Graham Johnson
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The beauty of Alice Coote’s mezzo-soprano glows with radiance. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 6 (Ian Bostridge)
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
On the plus side, there's [Bostridge's] customary detailed attention to text; he uses some idiosyncratic tonal colouring to paint in its meanings, but the approach is always intelligent. He... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Saint-Saëns: Songs
RecommendedFrançois Le Roux (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano), Krysia Osostowicz (violin), Philippa Davies (flute)
This is the most resounding blow yet to be struck for the mélodies of Saint-Saëns. François Le Roux, with his incisive diction and ability to characterise each song, is a real champion for the... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Bostridge is in the royal line of Britten's tenor interpreters. Indeed his imaginative response to words and music may come closer than any to Pears himself. He's heard here in a veritable cornucopia... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (reader)
Bostridge’s peculiarly beseeching voice enshrines the vulnerability, tender feeling and obsessive love of the youthful miller … a soulsearching interpretation —
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Solo vocal
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Brahms: The Complete Songs, Vol. 9 - Robin Tritschler
Robin Tritschler (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano), Harriet Burns (soprano)
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Musique Adorable
Felicity Lott (soprano) William Burden (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Graham Johnson(piano)
Adorable indeed … these songs steal into the heart. This is a set made for a lifetime's listening and enjoyment —
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Poulenc: The Complete Songs
Graham Johnson (piano), Ailish Tynan (soprano), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Pierre Bernac (narrator), Ben Johnson (tenor), Sarah Fox (soprano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Ivan Ludlow (baritone), Brandon Velarde (baritone), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Robin Tritschler...
The greatest hero of the set remains Graham Johnson himself. As well as writing the booklet notes and organising the whole adventure, Johnson proves himself to be the most sensitive and accomplished... —
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The Songs of Robert Schumann - Volume 8
RecommendedMark Padmore (tenor), Jonathan Lemalu (baritone), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Building a Library, May 2006, Highly Recommended
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Building a Library, April 2017, Also Recommended
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Fauré - The Complete Songs - 4
Dans un parfum de roses
Jennifer Smith, Felicity Lott, Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
…the final volume and jewel in the crown of Hyperion's completely Fauré songs. …all the singers involved in this glorious project, while not always in their first radiance and purity of voice,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice
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