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 ...
Graham Johnson's Schubert edition covers all of Schubert's secular vocal compositions with piano accompaniment. However, this volume of the Schubert edition slips in a little Schubert pseudo-sacred music: a hymn to the Almighty, a hymn to the Unending, a pagan lamentation, a pantheistic hymn to the evening and another pantheistic hymn to the stars ...
Springing from Greek Orthodox chant, east Asian dances, and late-Romantic orchestral textures, Ikon of Eros is a kind of reconciliation between the sacred and secular musical worlds, both of which have nurtured John Tavener's art. At the heart of this ambitious work is the ecstatic solo violin, which soars above the chorus and orchestra. ...
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 ...
A deluxe sampler covering the work of nearly 40 years, John Tavener: A Portrait has much to offer, including 19 musical tracks, a 46-minute interview with the composer, and a biographical essay detailing the key events and ideas in his life and work. Of primary interest is the premiere recording of Tavener's intense Prayer of the Heart, ...
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 ...
Since the composition of The Protecting Veil in 1987, the cello has played an important role in John Tavener's music. Even when he was writing for instruments during the 1989-1995 period when the music on Svyati originated, Tavener's works carried strong overtones of Russian Orthodox church services, and the cello here, as Tavener himself points ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is the first Schubertiad in Graham Johnson's Schubert edition, the first collection of songs grouped by a single year but sung by a group of singers. The year is 1815, Schubert's 18th, which means a lot of love songs and a lot of drinking songs, several romances, and -- given that 1815 was the last year of the Napoleonic Wars -- a couple of ...
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