Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc has done quite a bit of recording in the years leading up to this release with Les Voix Humaines, Ay que sí, particularly with Canadian label Atma Classique. You wouldn't know it by the raves about these albums in Gramophone, because it seems as though that most esteemed of classical publications isn't really paying attention to LeBlanc. A pity, but it's their loss, as if Ay que sí is any indication of what the rest of her 20 or so Atma Classique recordings are like, they must be a treasure ...
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Canadian soprano Suzie LeBlanc has done quite a bit of recording in the years leading up to this release with Les Voix Humaines, Ay que sí, particularly with Canadian label Atma Classique. You wouldn't know it by the raves about these albums in Gramophone, because it seems as though that most esteemed of classical publications isn't really paying attention to LeBlanc. A pity, but it's their loss, as if Ay que sí is any indication of what the rest of her 20 or so Atma Classique recordings are like, they must be a treasure trove indeed, as this album is just about perfect.This is a recital of early Baroque Spanish vocal music, a genre so readily identified with Jordi Savall and his wife Montserrat Figueras that one might assume that nothing could be in their class. Think again -- the purity of LeBlanc's voice floats effortlessly over the sensitively stated, yet rhythmically propelling accompaniment of Stephen Stubbs' Baroque guitar, Susie Napper and Margaret Little's viols, Maxine Eilander's Spanish...
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