Gramophone Magazine reviews Adrianne Pieczonka Sings Strauss • Wagner in the October 2015 Issue: “It is difficult to believe that Adrianne Pieczonka has built up some years of experience of singing taxing Strauss and Wagner roles in the opera house. Heard under the close scrutiny of a Lieder recital, her soprano retains a bloom that…
New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini has Adrianne Pieczonka and Brian Zeger’s Strauss • Wagner in his Classical Playlist this week: “Sopranos who specialize in Wagner and Strauss have to scale back their sizable voices when they sing lieder, even songs by those composers. Adrianne Pieczonka accomplishes this impressively in this rewarding recital program, accompanied…
Last month we told you about an upcoming Delos release featuring mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton and Brian Zeger, now you can get a preview of the two of them together courtesy of WQXR’s The Greene Space! Skip to around the 16-minute mark in the video below:
ResMusica reviews the new “must-have” Adrianne Pieczonka Sings Strauss • Wagner recording: “Not knowing what to expect of this Lieder CD, Adrianne Pieczonka’s great lyrical-dramatic voice proves that she has met the challenge with no difficulty. At her side on the piano is Brian Zeger, whose utmost care supports this powerful voice with a perfectly…
Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton is in the recording studios this week with pianist Brian Zeger working on an upcoming Delos release, but that’s not the only reason she’s in the news today: From The New York Times: Jamie Barton, the acclaimed young mezzo-soprano, will return to the Metropolitan Opera in September as Giovanna Seymour in Donizetti’s…
Delos artist Adrianne Pieczonka talks Tosca, opera and more in this interview from 2012. Watch below and then listen to her new Adrianne Pieczonka Sings Strauss & Wagner recording with pianist Brian Zeger: Adrianne Pieczonka Sings Strauss • Wagner Praised for her “impeccably pure and iridescent voice” (Financial Times), soprano Adrianne Pieczonka is primarily known…
The Guardian‘s Erica Jeal gives a four-star review to Adrianne Pieczonka and Brian Zeger‘s latest recording, Adrianne Pieczonka Sings Strauss and Wagner: “There’s an appealing intimacy to this recital disc by Adrianne Pieczonka… Up close, paired with pianist Brian Zeger, the focused sweetness of her soprano sounds as radiant as ever…if one sometimes wishes for…
Critic Grego Applegate Edwards breaks down the new Adrianne Pieczonka Sings Strauss & Wagner recording on his Classical-Modern Music Review site: “Strauss in many ways was an original extension of Wagner, so grouping the two together is not at all a stretch. And both wrote lieder, Strauss especially. Consequently when an excellent Canadian soprano treats…
In Adrianne Pieczonka’s first release with Delos she blesses us with a captivating and varied program of songs by Strauss and Wagner. Particularly fond of the art song genre (and of the soprano voice), Strauss created 158 of them throughout his long life, and many of his dozen songs heard here are among his true masterpieces. The opera specialist…
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Christophe Huss has a rave review for Isabel Leonard and her Preludios recording in Le Devoir: “Isabel Leonard combines radiant beauty, apparent simplicity and vocal and dramatic talent at the very highest level. To be sure, the American singer with Argentinian roots, holder of the 2005 Marilyn Horne Award, will be one of the stars…
Huffington Post contributor Sean Martinfield takes “A Time Out” with Isabel Leonard to talk about her June 4-6 performances with the San Francisco Symphony and her new Preludios CD: Timing being everything, Isabel’s new CD, Preludios, was released the day we spoke. “I’m just super proud of it,” said Isabel. “It’s very fun music. It’s…
InfoDad sees Isabel Leonard’s Preludios as a “prelude to…increasing listener interest not only in these songs but also in Leonard…” “Two folk-based and dark-hued songs by Lorca come across particularly well here, as do Montsalvatge’s Cinco canciónes negras, whose varied moods both Leonard and pianist Brian Zeger seem to understand intuitively and thus handle with…
Buffalo News features Isabel Leonard’s new Preludios recording in a slew of new reviews: “American mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, who has made several memorable appearances recently with the Metropolitan Opera, is of Argentinian ancestry on one side of her family. That side shines in this Spanish song recital, which includes music from Catalonia, Castile, Andalusia and…
Four New Delos Releases! Isabel Leonard: Preludios “…magnetic charisma and a remarkable depth of tone” – David Allen, Bachtrack Such glowing praise is entirely typical of the critical response to soprano Isabel Leonard’s work, whether in opera or the concert stage. Her luxuriant vocal tone, riveting stage presence and remarkable artistic versatility make her one…
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