Audio CD (March 31, 2009)
Label: Chandos
ASIN: B001RIGCE2

Christine Brewer's earlier recital (CHAN 3127) introduced into this series the dramatic soprano voice and included in its programme, as does its successor, arias from Gluck's Alceste and Wagner's Tannhäuser. Both of these are operas which in a previous age were sung by Kirsten Flagstad, by general consent probably the greatest heroicdramatic soprano of all. Our soprano now adds one of the most formidable challenges in the repertoire, Leonore's solo in Act I of Beethoven's Fidelio. Otherwise, the two significant extensions are in time, backward to Handel, forward to Britten and Menotti.

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