Magik Johnson
You Are Sound [ Underwater Music / 2 CD - released 5/May/2008 ] This double album slides with ease from ambient bubblers to banging club tunes, making several diversions along the way and pulling in some of New Zealand's premier vocal talent (Boh Runga, Paul McLaney, James Dansey of The Sneaks) to help out. |
Syl Johnson
Complete Mythology [ Numero / 10 Multi-Format Box Set - released 25/Oct/2010 ] |
Wilko Johnson
Barbed Wire Blues [ Jungle / CD - released 29/Jan/2016 ] |
Wilko Johnson
The Best Of [ Cadiz / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2014 ] Collected together for the first time on CD, these two volumes present the finest recordings of one of the most idiosyncratic and iconic guitarists in Rock history, Wilko Johnson, who was a founding member of seminal UK Rock/R&B act Dr Feelgood and... |
Wilko Johnson
The Best Of - Volume 2 [ Cadiiz / CD - released 7/Jun/2010 ] |
Hobo Johnson
The Fall Of Hobo Johnson [ Reprise / Warner / CD - released 13/Sep/2019 ] Hailing from Sacramento, CA, artist Frank Lopes, who cultivated the moniker Hobo Johnson after being kicked out of his parents' house and left to live in his '94 Corolla, is propelling his way to the top. The half Azorean Portuguese, quarter Mexican... |
Josiah Johnson
Every Feeling On A Loop (LP) [ Anti- / 2 LP - released 18/Sep/2020 ] In the midst of writing acclaimed indie-folk band The Head and the Heart's third album, Signs of Light, Josiah Johnson checked into a rehab facility. When he checked out, though, his work hadn't properly been completed. He tried to get back into the... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Complete Songs Volume 12: The Young Schubert Adrian Thompson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Schubert Edition / CD ] The Young Schubert |
QUILTER / WARLOCK / GRAINGER / HOLST / GIBBS / etc
the Power of Love: An English Songbook Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] "From start to finish, the artistry of Alice Coote and Graham Johnson is of the highest order." (Gramophone) |
Alphonso Johnson
Moonshadows / Yesterday's Dreams / Spellbound [ Bgo / 2 CD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] |
QUILTER
Folk-Song Arrangements / Part-Songs for Women's Voices (Complete) Amanda Pitt (soprano) Joanne Thomas (mezzo-soprano) Philip Langridge (tenor) David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone) David Owen Norris (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 11 / CD - released 29/May/2005 ] "A worthy addition to British song history. Quilter enhances traditional tunes with understated, self effacing arrangements" (MusicWeb June 2005) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Complete Songs Volume 22: An 1815 Schubertiad (II) Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Patricia Rozario (soprano), Catherine Denley (alto), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Michael George (bass), Graham Johnson (pi [ Hyperion Complete Schubert Edition / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 1 (Incls 'Sieben Lieder, Op 48') Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Brahms Song Edition / CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] "All in all, this is another bag of riches from Johnson to look forward to, and a great start to Brahms." (AudAud.com) |
FREDERICK DELIUS
The Delius Collection [7 CDs] Anthony Rolf Johnson, Felicity Lott, Sarah Walker, Thomas Allen, Julian Lloyd Webber, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [ Heritage / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2012 ] "The present set, sumptuous in quantity and quality, is quite a coup for Heritage. The price is right and the content is classic...Classic Delius overwhelmingly in fruity early digital sound." (MusicWeb) |
J.S. BACH
St John Passion (Complete Oratorio) Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Marjana Lipovsek, Angela Maria Blasi / Concertus musicus Wien / Harnoncourt [ Teldec Das Alte Werk / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] The Austrian cellist, viol player, and conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt was born in Berlin, grew up in Graz (Austria) and studied the cello in Vienna, where from 1952 to 1969 he was a cellist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. |
BRITTEN
The Five Canticles / Purcell realizations Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Michael Chance, Alan Opie, Roger Vignoles, etc [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 15/Oct/2012 ] Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Roger Vignoles (piano), Michael Chance (countertenor), Alan Opie (baritone), Sioned Williams (harp) & Michael Thompson (horn) |
CAROLINE NORTON / MAUDE VALERIE WHITE / LIZA LEHMANN / and others
In praise of Woman (English women composers) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 13/Jul/2004 ] PICK OF THE YEAR, CD REVIEW GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs / On Wenlock Edge (Chamber version) / English Folksongs Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) / Graham Johnson (piano) / Simon Keenlyside (baritone) / Duke Quartet [ Naxos English Song Series / CD - released 16/Mar/2003 ] Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in the Gloucestershire village of Down Ampney in 1872, the son of a clergyman. His ancestry on both his father's and mother's side was of some intellectual distinction. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Symphonies complete (budget price) Arleen Auger, Catherine Robbin, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Gregory Reinhart / The Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood [ Decca Collectors Edition / 5 CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] "As befits Hogwood's performances, the L'Oiseau-Lyre recordings have a mingled size and clarity that tend to outshine not only Nimbus's obviously idiosyncratic sound but also the slightly grey sound of Norrington's EMI Seventh. Only time will tell... |