impeccably recorded album. With it, Krimmel takes another big step towards quietly establishing himself as one of the most compelling lieder interpreters performing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2024, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Boesch's performance...demonstrates huge imaginative variety in characterisation (offering two different voices when necessary, or even three in Loewe's setting of Erlkonig), and moving convincingly... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Vocal Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2011, Editor's Choice
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Responsive to Schumann's elaboration of the postlude as a means of commenting or emotional elucidation, Werner hitches an extinguishing coda to the last song that dovetails exquisitely into... —
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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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Saga
Songs by Schubert, Schumann, Loewe & Jensen
Konstantin Krimmel (baritone), Doriana Tchakarova (piano)
Conviction, insight and a rightness of presentation are the hallmarks of this collection by Krimmel and pianist Doriana Tchakarova. Beautifully annotated and recorded, the recording is a success... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Découverte
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year
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Women’s lives and loves
A Liederspiel devised by Graham Johnson
Felicity Lott (soprano), Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano) & Graham Johnson (piano)
Felicity Lott and Angelika Kirchschlager, their friendship forged after many shared productions of Der Rosenkavalier, have delighted audiences on both sides of the Atlantic with this Liederspiel.... —
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they're all tales and Finley is a fine tale-teller. In Loewe, he sounds as though he's singing just for you, the listener, so rapt and intense is his communication. Drake is a fine accomplice,... —
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The whimsical performance of Charles Ives’s ‘The Children’s Hour’ which opens the recital sets high standards of interpretation, John’s mellifluous singing offset by Vann’s tenderly undulating... —
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Decades: A Century of Song Vol. 3 1830 - 1840
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Alexey Gusev (bass-baritone), Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo), Soraya Mafi (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Kirchschlager, a singer incapable of being boring, has the lion’s share of the German Lieder here…With accompaniments that are often discreetly supportive, it’s too easy to take for granted... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018, Editor's Choice
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Loewe: Das Sühnopfer Des Neuen Bundes, Passionsoratorium
Monika Mauch (soprano), Ulrike Malotta (mezzo-soprano), Georg Poplutz (tenor), Andreas Burkhart (baritone), Arcis-Vocalisten Munich, L'Arpa Festante Baroque Orchestra, Thomas Gropper
While Bach’s example can be detected, so too can Handel’s influence be heard in the grander scenes; and, of course, one is constantly reminded of Mendelssohn’s soundworld. Thomas Gropper and... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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