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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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There’s certainly no shortage of outstanding recordings of this cycle but this new one – considered, refined and beautifully sung, played and recorded – is among the most satisfying and quietly... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Male Singer of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Winners, Song
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This is easily the most searching and comprehensive account of Schubert's first great song-cycle that I have heard...Kaufmann commands a hypnotic tone which leaves one, as the long last song... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, Choral & Song Choice
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Lied
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (reader)
Bostridge’s peculiarly beseeching voice enshrines the vulnerability, tender feeling and obsessive love of the youthful miller … a soulsearching interpretation —
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Solo vocal
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This is a most distinguished account. Gerhaher’s voice, a fairly light baritone, retains its youthful sound and his articulation is superb – this is someone living the words, not reporting on... —
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Lied
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Spence ranges with great nuance through romance, awkwardness, brashness, selfdoubt, the madness and loneliness of unrequited love, the vulnerability, all done with that little bit of theatricality... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin
Recommendedand other lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Die schöne Müllerin / Schwanengesang / Winterreise
Michael Gees, Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Andreas Staier (early keyboard instruments)
My desert-island choice for a highly cultivated yet quite personal tenor-voice foray into Schubert’s world. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Even the first song seems tinged with a premonition of the painful trajectory that will lead to the watery embrace of the brook...What follows isn’t so much an initially wide-eyed voyage of... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2020
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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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