Schubert: 21 Famous Lieder

This may be the most perfect of these discs, owing to Price’s magic partnership with Graham Johnson. Schubert’s most popular songs are given a new lease of life. Michael Tanner

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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:39 pm

COMPOSERS: Schubert
LABELS: Forlane
WORKS: 21 Famous Lieder
PERFORMER: Margaret Price (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: FOR 16698 (1993)

This may be the most perfect of these discs, owing to Price’s magic partnership with Graham Johnson. Schubert’s most popular songs are given a new lease of life. 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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