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Philip Tsaras
Gershwin: Gershwin Rhapsody (Decca)
The concert platform meets Broadway in this thoroughly enjoyable disc of piano music and songs by Gershwin [PT]
In Relations – song recital (Hänssler Classic)
A young soprano evidently to look out for, in a lovely debut recital [PT]
Sonic Alchemy (Sono Luminus)
An absorbing, rewarding programme, despite reservations about a couple of the performances [PT]
Sir Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) Sea Songs (Deutsche Grammophon)
A disc to be enjoyed by all but the most curmudgeonly [PT]
Romantic Songs – So tief im Abendrot (Hänssler Classic)
Disappointingly inadequate performances of Lieder arrangements, neither necessary nor desirable [PT]
Rossini: Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra (Naxos)
Rossini’s rarely performed Elizabethan opera is given a lacklustre performance in the latest in Naxos’s Rossini Wildbad series [PT]
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (Pristine Audio)
Pristine refreshes Callas’s 1959 stereo recording and prompts a re-evaluation of its considerable merits [PT]
Schubert: Lieder. Love’s Lasting Power (Delphian)
Two recent competition winners in an impressive debut recital, more than promising [PT]
Sandrine Piau (soprano) Reflet (Alpha Classics)
An attractive programme of French orchestral songs that will provide much enjoyment, but there are better versions of the well-known songs [PT]
Schubert: Winterreise (Genuin)
An imaginative and thoroughly rewarding re-working of Schbert’s Winterreise for voice, chorus and two accordions [PT]
Cherubini: Medea (Pristine Audio)
Callas’ stereo studio Medea gets the Pristine XR treatment [PT]
Diana Damrau (soprano): Operette (Erato)
An interesting and unhackneyed programme of operetta arias, with a soprano who possibly divides opinion [PT]
Dreams Desires Desolation – English Song (Divine Art)
An interesting disc of English Parlour Songs suffers from a lack of personality and variety [PT]
Noel Coward and Friends: A Most Marvellous Party (Signum Classics)
What an absolutely splendid party! Darling, I couldn’t have liked it more [PT]
Puccini: Tosca (Pentatone)
A sonically splendid recording of Tosca overshadowed by ghosts from the past [PT]
Bellini: Composizioni da Camera (Acte Préalable)
An enterprising collection of Bellini songs is unfortunately let down by less than ideal performances [PT]
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