Nimbus
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Haydn a l’anglaise
Haydn songs as edited by William Shield
Caf€ Mozart: Derek McCulloch (proprietor), Emma Kirkby (soprano), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Jenny Thomas (flute), Ian Gammie (guitar), Alastair Ross (square piano)
Delightful repertoire by Haydn for the English market in the 1780s, brightly sung with period instruments —
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A Japanese Journey
Songs by 19th & early 20th century Japanese poets and composers
Charlotte De Rothschild (soprano) & Masahiro Saitoh (piano)
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A collection of Schubert songs recorded between 1927 and 1943 has appeared on Nimbus' Prima Voce series, and playing it has been a happily fortifying experience: almost (in a broad sense of... —
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This almost forgotten tenor had a lovely lyric voice, used most ravishingly in the duet with Maria Cebotari from Madama Butterfly. —
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Geraldine Farrar in Italian Opera
with Enrico Caruso, Antonio Scotti, Gina Viafora, Josephine Jacoby
Geraldine Farrar
All the original copies are excellent, and respond well to the Nimbus method of transfer —
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The Nimbus transfer gives an added ambience, as if one is picking up an additional acoustic … —
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... the CD is well chosen to show the wide range of Lehmann's achievements ... a cornucopia of delights that anyone interested in the history of singing on disc ought to possess —
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the surface is smooth, the instruments are no longer sour, the voice takes its place naturally. Nimbus have some splendid, little-known, song songs, Sibelius's Black roses and Sigh, sedges,... —
