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. —
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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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Aart Bergwerff opts for what is a typically Thuringian instrument of Bach’s time, and the Wiegleb organ of the Gumbertuskirche in Ansbach presents few ‘speech’ issues because although it was... —
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This is the voice of an older Pregardien: he has the grey hair for which Schubert's lonely wanderer longs. But the voice is in superb form, sensing out the underlying pulse and the minutest... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, 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... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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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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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... —
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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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MacMillan: St. Luke Passion
RecommendedPeter Dicke (organ)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Choir & National Youth Choir, Markus Stenz
The music is good at portraying the extremes of almighty power. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th April 2015
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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... —
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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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Like all cycles, it has had ups and downs, but overall it has been as fine as anyone conducting Bruckner at present would be. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Thomas Sanderling, Linus Roth, London Symphony Orchestra
Roth is stark and uncompromising throughout, drawing you into its claustrophobic world, especially in the central Adagio. Thomas Sanderling and the London Symphony Orchestra provide sturdy support... —
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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