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Schubert: Schwanengesang & Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge
Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)
Finley is never an artist, one feels, to let himself be rushed…and his new recording of Schwanengesang is well worth the wait…The Vier ernste Lieder are possibly even better: noble, refined,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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This musical partnership is companionable, even exciting, because Vogt does not ‘accompany’ slavishly, but retains his own character, spreading, anticipating or delaying harmonies to tell an... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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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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What empathy this is from these two young artists! —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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A souvenir-document that all Schubert and Goerne/Brendel fanciers will itch to acquire. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Finalist - Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 1990, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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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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Schubert - Schwanengesang & Songs After Seidl
RecommendedChristoph Prégardien (tenor) & Andreas Staier (fortepiano)
…an outstanding performance. …deeply engaged robustly expressive singing whose rhythmic rigour and details of phrasing and articulation reveal an exciting commitment to this great cycle. …with... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, February 2019, Also Recommended
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Schubert: Schwanengesang
RecommendedMark Padmore (tenor) & Paul Lewis (piano), with Richard Watkins (horn)
This is a wonderful recording, two supreme Schubertians working in perfect harmony. Odd as it might sound, I think that this disc is valuable above all for Paul Lewis's stupendous playing. Not... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th September 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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Boesch is a wonderful Schubert singer...the range of his full, rounded bass-baritone voice, always in tune, is remarkable. —
