Lara reviews
Duets by Bizet, Boito, Donizetti, Verdi, Gounod, Lara and F. Hermann
This is boys having fun. And the CD is at its best when the composer is having fun too. So Rolando Villazón and Ildar Abdrazakov make the most of Donizetti’s Act I duet from L’eslisir d’amore, with Villazón a plaintive love-sick Nemorino and Abdrazakov a snake-like Dulcamara.
Alma Española: Voice and guitar works by Rodrigo, Tárrega, Granados, Lorca, Montsalvatge, Falla and Lara
Voice and guitar may be a natural combination for the passions and colours of Spanish song, but rarely have they sounded as vivaciously, seductively idiomatic on disc as in this collection from Isabel Leonard and guitarist Sharon Isbin.