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. — More…
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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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Not surprisingly, [the performances] are much in the same vein as in Vol. 1, which is to say bright and buoyant, with no tricks or surprises but plenty of energy and brilliance. Bonizzoni’s... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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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... — More…
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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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The enchanting opening theme of Symphony No. 5 sets what will be the preponderant tone, vigorous and elegant, and that agreeably bracing idiom is maintained throughout both symphonies. — More…
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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... — More…
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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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José De Nebra: Esta Dulzura Amable
Sacred Cantatas
María Espada (soprano), Farran James (violin), Pedro Luis Arteche de la Fuente (viola), James Bush (cello), Francisco Aguiló Matas (double bass), Juan Carlos de Mulder (theorbo) & Eduardo López Banzo (conductor & harpsichord)
Al Ayre Español
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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... — More…
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The Sonata is finely played, its unusual structure (closer to that of Prokofiev’s Fourth Concerto than any 19th-century exemplar) used to good advantage in a nicely paced performance. The Ballades... — More…
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Period-instrument ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria takes the contrapuntal dexterity by the scruff of the neck and the musicians revel in readings that ooze brio and boisterous élan. Just occasionally... — More…
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