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Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917267020 |
Catalogue number CC 72670 |
Release date 17 November 2015 |
"Winner of the Jahrespreis of Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2016 for the album 'Poetisches Tagebuch'! This yearly prize is the most prestigious critic prize for all music genres in Germany!"
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2016, 30-11-2016Christoph Prégardien tenor
”His lyric tenor voice had a youthful glow, yet he sang with plaintive beauty and piercing insight.” The New York Times
Precise vocal control, clear diction, intelligent musicality and an ability to get to the heart of everything he sings insures Christoph Prégardien’s place among the world’s foremost lyric tenors. Especially revered as a Lieder singer, he can be heard this season at Wigmore Hall London, Berlin Philharmonie, Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg, Opéra Bastille Paris, Cité de la Musique Paris as well as Toppan and Kioi Hall Tokyo. As regular guest he will return to festivals such as Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Schwetzingen SWR Festival, Oxford Piano and Lieder Festivals and Aldeburgh Festival. Following the success of his conducting debut with J. S. Bach’s St. John’s Passion on a European tour with the ensemble Le Concert Lorrain and the Nederlands Kamerkoor in 2012 and 2013, Christoph Prégardien is already preparing to conduct St. Matthew’s Passion in 2015.
Christoph Prégardien appears regularly with renowned orchestras the world over, including the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, Bavarian Radio Symphony, Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, National Orchestra of Spain, London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, the Philharmonie de Radio France, as well as the Boston, St. Louis, Montreal and San Francisco Symphonys. His wide orchestral repertoire includes the great baroque, classical and romantic oratorios and passions, as well as works from the 17th (Monteverdi, Purcell, Schütz) and 20th centuries (Britten, Killmayer, Rihm, Strawinsky). He has collaborated with conductors such as Barenboim, Chailly, Gardiner, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe, Luisi, Metzmacher, Nagano, Sawallisch and Thielemann. In opera, his roles have included Tamino (Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte), Almaviva (Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Fenton (Verdi’s Falstaff), Don Ottavio (Mozart’s Don Giovanni) and the title roles in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito and Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria.
Much of Mr. Prégardien’s repertoire has been recorded on the BMG, EMI, DG, Philips, Sony, Erato and Teldec labels. His discography numbers over 130 titles, many of which have been awarded international prizes and his celebrated recordings of German romantic song have won the Orphée d’Or of the Académie du Disque Lyrique, as well as the Prix Georg Solti, German Record Critics’ Prize, Edison Award, Cannes Classical Award and the Diapason d’Or, to name but a few.
Christoph Prégardien recently forged a long-term collaboration with the Dutch label Challenge Classics; their first recordings of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin (accompanied by Michael Gees) and Schubert’s Schwanengesang (accompanied by Andreas Staier) were released in 2008. Müllerin was highly praised as “Best of the Year” in Gramophone and was honoured at MIDEM 2009 as both Record and Vocal Recital of the Year. Subsequently the label issued recordings of songs by Schubert, Mahler, Wolf, Loewe, and others entitled Between Life and Death (again with M. Gees), of Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch (Julia Kleiter, Hilko Dumno) and the album Wanderer presenting chamber ensemble versions of song cycles by Schumann, Killmayer and Mahler (Ensemble Kontraste). In 2013, a new album presenting Schubert’s Winterreise including a documentary was released on CD and DVD together with Michael Gees.
Teaching remains a very important part of Christoph Prégardien’s musical life. From 2000 to 2004 he taught at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Zurich. Since 2004, he has been a professor at the Academy of Music in Cologne. As part of Schott’s “Master Class” series, he published an innovative multi-media DVD/book addressing vocal technique and musical interpretation.
Winner of the Jahrespreis of Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2016 for the album 'Poetisches Tagebuch'! This yearly prize is the most prestigious critic prize for all music genres in Germany!
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2016 , 30-11-2016
The SACD sound is realistic, doing full justice to the piano as well as the voice, and the texts and translations are very clearly laid out.
Musicweb, 22-8-2016
"To make every word clearly understandable is still a matter of course for this singer. The very well balanced proportion between grand piano and voice also contributes to this on this record. Not a millisecond of reverb too much spoils the concentration of the listener."
Stereo, 01-4-2016
"To make every word clearly understandable is still a matter of course for this singer. The very well balanced proportion between grand piano and voice also contributes to this on this record. Not a millisecond of reverb too much spoils the concentration of the listener."
Fono Forum, 01-3-2016
"Despite the sometimes audible age differences cross Prégardien as songs singer still high above quite a few younger colleagues and is his collaboration with Drake is always exceptional."
Luister Magazine, 01-3-2016
"In a true partnership give tenor and pianist piercing, emotionally direct and utterly natural performances, alternately profound lyrical playful and boisterous."
Klassieke Zaken, 01-2-2016
"Even if Prégardiens voice sounds a little autumnal by now and some tone comes out quite brittle, his interpretative skills remain impressive. Like only few other Lied singers he grasps the music as a medium for the words."
Opernwelt, 01-2-2016
["].. As a representation of the ultimate Schubertian theme leads the moon 's visit to reminisce about the past, about what is not there! The song gives a sense of satisfaction in sadness. Prégardien convinces us with its quiet spell that he played this song. "
Klassiek Centraal, 19-1-2016
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Fono Forum, 17-1-2016
["]..The effortless might be off by Prégardien, there was lived- in return."
De Volkskrant, 01-12-2015
"The tenor is a storyteller who avoids mannerisms: no reverb, little vibrato, no preoccupation with nice sound. However, he is constantly audible, and he does not avoid the risk. In the highest registers he also has an astonishing resilience, as demonstrated in almost hummed encore Mondnacht. British accompanist Julius Drake showed a sensitive ear for detail. In the perlentränentröpfchen, the death coffin is nailed: they were all audible in the Steinway."
De Volkskrant, 20-11-2015