Entries Tagged as ‘Recording Review’

April 9, 2009

A soprano who can really sing baroque music…

There are two things that annoy me when I am listening to recordings of Bach cantatas: scratches on CDs and annoying inept warbling sopranos who sing Bach like Verdi (on a humorous note, some horrible sopranos are funny). A recent find from eMusic remedies both of those problems.
I had never heard Carolyn Sampson before I [...]

February 24, 2009

Simone Dinnerstein

There are about as many new pianists as there are new species of plants and animals being discovered.  And then there are the Simone Dinnersteins.
I first heard about Simone Dinnerstein on the “recommended for you” section of my eMusic welcome page. I had recently had a hankering for some Bach keyboard works, and as fate would have [...]