This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players. ----- A superb, satisfying Schwanengesang that’s up there with...

This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.

-----



A superb, satisfying Schwanengesang that’s up there with the greatest

There are singers who seek to imbue Schubert Lieder with more gravitas, often accompanied by a sense of the world about to end. Christoph Prégardien is not of that ilk. For him, it seems, Schubert was a life-affirming optimist. In this world you can endure the slings and arrows and still be certain that the future will be better. So this marvellous Schwanengesang is essentially a honey-toned, sunny experience.

-- Gramophone [4/2009]