This two-disc set entitled An Anthology of English Song is just what it says it is: a very generous collection of 53 selections drawn from 13 separate discs of songs by English composers from Stanford to Britten. Some were first issued in the '90s on the late Collins label. Some were first issued in the 2000s on the vibrant Naxos label. But all ...
The first volume of Hyperion's complete Fauré songs is called "Au bord de l'eau" (by the water's edge) -- a reference to the French master's fondness for aquatic, nautical, and natural subjects in poetry, as well as to the title of one of his most famous songs. Having decided against a purely chronological survey of Fauré's songs, an approach that ...
With this disc, which contains every song Schubert composed in his final year, Hyperion's Schubert Edition comes to an end. Not only are the Schwanengesang songs of Heine, Rellstab, and Seidl here, but so are the other three Rellstab settings, the other two Seidl settings, and the trio setting of Küffner's adaptation of Paul's Second Letter to the ...
What subject is more conducive to romantic reverie than the night? And, great as Chopin's Nocturnes and Act II of Tristan are, few composers wrote better music of the night than Schubert. Thus it is wholly appropriate that Graham Johnson has recognized Schubert's predilection for night music in this the first of three volumes in his Schubert ...
Graham Johnson dubbed Vol. 18 of his Schubert edition "Schubert and the Strophic Song," and while that is certainly true (nearly all the songs on this disc are strophic settings), it is not the reason to hear the disc. And although Johnson engaged the wonderfully expressive tenor Peter Schreier as the vocalist on the disc, and although Johnson's ...
One of the burdens Graham Johnson agreed to shoulder when he took up the challenge to record all of Schubert's songs was that of Schubert's interminable ballades. Although Schubert used up more pages of manuscript writing ballades than any other type of song in his youth, his efforts were often in vain as most of his ballades are dreary melodramas ...
First the good news: the music is by Schubert, the lyrics are by Schiller, the singing is by Thomas Allan, and the accompaniment is by Graham Johnson. Now the bad news: there are not one but two interminable and almost unlistenable ballades included in this program of otherwise wonderful songs. So while most of the songs in this volume of Johnson ...
There are many supremely beautiful volumes in Graham Johnson's Schubert edition -- Fassbaender's, Popp's, Ameling's, Hampson's, Bostridge's -- but this Goethe Schubertiad is as supremely beautiful as the best of them. Of course, Goethe always brought out the best in the passionate young composer and his Goethe songs are among the greatest of ...
One might have thought that by the third volume of night music, Graham Johnson would have scraped the bottom of the Schubertian barrel. But one would have underestimated both Johnson and Schubert because nearly every song on this disc is a masterpiece of night music, every song wonderfully lyrical, deeply moving, and among the great treasures of ...
Okay, so, no, the Hyperion French Song edition's four-volume survey of the complete songs of Fauré won't replace EMI's complete edition. But then, how could it? Featuring the ethereal Elly Ameling and the heroic Gérard Souzay along with stalwart accompanist Dalton Baldwin, the set was in its time and remains for all time the gold standard of ...
As great as some of the earlier volumes in Graham Johnson's Schubert edition had been, none of them match singer with repertoire so successfully as this volume. But when it came time to do a set of Schubert songs on death, who else could Johnson have chosen as the singer except mezzo soprano Brigitte Fassbaender? What other singer is so expressive ...
Graham Johnson's idea of dedicating Vol. 2 of his Schubert edition to songs about water was, as they say, a natural. In all of Schubert's songs, water ranks below only flowers as a source of inspiration and he wrote some of the most delightful, the most awe-inspiring, the most suicidal songs as water songs. And although the volume of course does ...
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