Ben Johnson
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Dame Ethel Smyth: Mass in D & Overture to 'The Wreckers'
RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sakari Oramo
Oramo rises to the work’s ambition with a fiercely committed, highly persuasive reading that indulges generosity of scale and imagination while pinpointing the Mass’s many felicities of detail.... — More…
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Record Review, 5th October 2019, Disc of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th October 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Handel: The Occasional Oratorio, HWV62
Julia Doyle (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor) & Peter Harvey (baritone)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Howard Arman
Julia Doyle sings with quicksilver suppleness…Peter Harvey’s diction, vocal suavity and persuasive authority are all spot-on. Ben Johnson’s perfect enunciation, husky timbre and fulsome projection... — More…
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Britten: Complete Songs Volume 1
Malcolm Martineau (piano), James Geer (tenor), Ben Johnson (tenor), Caryl Hughes (mezzo), Philip Smith (baritone), Nicky Spence (tenor), Katherine Broderick (soprano), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Andrew Tortise (tenor)
James Geer, a tenor with an instinct for the inflection of poetry that matches the composer's own, offers 'A Dirge'...Katherine Broderick brings by turns a forlorn beauty and a fiery plangency... — More…
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A Song More Silent
New Works to Mark Remembrance Day
Alexandra Stevenson (soprano), Sophie Bevan (soprano), Carolyn Dobbin (mezzo), Ben Johnson (tenor), David Kimberg (baritone), Michael Chance (counter-tenor)
Portsmouth Grammar School Chamber Choir & London Mozart Players, Portsmouth Grammar Junior School Choir, The Choristers of St. Thomas’s...
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Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
Ben Johnson (tenor)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Edward Gardner
The BBC Symphony Chorus sings with languid exaltation, yet it is the orchestral detail that impresses most here, right from the still, mystery-laden opening...Gardner conducts with such conviction... — More…
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Britten: Canticles I-V
Ben Johnson (tenor), James Baillieu (piano), Christopher Ainslie (countertenor), Benedict Nelson (baritone), Martin Owen (horn) & Lucy Wakeford (harp)
the expressive nuance of James Baillieu's piano accompanying is reminiscent of Britten's own...Johnson is at his best in Still Falls the Rain and in The Death of Narcissus, in writing that reveals... — More…
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232 Sophie Bevan (soprano), Clint van der Linde (countertenor), Ben Johnson (tenor) & Hakan Vramsmo, Colin Campbell (baritones)
Rodolfus Choir & Southern Sinfonia, Ralph Allwood
they achieve remarkable facility in passagework: I've never heard nine basses in such perfect accord in the tortuous 'Et iterum venturus est'...The soloists are a fine team. In 'Domine Deus',... — More…
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