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FRONT PAGE	GRAMMY '00 '01 '02 '03 '04	SOUNDTRACKS: Classical Music goes to the Movies	A NEW BREED OF CROSSOVERS	HIGH AND LOW VOICES	A LITTLE WORLD MUSIC	CDs FROM THE RECENT PAST

NIGHT SONGS: Renee Fleming and Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Uni/Decca - #467697

A wonderful first collaboration between France's "exciting pianist" and America's "beautiful voice": Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Renee Fleming make exceptionally beautiful music while celebrating the mysteries of the night with songs by Gabriel Faure, Claude Debussy, Joseph Marx, Richard Strauss and Sergei Rachmaninov. Fleming and Thibaudet performed the songs in this album on a recital tour of the US in April 2001, and will do so again in the Fall. A European Recital Tour follows in January. For Schedule, click on either artist's calendar below.

There's more on Thibaudet on FanFaire.

		Thibaudet's Performance Calendar		Fleming's Performance Calendar / Discography
BUY CD		Clip from "Nocturne" by Joseph Marx (track 12)		Clip from "In the Silence of Mysterious Night" by S. Rachmaninov (track 22), in Russian

Gluck: IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE with Christine Goerke, Rodney Gilfry, Vinson Cole, Stephen Salters, Sharon Baker, Jayne West and the Boston Baroque - Martin Pearlman, Director / Telarc - #80456

Another outstanding premiere recording on period instruments by the Boston Baroque Orchestra featuring some of America's finest young singers in the lead roles. In the title role is Christine Goerke who was a sensation as Iphigénie in the Glimmerglass production of the opera. The short clip from Iphigenie's first aria is reason enough to buy the CD and listen to the whole work - what you'll hear is an impeccable soprano voice that explains why Christine Goerke is a consistent prize winner. And there's another good reason - Rodney Gilfry's warm, expressive baritone which is heard in the second clip.

Christine Goerke elsewhere on FanFaire.

BUY CD

Clip from the aria "O toi, qui prolongeas mes jours" (track 4)

Clip from the aria "Dieux! qui me poursuivez" (track 14)

THE ART OF THE DRAMATIC SOPRANO: Dolora Zajick
with Charles Rosekrans and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Telarc - #80557

Dolora Zajick's first solo CD
Listen to her sing some of the great arias of the repertoire - by Rossini, Saint-Saens, Verdi, and more - and you'll agree that here is a living definition of a dramatic mezzo-soprano voice. Powerful, wide-ranging, and daring - indeed even unafraid on occasion to scale the heights of soprano territory! And the voice rises to the occasion with great ease and beauty of sound.

BUY CD

Clip from "O don fatale" - aria from Don Carlo, by Giuseppe Verdi (track 7)

FRONT PAGE

GRAMMY '00
'01 '02 '03 '04

SOUNDTRACKS: Classical Music goes to the Movies

A NEW BREED OF CROSSOVERS

HIGH AND LOW VOICES

A LITTLE WORLD MUSIC

CDs FROM THE RECENT PAST

New Releases