Anthony Rolfe Johnson: Recital at La Monnaie

A wonderfully varied recital, with Rolfe Johnson in finest voice, above all in Britten’s Winter Words. Graham Johnson is the perfect, vivid accompanist.

Michael Tanner

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5

Michael Tanner

Published: October 13, 2016 at 2:32 pm

COMPOSERS: Benjamin Britten,Franz Schubert,Henry Purcell
LABELS: Cypres Archive
ALBUM TITLE: Recital at La Monnaie
WORKS: works by Purcell, Britten and Schubert
PERFORMER: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: Cypres Archive CYP 8607 (1996)

A wonderfully varied recital, with Rolfe Johnson in finest voice, above all in Britten’s Winter Words. Graham Johnson is the perfect, vivid accompanist.

Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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