Anush Hovhannisyan
VIVAT114
Decades: A Century of Song – Volume 2 (1820-1830)
John Mark Ainsley tenor
Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano
Christopher Maltman baritone
Anush Hovhannisyan soprano
Robin Tritschler tenor
Luis Gomes tenor
Malcolm Martineau piano
“Beguiling and deliciously nuanced”
(The Scotsman)
“Thrillingly caught by the flame-toned Armenian soprano Anush Hovhannisyan … Sarah Connolly’s deliriously impassioned singing”
(Gramophone)
“Malcolm Martineau is superb, technically immaculate and consistently imaginative”
(BBC Music Magazine)
“A perceptively assembled and uncommonly interesting survey of art songs”
(MusicWeb International)
VIVAT119
Liederkreis – Decades: A Century of Song – volume 4 (1840-1850)
Florian Boesch baritone
Anush Hovhanissyan soprano
Ida Evelina Ränzlöv mezzo-soprano
Nick Pritchard tenor
Oliver Johnston tenor
Alexey Gusev baritone
Samuel Hasselhorn baritone
Malcolm Martineau piano
“Any collector of this revelatory series is going to want this new disc”
(Gramophone)
“Florian Boesch has a deep understanding of Heine’s searing texts”
(BBC Music Magazine)
“A distinguished and highly persuasive account”
(Musicweb International)
“A wonderfully poetic performance”
(Planet Hugill)