Complete Brahms Songs
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 1 (Angelika Kirchschlager)
Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano) & Graham Johnson (piano)
Graham Johnson, once again, is both mastermind and pianist, and, as ever, his accompanying notes and essays are as witty and richly allusive as his playing...This recital is beautifully shaped. — More…
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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... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Bode sings [Sehnsucht and the Wiegenlied] with a fine sense of artistry and wonderment. Johnson takes care over his placing of Brahms's many folksong settings within this series, inserting a... — More…
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 7 (Benjamin Appl)
Benjamin Appl (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
Johnson is alive to every juicy nuance of the richly detailed accompaniments. And although I was occasionally distracted by Appl’s closed vowels, which sometimes robbed the poetry of its immediacy,... — More…
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 4 (Robert Holl)
Robert Holl (bass-baritone) & Graham Johnson (piano)
Holl's true bass register resonates eloquently with this programme of very serious songs...Holl has the ability to draw the listener in...For the Four Serious Songs themselves, Holl brings a... — More…
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 5 (Christopher Maltman)
Christopher Maltman (baritone) & Graham Johnson (piano)
Maltman and the ever-sensitive Johnson...make a compelling, illuminating partnership. Maltman's mellow baritone,with its distinctively plangent, tenorish upper register, is always easy on the... — More…
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 2 (Christine Schäfer)
Christine Schäfer (soprano) & Graham Johnson (piano)
[in the Ophelia songs] Schäfer is ideally cast: she sings them very much as a singing actress would, artful in her apparent artlessness, and meticulous of diction...[the Madchenlieder's] pungent... — More…
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Buoyed by Johnson’s acutely judged accompaniments, the fresh-toned young soprano Harriet Burns, on her CD debut, spins a pure line and responds sensitively to the echt-Brahmsian moods of loneliness,... — More…
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