‘Brahms & Schumann: Lieder’ sees Dame Ann Murray, one of the great vocal artists of the past decades, return to the recording studio to perform a personal selection of Lieder. Ann’s first solo album in over a decade will also be her final Lieder recording and a fitting way to draw her long and distinguished recording career to a close. The recording features Malcolm Martineau (piano) Benjamin Appl (baritone), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Johnny Langridge (tenor & Ann’s son) and Hester Dickson (piano & Malcolm’s mother). Ann Murray is a lover of song and has been acclaimed worldwide for her own performances. Following a Brahms recital at Wigmore Hall in 2014, The Times stated: ‘Her still-penetrating mezzo was the highlight of the evening. Murray really sings through Brahms’s cantabile lines while losing nothing in theatrical awareness.’
