Beverly Sills CD

Beverly Sills Music

Label	Sony Music
Orig Year	11/24/1998
All Time Sales Rank	2893
CD Universe Part number	1239263
Discs	1
Release Date	Nov 24, 1998
Recording Time	48 minutes

Beverly Sills Classical Review

Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars) 4 stars

4 stars Beverky Sills "Plaisir D'amour"
Overall a good CD to buy. I liked her rendition of Spanish songs, esp. "Estrellita" and "La morena de mi copla" (first releases) and Liszt' "Quand je dors" and Bizet's "Ouevre ton coeur" but I thought she dragged out and dragged down "Les Filles de Cadiz" and "Les chemins d'amour" to the point where they lost their up beat (both are in 3/4 time), as also in "Ims Chambres Separee" and "Viljia-Lied" in another CD (also 3/4 time) that I also bought. Victoria de los Angeles does "Les Filles de Cadiz" incomparably (EMI "On Wings of Song.") Jessye Norman sings "Les Chemins de l'amour" like no one else (Phillips "Jessye Norman Classics.") Sills has a clear and girlish voice and her French is excellent, a memorable soprano otherwise.
Submitted by SaffronHNL (Honolulu, Hawaii and Seattle, Washington)
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