Julian Prégardien, Kristian Bezuidenhout - Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (2024)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 245 Mb | Total time: 61:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pentatone | # HMM 902739 | Recorded: 2023
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 245 Mb | Total time: 61:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pentatone | # HMM 902739 | Recorded: 2023
Tenor Julian Prégardien certainly has plenty of competition with this recording of Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795. However, his entry into the field is distinctive in several ways and can stand with any of the other recent ones. Lieder buffs will remember that the singer's father, Christoph Prégardien, not only recorded this cycle but did so with a historically oriented pianist, Andreas Staier, at a time (1992) when historical performances of Schubert were not so common. Julian's second-generation recording certainly has a "family resemblance," but it is no knockoff, and it has several key attractions.