Park has recorded one of the most satisfying debuts for many a day. This is a voice that rises to every challenge...Park ‘lives’ her characters too, with coloratura decoration and cadenzas always at the service of the drama...Bertrand de Billy is her perfect partner, conducting the matchless Vienna Symphony Orchestra...It makes you hear these old familiar arias as if for the very first time.

The voice is a lovely lyric instrument. It’s agile and light, and blooms beautifully as it rises up the register – something that first really becomes apparent here when we get to a touching account of Cleopatra’s ‘Se pietà di me non senti’. In fact, she’s generally at her best in the calmer numbers…With able support from Bertrand de Billy and the Wiener Symphoniker, though, this is a promising debut from a very fine singer, and one that offers plenty to enjoy.

What Park lacks in subtlety she makes up for in range. The 32-year-old Juilliard alumna shines as Fiorilla in Il turco in Italia while ‘O mio babbino caro’ from Gianni Schicchi brims with wheedling charm. Gluck’s Euridice finds her in ravishing voice, her prodigious technique lightly worn...The VSO and de Billy enliven every track with their polished enthusiasm.