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they're all tales and Finley is a fine tale-teller. In Loewe, he sounds as though he's singing just for you, the listener, so rapt and intense is his communication. Drake is a fine accomplice,... —
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Janet Baker - Song Recital
Dame Janet Baker/Gerald Moore, Gerald Moore (piano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano vocals)
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This Other Eden: A Landscape of English Poetry and Song
Kitty Whately (mezzo), Joseph Middleton (piano), with Kevin Whatley, Madelaine Newton, Magnus Johnston, Brian O'Kane
Navarra Quartet
Whately's choice is eclectic…[and] she sings them with attractive brightness and fervour. Her tone is not yet as distinctive as Janet Baker or Sarah Connolly, say, but there's a plangent shading... —
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Down by the Salley Gardens
Works by Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Howells & Quilter
Bejun Mehta (countertenor) & Julius Drake (piano)
Mehta is a technically excellent singer; with a firm well-supported line; an unusually resonant lower range; and fine expressive diction, well equal to Julius Drake's sturdy accompaniment. And... —
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Stanford: Love's White Flame, Songs Vol. 1
Elisabetta Paglia (vocalist), Christopher Howell (soloist)
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The recital begins with Keats and ends with Shakespeare: that can't be bad. But it also begins with Stanford and ends with Parry; what would the modernists of their time have thought about that?... —
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These are all still exceptionally beautiful, valuable reminders of an extraordinary artist. —
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