Classical Reviews/Vocal Collections

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This recording was first issued on CD in 1990. It features romantic songs for voice, horn, and piano by famous composers like Nicolai, Proch, Donizetti, Massenet,...

It is worth the price of the entire disc just to have in your collection this remarkably beautiful performance of La paloma —with the two singers...


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A CD for Sumi Jo fans exclusively, with its selection that offers too little contrast, presented by a soprano with limited vocal colors in her palette....

In May 2007 I reviewed the companion album to “La Serenata.” Both releases stem from the same recording sessions in May 2005 under the supervision of...

My colleague Henry Fogel wrote in Fanfare 27:1 about another “Great Recordings of the 20th Century” release featuring Christoff’s Mussorgsky: “He captures everything that Mussorgsky put...

The current spate of vocal recitals focusing on singers of another era brings a new winner with French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky’s homage to Carestini. The name...


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This recording was first issued in 1997 on EMI. It is a record of a concert that demonstrates the versatility of Schwarzkopf who sings classical songs...

I wonder if any collectors outside the New York-New Jersey area remember Edward J. Smith and his “pirate” EJS label of the 1960s and early 1970s....