SACD, Challenge Classics (label)
-
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... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2009, Editor's Choice
-
Building A Library, February 2019, Also Recommended
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
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…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
-
Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Folk Stories
Songs by Beethoven, Britten & Mahler
Cora Burggraaf (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lepper (piano), Liza Ferschtman (violin) & Floris Mijnders (cello)
The essence of folk song is outward simplicity: this disc is a wide-ranging selection of arrangements and originals, performed with artful directness. — More…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
The three concertos featured here and written between 1778 and 1779 exhibit a great deal of melodic charm, character and good humour, if not perhaps the greatest originality...Krigovský dazzles... — More…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
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…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Mozart: La Betulia liberata, K118
Christian Zenker (Ozia), Margot Oitzinger (Giuditta), Marelize Gerber (Amital), Markus Volpert (Achior), Elisabeth Breuer (Cabri & Carmi)
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg
L'Orfeo Barockorchester play with an attractive thrust and graininess, with solos well taken and horns ringing out gloriously...a vivid and dramatic snapshot of this stage in the wunderkind's... — More…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Schubert: The Complete Symphonies Vol. 3
Symphony No. 9
Residentie Orkest the Hague & Jan Willem de Vriend
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1, 3 & 8 'Unfinished'
Complete Symphonies Vol. 2
Residentie Orkest The Hague & Jan Willem de Vriend
The string playing is so crisp and clear, even at faster than-average tempos, that, at least in the two early symphonies, the section sounds smaller than it actually is. Here, he does what Harnoncourt... — More…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?