Jennifer Johnston
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Korngold: Die tote Stadt
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2021
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Opera, October 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year
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John Adams: Doctor Atomic
RecommendedGerald Finley (Robert Oppenheimer), Julia Bullock (Kitty Oppenheimer), Brindley Sherratt (Edward Teller), Samuel Sakker (James Nolan), Andrew Staples (Robert Wilson), Jennifer Johnston (Pasqualita)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Adams
Finley ‘owns’ the characterisation of J Robert Oppenheimer…and Julia Bullock’s Kitty [is] the most ardent possible. All else is compelling on every level, with superb British support from Brindley... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th June 2018
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Opera Recording
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Opera (20th/21st century)
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Opera
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Winner - Opera
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex & Apollon Musagète
RecommendedJennifer Johnston (Jocasta), Stuart Skelton (Oedipus), Gidon Saks (Creon) & Fanny Ardant (narrator)
Gentlemen of the Monteverdi Choir & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Johnston's superb interpretation lifts the whole performance up a couple of notches...But John Eliot Gardiner's conducting somehow misses the work's elusive power. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th April 2014
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Building a Library, May 2018, Recommended Recording
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Korngold: Die tote Stadt
RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Paul), Marlis Petersen (Marietta), Andrej Filonczyk (Frank/Fritz), Jennifer Johnston (Brigitta), Mirjam Mesak (Juliette), Corinna Scheurle (Lucienne), Manuel Günther (Gaston/Victorin), Dean Power (Graf Albert), Bayerische Staatsoper, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Stone (director)
There’s a depth and emotional intelligence to this staging that disarmed my initial resistance...on every level, a glorious achievement. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2021
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Opera, October 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Video Performance
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Recording of the Year
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Wagner: Die Walküre
Stuart Skelton (Siegmund), Eric Halfvarson (Hunding), James Rutherford (Wotan), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde), Elisabeth Kulman (Fricka), Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
The orchestral playing is predictably excellent—the woodwind solos always have character, and the low brass have an ability to add menace and bite without overpowering the orchestra—but Rattle... — More…
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Record Review, 18th April 2020, Record of the Week
4 CDs
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New,
Best of BRSO Sebastian Manz, Alwyn Mellor, Anna Gabler, Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Claudia Huckle, Katherine Broderick (soprano), Eva Vogel, Anna Lapkovskaja, Simone Schröder, Martha Argerich (piano), Genia Kühmeier (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (contralto), Mark Padmore (tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann...
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There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
40 CDs
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The A-Z of Mozart Opera
Rebecca Bottone, Klara Ek, Martene Grimson, Susan Gritton, Anna Leese (soprano), Cora Burggraaf (mezzo), Allan Clayton, Andrew Staples (tenor), Mark Stone (baritone), Matthew Rose (bass)
The Mozartists, Ian Page
performed with skill and grace under the able direction of Ian Page. — More…
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Britten: Complete Songs Volume 2
Malcolm Martineau (piano), Allan Clayton (tenor), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), Nicky Spence (tenor), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Benedict Nelson (baritone), Elizabeth Atherton (soprano), Robin Tritschler (tenor)
It's good to hear four quite different tenors responding to the song-cycles written for Peter Pears, and recreating each one in a totally distinctive way. Allan Clayton's feisty tenor takes... — More…
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Vaughan Williams: Albion’s Journey
The Life and Work of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Frank Ericson (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Herbert Howells, Willam Vann (piano), Ralph Vaughan Williams, Mary Bevan (soprano), Nicky Spence (tenor), Johnny Herford (baritone), Thomas Gould (violin), Heather Lowe, Hugh Rowlands (organ), Roy Douglas, Anthony Goldstone, Caroline Clemmow, Martin...
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