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The baritone’s voice, not a large, juicy or powerful instrument, is helped by the engineers (in performance, balance can be a major issue with these arrangements), allowing us to hear plenty... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Vocal Recording of the Year
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The voice – a distinctive instrument offering a hint of Christian Gerhaher’s refined artlessness and some of the pleasingly acidic tang of Wolfgang Holzmair – changes according to the accompaniment:... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Schubert: Nacht & Träume
RecommendedLieder with orchestra
Wiebke Lehmkuhl (contralto), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor)
Insula orchestra & accentus, Laurence Equilbey
A surprisingly coherent musical experience. The revelation is the French composer Franck Krawczyk (b.1969) whose bubbling arrangement of An Sylvia had me smiling for days…Wiebke Lehmkuhl and... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th December 2017
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In these song recitals she is undoubtedly musical and accomplished, but the balance leans more toward beautiful vocalizing than interpretation. In the Schubert group there is a perfectly sustained... — More…
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Ludwig presents them with disarming dedication and to hear the hackneyed Ave Maria sung like this is to realise afresh the beauty which all too often is jellied over with sentiment. Gervase... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Riches has the versatility to sound at home in any language or musical idiom. He possesses a natural authority that never has to strive for effect, and his warm, supple bass-baritone is eminently... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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With Gerald Moore (who returned to the studio out of retirement especially for the occasion) still at this finest, this is a hugely satisfying collection...There are no texts, but this remains... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Schubert: 24 Lieder
RecommendedElisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Edwin Fischer, Gerald Moore, Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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[James Rutherford] has at his disposal a wonderfully healthy and rounded bass-baritone voice…and his German is impeccable…the cycle has a slow-burn cumulative power, and if Rutherford’s tone... — More…
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The result is studded with performances heroic and tender. Kaufmann shows his outstanding dynamic and expressive range, from a close-miked, intimate whisper to gloriously powerful, full-throttle... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th September 2020
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