[ Hyperion Brahms Song Edition / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 30 August 2019
Volume 8 of Hyperion's complete Brahms songs proves the ideal platform for Harriet Burns in her debut album. As usual, Graham Johnson's scholarly booklet notes are an indispensable companion.
"Buoyed by Johnson's acutely judged accompaniments, the fresh-toned young soprano Harriet Burns, on her CD debut, spins a pure line and responds sensitively to the echt-Brahmsian moods of loneliness, regret and pathos…Yet while Burns's musing inwardness is often apt, I sometimes wanted stronger projection, including sharper German consonants." Gramophone