French Song Edition
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Special offer. L’invitation au voyage
Mélodies from La belle époque
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Graham Johnson (piano), Paul (1852–1933) & Lucien (1860–1909) Hillemacher
There are some fine songs here. I was glad… to be reminded what a good composer Delibes is, and to be introduced to Lecocq's wonderfully witty settings of La Fontaine. The actual piano sound... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2006, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Saint-Saëns: Songs
RecommendedFrançois Le Roux (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano), Krysia Osostowicz (violin), Philippa Davies (flute)
This is the most resounding blow yet to be struck for the mélodies of Saint-Saëns. François Le Roux, with his incisive diction and ability to characterise each song, is a real champion for the... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Songs by Reynaldo Hahn
This two-CD set is the most representative recording of Hahn's songs ever made. It includes the complete Etudes Latines and Rondels (both with choir) as well as many of his most familiar songs.
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton
The two cycles, Douze rondels and Etudes latines, are linked by a common fascination with the past.
The Douze rondels were composed to poems in a medieval metre, which allowed Hahn to try his... — More…2 CDs
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Special offer. Fauré - The Complete Songs - 2
Un paysage choisi
Jennifer Smith, Geraldine McGreevy, Felicity Lott (sopranos), Stella Doufexis (mezzo), John Mark Ainsley, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenors), Christopher Maltman, Stephen Varcoe (baritones), Graham Johnson (piano)
There's a high standard of singing throughout and… Geraldine McGreevy offers delicacy, shape and direction, combined with an intelligent variety of tone, and Christopher Maltman's more forthright... — More…
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Special offer. Charles Gounod - Songs
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)
This well-filled two-CD set is surely the most wide-ranging single issue of Gounod's mélodies.
The first of the discs confirms the commonly held view of Gounod. Almost without exception the... — More…2 CDs
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Special offer. Fauré - The Complete Songs - 3
Chanson d’amour
Felicity Lott, Jennifer Smith (soprano), John Mark Ainsley, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor), Christopher Maltman, Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Ronan O’Hora, Graham Johnson (piano)
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Special offer. Fauré - La Chanson d'Eve and other songs
RecommendedJanet Baker (mezzo soprano) & Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Henri Duparc - The Complete Songs
RecommendedSarah Walker (mezzo soprano), Thomas Allen (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Roger Vignoles is a most sympathetic accompanist, and virtuosic where virtuosity is called for, and the whole set is at one with Duparc's own evaluation of these magnificent songs — More…
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Building a Library, October 2006, First Choice
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Special offer. Musique Adorable
Felicity Lott (soprano) William Burden (tenor) Stephen Varcoe (baritone) Graham Johnson(piano)
Adorable indeed … these songs steal into the heart. This is a set made for a lifetime's listening and enjoyment — More…
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Special offer. Fauré - The Complete Songs - 4
Dans un parfum de roses
Jennifer Smith, Felicity Lott, Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
…the final volume and jewel in the crown of Hyperion's completely Fauré songs. …all the singers involved in this glorious project, while not always in their first radiance and purity of voice,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice
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