Barbara Hendricks sings Bach, Barber and Copland

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


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4

Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:33 pm

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

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

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.
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