Benjamin Appl
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Hans Sommer: Orchestral Songs
RecommendedMojca Erdmann, Anke Vondung, Mauro Peter, Benjamin Appl, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Guillermo García Calvo
The RundfunkSinfonieorchester Berlin sounds rich and glossy, with four strong soloists. Yet I was repeatedly left with the sensation of a composer trying too hard. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Premiere Recordings
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The baritone’s voice, not a large, juicy or powerful instrument, is helped by the engineers (in performance, balance can be a major issue with these arrangements), allowing us to hear plenty... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Solo Vocal Recording of the Year
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Forbidden, yet seldom forbidding, Appl’s exquisitely cultivated fruits are ripe for plucking, and deserve to be consumed with unalloyed relish! — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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The Secret Fauré 3: Sacred Vocal Works
Benjamin Appl (baritone), Katja Stuber (soprano)
Sinfonieorchester Basel, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Ivor Bolton
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Appl offers a fine baritone with a good range and an ability to characterise skilfully – each of the Three Kings in turn in ‘Epiphanias’, for instance; throughout he is acutely observant of... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2022
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Cantatas of the Bach Family
Benjamin Appl (baritone), Christoph Hartmann (oboe)
Berlin Barock Solisten, Reinhard Goebel
Appl, warm, intimate, colouring his voice just so, is at his superbly expressive best in the quasi-operatic drama of Pygmalion, with its wide emotional range, or the thrust of Carl Philipp Emanuel’s... — More…
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Luciano Berio - Transformation
Sinfonieorchester Basel, Daniel Ottensamer (clarinet), Sophia Burgos (soprano)
Ivor Bolton
It’s a heterogeneous selection, ranging from a relatively straight realisation of the final, unfinished Contrapunctus from Bach’s Art of Fugue, to baroque treatments of four Beatles numbers...It... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Insight for insight Appl is more than matched by his pianist James Baillieu, a storyteller to his staccato-cherishing fingertips…In their mutually enriching symbiosis Schubert’s journey emerges... — More…
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Sibelius: Kullervo
Benjamin Appl (baritone), Helena Juntunen (soprano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Lund Male Chorus, Thomas Dausgaard
Every unorthodox texture, ostinato and accompaniment makes its mark…It’s good to have a focused, youthful chorus, in the shape of men from Sweden’s Lund University, rather than the usual wall... — More…
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Appl has a baritone voice with its own character and a natural appreciation of the essentials of singing Lieder…he floats through Mendelssohn’s beautifully rippling ‘Schwanenlied’ with mellow... — More…
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