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...In this new recording, tenor Joshua Ellicott sings that scene with a probing inwardness....
...In the other motherless family, Burt Caesar makes a dignified and moving Gloucester, Ralph Davis a sardonic, capricious Edmund and Joshua James an excellent, poignant Edgar....
...Bell’s sound is sweet but small, whereas Muti plumbs deep into the orchestral fabric until its foundations start to shake....
...Her gloriously sung Mahler and Handel plumb great emotional depths and are complemented with songs by her husband Peter Lieberson. 2....
...Alice Coote comes to the rescue with a beautifully honed, velvety Sesto and Franco Fagioli’s spiteful Tolomeo plumbs the depths of a low-tessitura part with magical ease....
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