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Title: Truly wonderful!
Review: A wonderful disc! Susan Graham is quickly developing into the kind of powerhouse artist that one can't get enough of. The Mozart aria's, though hardly novelties, are sung with the kind of inflection, fiery passion and delicacy required to make them truly work. Her "O Malheureuse Iphiginie" is alone worth the price of the CD. I had to hear it five times consecutively to make sure that what I was hearing was, in fact, as great as I thought it was. I will admit, I would have preferred if the release would have been an all Gluck (or maybe Gluck/Hasse) affair, but one can't really quibble about such minor things when the end result is as terrific as "Il Tenero Momento." Harry Bicket is a terrific young conductor, whom I've had the pleasure of hearing conduct on two occasions here in Miami. I can only dream about what Ms. Graham would do with the role of Ottavia in "Coronation of Poppea." Her "Disprezzata Regina" and "Addio, Roma" would, no doubt, send chills down my spine.
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