More By Artist: Laurie,Johnson
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HUGO WOLF
Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch Felicity lott (soprano) Peter Schreier (tenor) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] BEST OF THE YEAR, BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE BBC CD REVIEW 'BUILDING A LIBRARY' FIRST CHOICE |
CHABRIER
Musique Adorable! (complete songs) Felicity Lott (soprano) William Burden (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 4/Jul/2002 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (October 2002)- "Unfailingly affectionate and stylish performances of the two colelctions and Chabrier's animal songs dominate the second disc of this real treasure of a treasury." (BBC Music Magazine) |
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Francois/Johnson Leroux
Saint-Saens:songs [ Hyperion / CD ] |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas BWV 106 "Actus tragicus", BWV 118, BWV 198 Nancy Argenta, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Stephen Varcoe / English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 10/Apr/2000 ] "Gardiner's feeling for style and sense of drive strike a responsive chord with many music lovers. His choice of soloists is unerring, and his musicianship of the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists always imposing" (Penguin Guide) |
George Masso Tentet, featuring Dick Johnson & Lou Colombo
At Long Last Love [ Arbors Records / CD - released 28/Jul/2009 ] "The musicians must have really enjoyed playing these brilliant charts and they stand as a shining lesson for anyone interested in the arranger«s craft." Steve Voce, Jazz broadcaster for the BBC |
HUGO WOLF
Goethe Lieder Geraldine McGreevy (soprano) Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2001 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (August 2001)- 'Hyperion's exemplary devotion to the art of the German Lied continues with this fine recording' (The Sunday Times) |
FRANCIS POULENC
The Complete Songs Graham Johnson (piano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Ailish Tynan (soprano), etc. [ Hyperion / CD Box Set - released 30/Sep/2013 ] Graham Johnson is simply the greatest living authority on French song; an artist whose innate feeling for the music is combined with prodigious scholarship. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: The Red Cockatoo and other songs Ian Bostridge (tenor) / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 16/May/2005 ] 'Bostridge is in the royal line of Britten's tenor interpreters ... heard here in a veritable cornucopia of, by and large, unfamiliar, and even unknown songs ... all performed with full understanding and innate beauty' - Gramophone |
PERCY GRAINGER
Jungle Book & other choral works John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) / Polyphony, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "Generous timing, discoveries, Delian gauzy harmonies, tangy instrumentation, sentimentality, aureate vocal light, succinct and touching settings." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Jan 2011) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: St. John Passion (complete oratorio recorded in 1986) Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Stephen Varcoe, Cornelius Hauptmann, Nancy Argenta / The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2000 ] "Gardiner conducts an exhilarating performance. Speeds are regularly on the fast side but, characteristically, he consistently keeps a spring in their rhythm. Chorales are treated in contrasted ways." Penguin Guide |
W.A. MOZART
Litanies / Vespers / Oratorios / Cantatas / Masonic Music SPECIAL PRICE Kiri Te Kanawa / Arleen Auger / Anthony Rolfe Johnson / Edith Mathis / Ilena Cotrubas / Fuchs / Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg / Staatskapelle Dresden [ Philips Complete Mozart Edition Box 11 / 13 CD - released 20/Nov/2005 ] The Philips Mozart Edition is now at budget price |
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Lott/Schreier/Johnson
Wolf:italian Songbook [ Hyperion / CD ] |
SCHUMANN
Kerner Lieder & Liederkreis Margaret Price (soprano) / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] 'An outstanding Helios CD … singing and playing of the highest order' (Gramophone) |
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Margaret Price/G Johnson
Schumann:liederkreis & Kern [ Helios / CD ] |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Songs (Incls 'Ruhe, meine Seele' & 'All mein Gedanken') Marie McLaughlin (soprano) / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 13/Apr/2005 ] "This is a thoroughly enjoyable recital, which has given me great pleasure. I hope others will enjoy it as much" (MusicWeb Aug 2005) |
JOHN IRELAND
The Songs of John Ireland Lisa Milne, John Mark Ainsley, Christopher Maltman / Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/May/2015 ] "Ireland was a songsmith to rival the finest this country has produced, and Hyperion's generous anthology will hopefully encourage others to explore this rewarding and rapt repertoire" (Hi-Fi News) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Israel in Egypt (complete oratorio) Nancy Argenta (soprano) / Emily Van Evera (soprano) / Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) David Thomas (bass) / Taverner Choir and Players / Andrew Parrott [ Erato / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 18/Mar/2003 ] 'If anyone needs to assure themselves as to whether the English choral tradition is alive and well, they need only buy this CD.' Gramophone |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Samson (complete) Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Roberta Alexander, Jochen Kowalski, Alastair Miles & Anton Scharinger / Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec Warner Classics Das Alte Werk / 2 CD - released 23/Feb/2009 ] "One of the most popular of his oratorios in his lifetime-Handel revived it in no fewer than nine seasons between its premiere in 1743 and his death in 1759-Samson has remained a firm favourite: it was the natural choice for Covent Garden to stage... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Richard Strauss: The Complete Songs 7 Ruby Hughes (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Günter Haumer (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Apr/2017 ] "Ruby Hughes's bright soprano is appealing" Gramophone Magazine, May 2015 |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 3 (Incls 'Serenade' Op 70 No 3) Simon Bode (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) [ Hyperion Brahms Song Edition / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "His tone is sweet and gently rounded, his diction crystal-clear, his phrasing always thoughtful. Spinning a rapt, sustained lined, he movingly catches the Brahmsian twilit melancholy of 'Abenddammerung'...'Wiegenlied', too, is as dulcet as you could |
