Johnson, R (composer), CDs (page 1 of 8)

Shakespeare Songs

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)

Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016 More…

Release Date: 2nd Sep 2016
Catalogue No: 9029594473
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 66 minutes

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Jacobean Lute Music

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Jakob Lindberg (lute)

The sound of Jakob Lindberg's lute, made by Sixtus Rauwolf in the last decade of the 16th century, is unusually warm...It a meticulously voiced recital that moves between court, theatre and tavern...Lindberg... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, More…

Release Date: 6th Jan 2014
Catalogue No: BIS2055
Label: BIS
Length: 81 minutes

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Perpetual Night

17th Century Ayres and Songs

Lucile Richardot (contralto)

Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

The title may be ‘Perpetual Night’ but there’s absolutely nothing gloomy or unremitting about this delicious disc and its chiaroscuro play of shading and texture…Lawes and Locke may never quite... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2018 More…

Release Date: 6th Apr 2018
Catalogue No: HMM902269
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 72 minutes

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Emma Kirkby (soprano) with Jakob Lindberg (lute), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord), Anthony Rooley (lute), Agnès Mellon (soprano), John Abberger (oboe), Thomas Georgi (viola d’amore), Lucas Harris (lute) & Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello)

London Baroque, Royal Academy of Music Baroque...

…it's often in the modest-looking pieces that she's at her most compelling. Robert Johnson's Full Fathom Five is 109 seconds of breathtaking stillness and beauty, Böddecker's Natus est Jesu... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2009 More…