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This was Gwyneth Jones’s first disc, and in many ways the best. Her youthful voice was extremely beautiful, steady and almost always in tune. The capacity to characterise with colour and inflection is already present. Michael Tanner

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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 3:54 pm

COMPOSERS: BeethovenWagnerVerdi
LABELS: Decca
ALBUM TITLE: Gwyneth Jones
WORKS: Arias
PERFORMER: Gwyneth JonesVienna State Opera Chorus & OrchestraArgeo Quadri
CATALOGUE NO: 475 6412

This was Gwyneth

Jones’s first disc, and

in many ways the

best. Her youthful

voice was extremely

beautiful, steady and almost always

in tune. The capacity to characterise

with colour and inflection is already

present. 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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