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American opera singer and actress
- soprano
- opera
- United States of America
- actor, opera singer, voice actor, film actor
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2024-03-28
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2024-03-01 05:00:00
Giuliani: Works for Guitar & Piano (Francesco Romano-Guitar; Daniela Costa)
Mauro Giuliani (1782-1828)Gran Duo CancertanteTwo Rondos, Op. 68Gran Variazione Concertanti, Op. 65Grand Pot-pourri National, Op. 93Variations, Op. 10Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1873)Pot-pourri Op.53Francesco Romano, Guitar; Daniela Costa, Fortepiano(Period Instruments)Nuova Era 7227/28 (1995) 2-Disc set[Flac & Scans]
2023-12-31 09:22:00
2023 in record reviews: 17th century Venice as a gay haven, Dichterliebe Reimagined, Elgar on viola, Ethel Smyth's first operatic success
Richard Boothby's Music to hear... explored Alfonso Ferrabosco's 1609 book of music for solo lyra viol. Jorge Navarro Colorado and Randall Scotting celebrated 17th-century Venice as a place of tolerance for gay artists. We know Bach, but what of the other applicants for his Leipzig post in 1723? Leipzig 1723 gave us cantatas by Bach, Telemann, and Graupner. Whilst for the next generation of the Bach family, Les Ombres took us back to the elegance of the Bach-Abel evenings in London.With Dichterliebe Reimagined, Koen van Stade and Neal Peres Da Costa brought creative freedom and musical rhetoric to bear on an historically informed account of Schumann's song cycle. Viola player Timothy Ridout seduced in his transcription of Elgar's Cello Concerto. Ethel Smyth's first major success, Der Wald, finally received its premiere recording in a terrific account from John Andrews and BBC Symphony Orchestra, making us ask, why the wait? A disc of […]
2023-12-21 07:17:00
The Nativity: the American choir, Voce in a sequence of carols from Patrick Hawes
[…] recording focusing on water-powered instruments to remarkably poetic effect - record reviewYouthful engagement & Romantic devotion: Claire Ward & JongSun Woo's CMF Lunchtime Recital - concert reviewThe glories of Roman polychoral music after Palestrina explored by I Fagiolini with Benevoli's Missa Tu es Petrus for four choirs - record reviewWe need to shift the focus from the artist's 'I' to the collective 'We': composer Samuel Andreyev on his recent disc, In Glow of Like Seclusion - interviewDichterliebe Reimagined: Koen van Stade & Neal Peres Da Costa bring creative freedom & musical rhetoric to bear on Schumann's song cycle - record reviewHome
2023-12-20 07:53:00
Like no other: Brixton Chamber Orchestra's Christmas party moved from classical and carols to rap, disco and a Shane MacGowan tribute
[…] recording focusing on water-powered instruments to remarkably poetic effect - record reviewYouthful engagement & Romantic devotion: Claire Ward & JongSun Woo's CMF Lunchtime Recital - concert reviewThe glories of Roman polychoral music after Palestrina explored by I Fagiolini with Benevoli's Missa Tu es Petrus for four choirs - record reviewWe need to shift the focus from the artist's 'I' to the collective 'We': composer Samuel Andreyev on his recent disc, In Glow of Like Seclusion - interviewDichterliebe Reimagined: Koen van Stade & Neal Peres Da Costa bring creative freedom & musical rhetoric to bear on Schumann's song cycle - record reviewA lifetime's experience: John Nelson finally records Messiah in a finely engaged performance, with a fantastic quartet of soloists - record reviewHome
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