About this title: With her polished and winning 2001 collection of Bach and Handel arias, contralto Stephanie Blythe proved that she could run with the best of the countertenors. Her follow-up effort, again with conductor John Nelson and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, leaves her lighter-voiced colleagues behind, diving into the rich late-romantic works of Brahms, Wagner, and Mahler. The album also offers a lot for the musically curious, since the Wagner and Mahler selections are presented in unusual, but effective, instrumental arrangements by Hans Werner Henze and Arnold Schoenberg, respectively. Why, you ...
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