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Review Site (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
... beats and creepy riffs. Murcof, Versailles Sessions Impressive in its reach and seriousness. Joyce DiDonato, Furore: Handel Opera Arias All in all, a marvellous solo album debut. Magdalena Kozen, Songs My Mother Taught Me Carries the same personal originality that made her debut album stand out from the crowd. Beethoven, Cello Concertos Vol.1 An expressiveness that borders on the...
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Review Site (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
... beats and creepy riffs. Murcof, Versailles Sessions Impressive in its reach and seriousness. Joyce DiDonato, Furore: Handel Opera Arias All in all, a marvellous solo album debut. Magdalena Kozen, Songs My Mother Taught Me Carries the same personal originality that made her debut album stand out from the crowd. Beethoven, Cello Concertos Vol.1 An expressiveness that borders on the...
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Review Site (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
... beats and creepy riffs. Murcof, Versailles Sessions Impressive in its reach and seriousness. Joyce DiDonato, Furore: Handel Opera Arias All in all, a marvellous solo album debut. Magdalena Kozen, Songs My Mother Taught Me Carries the same personal originality that made her debut album stand out from the crowd. Beethoven, Cello Concertos Vol.1 An expressiveness that borders on the...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
The best of the new releasesHandel: Opera Arias Joyce DiDonato (mezzo soprano), Les Talens Lyriques, cond Christophe RoussetVirgin 519038 2, £12.99 Taking no prisoners: Joyce DiDonato"Furore" shouts the CD cover. True to the billing, the flame-toned American mezzo Joyce DiDonato, famous for her dazzling Rossini portrayals, presents a gallery of distraught and/or...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Death is the first resort for such as the lovelorn Ariadne in Monteverdi's "Lamento d'Arianna", as she wails, "Death, extinguish thou the contemptible flames!". Likewise Poppea, facing banishment in L'Incoronazione di Poppea, as sung by Joyce DiDonato. Others are more phlegmatic: the woebegone protagonist of Landi's "Superbe Colli" takes solace in knowing that, like the empire, his despair...