AnnMurray DBE

Press

• Complete Songs of Fauré, Vol 1

  Murray

  Jul 2016

  • Ann Murray, who spins long, velvety lines in songs ranging from Fauré’s first published work to the Cinq Mélodies “de Venise”, taking in a gorgeously supple Après un Rêve on the way.

    • Erica Jeal, The Guardian
    • 07 July 2016

• Irish Culture in Britain: A Centenary Celebration

  Wigmore Hall

  Apr 2016

  • Just as deep melancholy, and a recollection of what Yeats called a “terrible beauty”, threatened to overwhelm us all, Ann Murray leapt in with a dazzle of patter-song doggerel. The traditional Phil the Fluter’s Ball – “with the toot of the flute and the twiddle on the fiddle-o, Hopping in the middle like a herrin’ on a griddle-o” – brought the house down. Murray was then presented, by Daniel Mulhall, the Irish ambassador, and John Gilhooly, with the Wigmore Medal. She deserved it for that performance alone, delivered with the finger-pointing, gossipy aplomb of one who might have propped up a Dublin bar all her life. Luckily for us she has, so far, decided against that path, preferring a world-class operatic, oratorio and lieder career which continues, after some four decades, busy as ever.

    • Fiona Maddocks, The Observer
    • 24 April 2016

• Britten The Turn of the Screw

  Snape Maltings Aldeburgh

  Oct 2015

  • In a fine cast, everyone hit a raw nerve. Bevan, in lustrous voice, lost a few words but commanded attention. Ann Murray made a remarkably potent Mrs Grose, and the two ghosts, Staples’s Quint and Jane Irwin’s Miss Jessel, had plenty of petulant vehemence. The children, Joshua Kenney’s Miles and Louise Moseley’s Flora, provided perfectly horrible blank complicity as the screw turned.

    • Neil Fisher, The Times
    • 29 October 2015

  • Inflecting with an intelligence and subtlety that suggests housekeeper Mrs Grose understands more than she says

    • David Nice, The Arts Desk
    • 27 October 2025

  • Ann Murray’s convincing Mrs Grose

    • Helen Wallace, Classical-Music.com
    • 28 October 2015

• Mozart Le nozze di Figaro

  Salzburg Festival

  Aug 2025

  • Ann Murray, on crisp, Maggie Smith form, sizzled as Marzellina.

    • Fiona Maddocks, The Observer
    • 23 August 2015

• Brahms & Schumann: Lieder

  Linn Records

  Feb 2015

  • Here are 25 songs that take you to the heights of 19th Century Romanticism, performed beautifully by some of the best current Lieder artists. ... This is a marvelous Lieder album.

    • Mary Kunz Goldman, The Buffalo News
    • 01 March 2015

  • Ann Murray sings with still-steady tone, sensitive phrasing and a quiet, concentrated intensity, flaring into passion in the central ‘An die Königin Elisabeth’ and culminating in a hypnotic, otherworldly ‘Gebet’ as Mary prays for deliverance. Here, and elsewhere, Murray has the art of increasing the tension without raising the volume.

    • Richard Wigmore, Gramophone Magazine

  • Her Schumann selection begins with a touchingly delivered account of the Poems of Mary, Queen of Scots in which her artistic intelligence and commitment are as apparent as her skilful balance between words and notes.

    • BBC Music Magazine
    • 01 June 2015