Debussy: Songs

This pair of discs shows the impressive range of Hendricks’s repertoire, though she doesn’t command a sufficiently wide spectrum of colour or variety of emotion for hours of listening. No texts are given. Michael Tanner

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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:33 pm

COMPOSERS: Debussy,Rachmaninov
LABELS: EMI
WORKS: Rachmaninov Songs by Debussy, Rossini, Liszt, Rachmaninov etc
PERFORMER: Hendricks (soprano), Béroff, Scheja (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: EMI 629 3652

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.