Rafael de Acha reviews the new Lawrence Brownlee, Sarah Coburn, Constantine Orbelian, and Kaunas City Symphony recording of Bellini’s I Puritani:

“Not since the 1953 studio recordings of Bellini’s Bel Canto tour de force with deluxe casts: the vintage Cetra with Callas, Di Stefano, Panerai, and Rossi-Lemeni, and the various 1960’s releases with Dame Joan Sutherland leading various casts has there been such a cohesively stylish group of soloists as the one assembled by DELOS for this effort. With veteran Opera specialist Constantine Orbelian, the newly appointed music director of the New York City Opera, helming Lithuania’s Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra and State Choir the results are nothing short of excellent. … the silvery voiced Sarah Coburn, the superb Lawrence Brownlee, the very fine lyric baritone Azamat Zheltyrguzov, and the impressive basso cantante  Tadas Girininkas meet the demands of their assignments with elegant vocalism, turning what can often be a competition for the spotlight into an ensemble effort in which the sum of the parts equals great results. The recording is superbly engineered and nobly produced, something one has come to expect from this enterprising label.”

—Rafael de Acha, All About The Arts

See the full review on RafaelMusicNotes.com