Mosuc takes few prisoners on this bel canto CD...her singing can be viscerally exciting...There's a thoughtfulness about Mosuc's singing, too...Not all of Mosuc's characterisation is as elegantly characterised [as her Maria Stuarda]...Yet the excitement of hearing a dramatic coloratura soprano singing with such intelligence and accuracy generally outweighs such reservations.

the overall production here is meticulous. Never does one have the sense that she has learnt arias just for the recording...Mosuc is formidable. Her medium-weight coloratura has the necessary range and flexibility, her upper range being particularly thrilling, with high notes that aren't just confident in dramatically appropriate ways.

Mosuc is not found lacking when it comes to surmounting the fioriture of whichever cabaletta is being sung, her technical prowess ensuring admirable results and the voice well honed, with trills and clean articulation in florid stretches.

If she’s not always such an individual interpreter as in this piece, there are not many sopranos around who can sing this music to her level of technical accomplishment or with her creative sense of rhythmic flexibility; she has fully understood that it’s a mistake to hurry through Donizetti’s lines, which require not only careful handling but also a sense of shape invariably allied to a steady but purposeful sense of progress.