ClassicsOnline.com features a weekly complimentary track, and this week they are featuring Delos’ latest digital release, A Fool For Love: Tenor Arias by Michael Spyres. The free track, and album, is already generating some lofty praise:
“This is the debut album of emerging young American Tenor and Missouri native Michael Spyres. Three things I quite like about this album include: the song selection, Mr. Spyres vocal quality/technique, and musical interpretation.
Song Selection includes many well-known tenor arias, and then some that are unfamiliar to me… just hearing for the first time. Vocal quality/technique: Mr. Spyres sings beautifully, you can just tell he really enjoys singing and entertaining. Musical interpretation: Mr. Spyres musical interpretation is very unique and this helps to identify HIS sound–he certainly has a distinct sound. Overall, I give this album 5 THUMBS UP! If you love Tenor Arias and are looking for something fresh and fun, then you will certainly enjoy this album.” – User Review by “bc123223”
Visit ClassicsOnline.com to download Track 1: Donizetti: La fille du Regiment: “Ah! mes amis…Pour mon ame” for FREE!
You can also purchase the full album in mp3 format on ClassicsOnline.
MICHAEL SPYRES
A FOOL FOR LOVE
Tenor Arias
“Michael Spyres has a lovely, liquid tenor, all honey for love duets and some metal for cries of outraged honor.” – John Yohalem, from Opera Today
You may well be hard-pressed to name a classic opera that lacks a love-story – or a tenor as the main romantic hero. Accordingly, emerging American tenor Michael Spyres has come up with a fresh and fascinating pretext for A Fool for Love: his new collection of tenor arias on Delos.
Michael has carefully selected thirteen mostly well-known arias by composers ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky, encompassing a staggering array of love-related circumstances and emotions. He then sequenced them so as to tell the love-story of a single romantic protagonist. The album’s booklet contains a two-act “plot synopsis,” in which each segment of our hero’s story is indexed to the corresponding aria.