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The Voice of Alfreda Hodgson: Britten, Moeran, Brahms, Ireland | Heritage HTGCD125

The Voice of Alfreda Hodgson: Britten, Moeran, Brahms, Ireland

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Label: Heritage

Cat No: HTGCD125

Barcode: 5060332663149

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Expected Release Date: 12th September 2025

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Contents

Artists

Alfreda Hodgson (contralto)
Keith Swallow (piano)
Alan Rowlands (piano)
Ludmila Navratil (viola)

Works

Brahms, Johannes

Gesange (2), op.91 for alto, viola and piano
Gesange (9), op.69
» no.9 Madchenfluch ('Ruft die Mutter, rugt der Tochter')
Lieder (5), op.107
» no.3 Das Madchen spricht
» no.5 Madchenlied (Auf die Nacht in der Spinnstub'n)
Lieder (6), op.85
» no.3 Madchenlied
Lieder (7), op.95
» no.1 Das Madchen
» no.6 Madchenlied

Britten, Benjamin

A Charm of Lullabies, op.41

Ireland, John

Bed in Summer
Earth's Call (A Sylvan Rhapsody)
Mother and Child
Songs (3) to poems by Arthur Symons
Songs (3) to poems by Thomas Hardy
The Three Ravens
What art thou thinking of?

Moeran, Ernest John

Shakespeare Songs (4)

Artists

Alfreda Hodgson (contralto)
Keith Swallow (piano)
Alan Rowlands (piano)
Ludmila Navratil (viola)

About

Heritage presents a tribute to the wonderful contralto voice of Alfreda Hodgson. During the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Hodgson was the first choice contralto for many conductors and composers, not least Benjamin Britten, and she enjoyed a highly successful career in the concert hall, and to a lesser extent, opera house. The studio recordings featured here are of repertoire with which she was closely associated, English song and the lieder of Brahms. Informative biographical notes are written by Tully Potter.

Music critic Alan Blyth wrote in The Times: ‘Alfreda Hodgson, the contralto, is one of those singers who have an innate ability to phrase naturally and strike the precise balance between line and expression.’

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