None but the Lonely Heart, English soprano Amanda Roocroft's first solo song recital, starts with six songs by Tchaikovsky, moves through five by Debussy, and concludes with seven by Strauss. Best known as an opera singer, Roocroft brings the virtues of an opera singer to her recital: a big voice, a strong tone, and a dramatic delivery. This works in all three sets of songs, but it works better in some sets better than others. In the deeply emotional Tchaikovsky songs, Roocroft is completely persuasive in putting across the ...
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None but the Lonely Heart, English soprano Amanda Roocroft's first solo song recital, starts with six songs by Tchaikovsky, moves through five by Debussy, and concludes with seven by Strauss. Best known as an opera singer, Roocroft brings the virtues of an opera singer to her recital: a big voice, a strong tone, and a dramatic delivery. This works in all three sets of songs, but it works better in some sets better than others. In the deeply emotional Tchaikovsky songs, Roocroft is completely persuasive in putting across the music's acute sensitivity. In the highly sensuous Debussy songs, she is equally convincing in communicating the music's erotic intensity. But in the emotional and sensuous but more technically difficult and musically intimate Strauss songs, she cannot entirely modulate her voice for the more personal scale of the songs. Still, for the loveliness of Roocroft's voice and the attractiveness of her Tchaikovsky and Debussy, plus the skillful and sensitive accompaniments of pianist...
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