Jennifer Johnston
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There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Ned Rorem - On an echoing road
Duets, Trios and Quartets from Evidence of things not seen interspersed with songs
Anna Leese (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), Andrew Staples (tenor), Jacques Imbrailo (baritone), Tim Mead (countertenor) & Alisdair Hogarth (piano / director)
Prince Consort
All five singers have clearly grasped the importance of Rorem's text-based conception of song, 'poetry as expressed through the voice' and they sing - albeit in resolutely English English which... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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You promised me everything
Vocal & choral works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo soprano), Joseph Middleton, Alisdair Hogarth (piano)
Someone should commission a music theatre piece from Cheryl Frances Hoad: this disc reveals a dramatic instinct straining at the leash....Jennifer Johnston is a superb advocate, the glossy depth... — More…
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The result is musically satisfying and rather touching, and Johnston lends her warm, communicative mezzo to a range of idioms…The most intriguing parts of the disc are the new works; no fewer... — More…
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Britten: Complete Songs Volume 2
Malcolm Martineau (piano), Allan Clayton (tenor), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), Nicky Spence (tenor), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Benedict Nelson (baritone), Elizabeth Atherton (soprano), Robin Tritschler (tenor)
It's good to hear four quite different tenors responding to the song-cycles written for Peter Pears, and recreating each one in a totally distinctive way. Allan Clayton's feisty tenor takes... — More…
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Vaughan Williams: Albion’s Journey
The Life and Work of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Frank Ericson (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Herbert Howells, Willam Vann (piano), Ralph Vaughan Williams, Mary Bevan (soprano), Nicky Spence (tenor), Johnny Herford (baritone), Thomas Gould (violin), Heather Lowe, Hugh Rowlands (organ), Roy Douglas, Anthony Goldstone, Caroline Clemmow, Martin...
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Ludwig Thuille: Songs
Sophie Bevan (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano) & Joseph Middleton (piano)
[The masterpieces are] impeccably sung, with great warmth of tone, by Jennifer Johnston. Sophie Bevan, elegant but dropping consonants on occasion, has the lion's share of the soprano songs,... — More…
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Vaughan Williams: Purer Than Pearl
Songs and Duets for voices, piano and violin
William Vann (piano), Thomas Gould (violin), Mary Bevan (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), Nicky Spence (tenor), Johnny Herford (baritone)
Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence and pianist William Vann plead the cause for [Eight Songs from The Poisoned Kiss] very persuasively…performances and recordings are high quality — More…
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Discoveries
Roderick Williams (baritone), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Three Nocturnes is the stand-out for me – performance, music itself, everything — More…
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