Ben Johnson: I heard you singing (English Songs) | Opus Arte OACD9032D

Ben Johnson: I heard you singing (English Songs)

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Label: Opus Arte

Cat No: OACD9032D

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 4th January 2016

Contents

About

Audience Prize-winner at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World (2013), accomplished young English tenor Ben Johnson lends his dulcet tones to a programme featuring a bouquet of ballads from the British Isles.

This song form enjoyed extraordinary popularity in private homes throughout the Victorian, Edwardian and Modern eras, inspiring generations of talented composers – men and women – to marry words and music in a delightful variety of styles.

Presenting the major singers of today and the stars of tomorrow, the Rosenblatt Recitals are London's only world-class season of opera recitals.

Reviews

Tenor Ben Johnson, light-voiced and lyrical, with high notes to make you swoon, and pianist James Baillieu, alert and responsive, are ideal duo partners on this Rosenblatt Recital disc of late Victorian and Edwardian ballads, popular parlour songs at the time of their writing but now mostly forgotten. Fiona Maddocks
The Observer 10 January 2016

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