Julius Drake
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Special offer. Janáček: The Diary of One Who Disappeared
Recommended& other works
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Václava Housková (mezzo), VOICE, Victoria Samek (clarinet)
This excellently recorded performance is strikingly direct. The ebb and flow of the drama is brilliantly captured. Nicky Spence’s tenor is flexible across a huge range…Drake’s accompaniment... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2019
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Record Review, 6th July 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Special offer. Barber - Songs
RecommendedGerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano)
The Aronowitz Ensemble
As on his 2005 Ives collection, the Canadian baritone Gerald Finley is golden in tone, persuasive in phrasing, and unfailingly responsive to the sound and sense of the words. Julius Drake once... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge & other songs
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Timothy Ridout (viola)
Piatti Quartet
The famous cycle On Wenlock Edge (1909) has of ten been recorded, but this is a fine rendering with ‘Bredon Hill’ providing some particularly sublime moments. As always Julius Drake’s accompanying... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Song
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Special offer. Schubert: Schwanengesang & Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge
Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)
Finley is never an artist, one feels, to let himself be rushed…and his new recording of Schwanengesang is well worth the wait…The Vier ernste Lieder are possibly even better: noble, refined,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Special offer. Ives - Romanzo di Central Park
RecommendedGerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano), Magnus Johnston (violin)
…outstandingly well sung and played, equally well recorded, and highly recommendable to all lovers of fine songs and fine singing. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, Choral & Song Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 5 - Allan Clayton
RecommendedAllan Clayton (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)
The quieter moments of these songs show Allan Clayton’s voice at its best: smooth, tender and altogether alluring…By and large his diction is good…overall the performances are alive to the drama... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st December 2018
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Special offer. Britten: Songs & Proverbs of William Blake
Recommendedand other songs
Gerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano)
[Finley] just seems to be singing naturally, but at the same time he colors and inflects with astonishing specificity. He manages to vary the repeats in those folk-song settings where verses... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Played with such warmth and eloquence, the arrangements chosen here often feel as if they were tailor-made for the instrument, while the sensitive programming paints a loving portrait of the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2024, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 2 - Angelika Kirchschlager
RecommendedAngelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano) & Julius Drake (piano)
Kirchschlager's rich, resonant mezzo finds beauties everywhere on this disc, from heights of drama to imtimacies of reflection, and at every turn Drake is with her. I particularly like the way... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Vocal Award Winner
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Special offer. Schubert: Winterreise D911
RecommendedGerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano)
Perhaps more than any other recording the singer and the pianist are in equilibrium...if often sounds as if Julius Drake has just had an idea - and they are all good ones - and Gerald Finley... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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