Barbara Hendricks sings Bach, Barber and Copland
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COMPOSERS: Bach,Barber,Copland
LABELS: EMI
WORKS: JS Bach: Cantatas; Copland: Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson; Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
PERFORMER: Hendricks (soprano); various orchestras and conductors
CATALOGUE NO: EMI 629 3552
This lovely singer is here at her best; both in Bach and the vastly different Barber she is ideal in the purity and sweetness of her singing. Excellent accompanists. Michael Tanner
Authors
Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.