Although it brings together an interesting mix of Ned Rorem's songs and cycles -- some obscure, like the Six Songs for High Voice, and some more popular, like the cycle Ariel and the stand-alone Alleluia -- this Orfeo release starring soprano Laura Aikin comes across as bland and academic. Aikin, who has had considerable international success as an operatic coloratura, has an agile and attractive voice, and she sings technical showstoppers like "Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going Out of Town in the Spring" and "The Dove in ...
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Although it brings together an interesting mix of Ned Rorem's songs and cycles -- some obscure, like the Six Songs for High Voice, and some more popular, like the cycle Ariel and the stand-alone Alleluia -- this Orfeo release starring soprano Laura Aikin comes across as bland and academic. Aikin, who has had considerable international success as an operatic coloratura, has an agile and attractive voice, and she sings technical showstoppers like "Song to a Fair Young Lady, Going Out of Town in the Spring" and "The Dove in Spring" with impressive clarity and ease. Few recital singers could even touch those two songs, let alone bring such vocal polish to them. But her English diction is so unclear that the dense poems of Browning, Stevens, and Plath (among others) are impossible to follow without a printed text. As a result, the listener can only engage with these songs on a purely musical level, and Rorem's chosen style -- slightly meandering vocal lines over restrained accompaniments that rarely stray...
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