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Antonio Vivaldi
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Reviews (11)
Klassik.com
d. 22. July 2020
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Benjamin Künzel
d. 22. July 2020
"Pavol Breslik gelingt mit Janáceks 'Tagebuch eines Verschollenen' ein rundum authentisches und eigenwilliges Album ... Begleitet wird Breslik von Robert Pechanec. Den rhythmisch komplexen und technisch anspruchsvollen Klavierpart beherrscht der Pianist mit Verve und Souveränität ... Auf das 'Tagebuch eines Verschollenen' folgen auf diesem Album zwei weitere Liedsammlungen ... Ein wunderbar unverstellter Abschluss".
Presto classical
d. 1. July 2019
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Katherine Cooper
d. 1. July 2019
"Editor's choices - June 2019: He may spend the first eight songs lusting from afar like Schubert's journeyman, but there the similarity ends: the protagonist of Janáček's 1921 song-cycle actually gets the girl midway through the sequence, with Julius Drake's uninhibited account of the Intermezzo Erotico leaving us in no doubt of what that entails. Spence is in absolutely glorious voice, cresting the top Cs with ease - and unlike most of his predecessors on disc genuinely sounds like he could plough a field and marshal a team of oxen".
MusicWeb international
2020 April
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Roy Westbrook
2020 April
"Breslik has fine credentials for the piece, not least his - to my monoglot judgement - convincing Czech (in fact he is a Slovak). Then of course there is his attractive basic timbre, a fresh-sounding tenor which easily conveys a sense of youth. Most important is his musicianship and commitment, so that he seems always engaged with the cycle's drama, and with the role, since that is what we have here - a psycho-drama rather like a Winterreise with a quite different scenario and outcome ... I have not heard many other recordings of The Diary of One Who Disappeared, but for me the outstanding version from Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès (EMI, 2001) is generally still to be preferred, even to this fine newcomer".
Politiken
d. 31. Mar. 2002
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d. 31. Mar. 2002
Jyllands-posten
d. 20. Mar. 2002
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BBC music magazine
2019 September
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Jan Smaczny
2019 September
"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 ... Václava Housková's gypsy may not be the last word in sensuality, but she communicates her bewitching charms utterly convincingly. Julius Drake's accompaniment is always alive to the operatic nuance of the work ... This is a magnificent realisation of a viscerally rewarding work ... This winning collection concludes with charmingly performed Moravian folksong arrangements from the 1890s".
Diapason
2019 septembre
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Nicolas Derny
2019 septembre
Fono Forum
2020 Juli
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Johannes Schmitz
2020 Juli
"Pavol Breslik ist einer der grossen tenorstars unserer Zeit, eine erstklassige Besetzung im italienischen und deutschen lyrischen Fach. Mühelos fliesst seine wunderbar viril timbrierte Stimme, und überzeugten sind seine durchdachten Gestaltungen ... Mit Leos Janáčeks Liederzyklus "Tagesbuch eines Verschollenen" ist ihm nun eine Referenzsufnahme gelungen ... Wesentlich zur Qualität dieses "Tagebuchs" trägt auch der Pianist Robert Pechanec bei ... Breslik und Pechanec verleihen ihnen den angemessen musikantischen Duktus, ohne in den lyrischen Passagen die Tiefsinnigkeit vermissen zu lassen".
Berlingske tidende
d. 9. Jan. 2002
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The gramophone
2019 August
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Hugo Shirley
2019 August
"Recording of the month - Editor's choice: Not only does Spence's voice offer a rare mix of steely strength and velvety tenderness but his bright, vibrant timbre communicates a touching, wide-eyed sense of ardent longing, tinged with melancholy ... [He] is brilliantly supported throughout by Julius Drake, who ... conjures up the cycle's sound world superbly from the start ... As persuasive an introduction to Janáček's songs as you'll find. Excellent engineering and presentation ... crown an outstanding release - highly recommended".
The gramophone
2020 May
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Hugo Shirley
2020 May
"An established Tamino, Breslik has a soft-grained, lyric voice ... He's unfazed by the cycle's extremes and charts a sensible interpretative course with his fine pianist, Robert Pechanec. There's plenty of urgency early on, a touching hint of romantic desperation as well as an expected ease with the language ... Similarly, Ester pavlu is a fine mezzo soloist ... Pechanec's playing is alive and suitably angular ... An enjoyable account of this great work, then".