SACD, Challenge Classics (label)
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This is clearly a well-honed performance, strongest in delicate moments....This new release is a happy marriage of musicality and musicology. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Early Music
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Weinberg & Britten: Violin Concertos
Linus Roth (violin)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Mihkel Kütson
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Editor's Choice
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Wolf, H: Italienisches Liederbuch
Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Julia Kleiter (soprano) & Hilko Dumno (piano)
Both Prégardien and Kleiter (with their excellent pianist Hilko Dumno aiding and abetting) offer larger than life portrayals...Prégardien, with his baritonic tenor, finds the measure of each... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Vocal Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Prégardien brings ever new revelation to the songs, and though his pianist, Michael Gees, plays a modern piano, both vocal and keyboard parts are ornamented in the performing practice of Schubert's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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This is the voice of an older Pregardien: he has the grey hair for which Schubert's lonely wanderer longs. But the voice is in superb form, sensing out the underlying pulse and the minutest... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, Editor's Choice
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Prokofiev: Symphonies No. 2 & No. 4 (Second Version)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & James Gaffigan
James Gaffigan
Gaffigan is relatively brisk [in the Fourth], avoiding slackness, but at the expense of some nuance and opportunities for characterisation, notably in the third movement. —
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No one undertakes a recording of Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues lightly, and Dutch pianist Hannes Minnaar engages an authoritative objectivity in running the ever-surprising gamut of... —
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Aart Bergwerff opts for what is a typically Thuringian instrument of Bach’s time, and the Wiegleb organ of the Gumbertuskirche in Ansbach presents few ‘speech’ issues because although it was... —
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The two earliest surviving settings of the Requiem Mass receive beautiful realisations in superb sound: both performances and recording quality are of exemplary clarity. —
