The two volumes that the Brilliant label has devoted to Haydn's arrangements of Scottish folk songs make a mismatched pair: Vol. 1 contains but a single disc, while Vol. 2 has four. The pairing is useful in a way; those who want a sampler of the music can stick with the first volume, while libraries and others interested in a nearly complete ...
Another volume of Graham Johnson's Schubert edition, another Schubertiad. And that is a good thing: the opportunity to hear a disc of Schubert songs grouped with intelligence and taste and featuring different singers in the songs most appropriate to them is a wonderful thing. This diversity-in-unity approach works especially well in Schubert songs ...
This performance of Dido and Aeneas, taken from a 1995 television production directed by Peter Maniura, and conducted by Richard Hickox, is a gorgeous realization of Purcell's masterpiece. Some performances of the opera run the risk of being primarily quaint and charming, but the gritty, unflinching naturalism of this production gives it an ...
One would have thought that at some point Graham Johnson would simply have run out of great Schubert songs in compiling his Schubert edition. And one would have been wrong: even here at volume 35 in a program with the unwieldy title of Schubert, 1822 -- 1825, Johnson has seemingly saved some of the best for nearly the end. But what else could a ...
It's a man's, man's, man's, man's volume of Graham Johnson's Schubert edition: songs for tenors, baritones, male chorus, and songs for men, about men, and to men. It's a great, great, great, great volume. John Mark Ainsley is one of the best tenors in England and is suave, strong, and sensitive with a tiny little catch in his voice. His Willkommen ...
This three-CD box set from Brilliant Classics contains the first 100 folk song arrangements Franz Joseph Haydn made for London-based Scottish publisher William Napier between 1792 and 1795. The first of the three volumes of 50 settings each for Napier was partly motivated by charity on Haydn's part, as in 1791, Napier was forced into bankruptcy ...
Any volume of Graham Johnson's Schubert edition that has one of the numerous settings of Matthisson's Der Geistertanz is a good volume. And that this volume starts with the men of the London Schubert Chorale belting out the slightly inebriated 1816 setting from the D. 494 is a great start to what proves to be a great volume in the series. How ...
The indefatigable folks at Holland's Brilliant label have turned their budget-minded efforts to Haydn, with the usual mixed results. On the positive side of the ledger are some competent recordings of Haydn's settings of Scottish songs, which are not otherwise abundant. The complete run-through by the Haydn Trio Eisenstadt has several advantages, ...
The Brilliant label, from the Netherlands, applies its budget-box-set modus operandi usefully to Haydn's Scottish songs, which do not have an abundance of competent recordings. They've issued them all in six volumes, of which this is the last even though the songs included here (and in the fifth volume) represent Haydn's first encounter with the ...
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