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My desert-island choice for a highly cultivated yet quite personal tenor-voice foray into Schubert’s world. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2021 More…

Mühlbacher sings these laments expressively, with smooth tone and accurate semiquaver runs. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2024 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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 inflections... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Larsson's characterisations of these early-period works have a more fragile humanity, with pockets of psychological detail missed by others, often conveyed with a confiding intimacy that might... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014 More…

Forget the less than perfect presentation and enjoy the top-drawer singing. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2021 More…

Mozart’s ‘Abendempfindung an Laura’ ( K523) looks simple on the surface but is artfully through composed, and Richter leads each phrase into the next with subtle vocal shading and seamless breath... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The essence of folk song is outward simplicity: this disc is a wide-ranging selection of arrangements and originals, performed with artful directness. — Sunday Times, 3rd February 2013 More…

Prégardien can always be relied upon to approach art song thoughtfully and adventurously… [He] sounds like he’s in his element, striding assuredly through this hit parade and savouring each word.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Sound) More…