Gramophone‘s December issue is on the shelves, and recent Delos release Colors of Feelings gets a strong review from critic Ken Smith:
“Sopranos Susanna Phillips and Elizabeth Futral illuminate the music’s broad emotional terrain…One would be hard-pressed to find a more evocative poet than Wynelle Ann Carson, whose restraint in expression finds a carefully understated setting in Lasser’s In Colors of Feelings (2009) and a touching embodiment in Phillips (for whom the songs were written). Lasser covers a broader canvas in Les visages de l’amour (1998), six French texts about love rendered in a full emotional arch by Futral…Lasser’s English and French sides come together in Nicolette et Aucasin (2008)…Pianist Margo Garrett, though thoroughly consistent earlier, here rises to another level entirely in holding the hybrid form together.” — Ken Smith, Gramophone, December 2012
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