Mahler - Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
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…outstandingly imaginative piano playing of Gerold Huber. He counterpoints voice and piano with the subtext within the settings, often with revelatory results. Both Gerhaher and Huber pace... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Building a Library, May 2023, Recommended Recording
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Requiem – The Pity of War
RecommendedMahler – Stephan – Butterworth – Weill
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Sir Antonio Pappano (piano)
Bostridge and Antonio Pappano are on superb form here, carefully responsive to style and mood, yet striving throughout for unsparing immediacy of expression…Stephan’s taxing vocal lines push... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
RecommendedAnne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Quasthoff (baritone)
Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, June 2011, First Choice
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Grammy Awards, 42nd Awards (1999), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn & Symphony No. 10 (Adagio)
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano) & Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
The musical future is thrillingly present in this searing live performance...Gerhaher and Boulez together explore and recreate that fragile warmth of nostalgia. The lithe, toned muscle of both... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Disc of the month
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Mahler: Songs with Orchestra
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano) & Thomas Hampson (baritone), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
'Um mitternacht' works best, with gleaming voice complemented by superb San Francisco clarinets and trumpets - glorious recorded perspectives, too, as ever from this source. — More…
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Schwanewilms's interpretations are regularly imaginative, her singing musicianly, though not all of her vocalism matches her good intentions. There's sometimes...an edge to her tone that combines... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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It is good to hear a male singer perform Brahm’s Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein and Mendelssohn’s Hexenlied, and Huang’s fleet fingers make light of some fearsomely virtuosic accompaniments.... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Ruby Hughes's singing is exceptional - light and delicate yet true. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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Wagner: Die Walküre: excerpts, etc.
RecommendedChrista Ludwig (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
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Building a Library, September 2017, Also Recommended
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Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1901 version)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell
EMI's classic recording made in 1968 more or less puts all rivals out of court.
Even those who find Schwarzkopf's singing mannered will be hard pressed to find more persuasive versions of the... — More…Downloads
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