Classical Reviews/Vocal Collections

17 interviews, and over 300 reviews of classical CDs, SACDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and downloads in this 480-page issue!

Latest Music Reviews

It might be that “Zeit,” the German word for “time,” and “Geist,” the German word for “spirit,” translate easily, but when they are conjoined into “Zeitgeist,”...

Soprano Kathrin Graf, now 70 years old and quite possibly retired—the last activity I could find for her online was from 2004—has made very few recordings,...


Recent Music Reviews

Although this album draws upon operatic singles and sets recorded from 1949 to 1960, mezzo Giulietta Simionato (1910-2010) began her professional career as early as 1932,...

Here is another diva disc, this one performed by one of the brighter stars in the operatic firmament, Joyce DiDonato, who has achieved a well-deserved reputation...

In one of his weekly online missives to subscribers, Pristine Audio proprietor Andrew Rose stated that he has been asked why Pristine devotes considerable attention to...

This is the debut CD of young (b. 1979) mezzo Pia Heise who, interestingly enough, began her career as a jazz singer while still in her...