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Free Music Notes for Romantic AriasFree Music Review: Greatest tenor in 30 years (since Pavarotti) Hit: 5 Stars
I am writing this to support the rave reviews others have given this recital album as well as to express astonishment on the others who heavily criticized the disk. I have heard Kaufmann once live earlier this year at the Met. I must admit that he is the finest male voice (and actor) I have heard in 30 years--and that included some very fine singers. Only a few like M. Alvarez, Hampson, Terfel are really in his league. He may lack that Italianate squillo but he has the Germanic version of that wonderful Vickers "ping." He seemed very comortable in all the languanges and genres on this album. Ironically he seemed no more comfortable in German that in Italian or French. And I don't consider that criticism.
Free Music Review: I AM IN LOVE Hit: 5 Stars
I have been a huge fan of operatic tenors for nearly all of 75 years. I own numerous recordings of the great operatic recordings from "live from the Met" which I started listening to when I was about 12 or 14 years. Carreras and Domingo have been my favorite for years. I was looking thru "operatic tenors" on Amazon music when I listened to the recording of Jonas Kaufmann and I am as smitten as I was when I was a romantic teen. What a wonderful voice!!! Would love to hear him record some of "Phantom of the Opera" music, some of the Mario Lanza songs like "This Is My Beloved". Besides having a great, wonderful voice, he is pretty neat to look at also.
Free Music Review: This tenor is the real deal. Hit: 5 Stars
Never mind what the "Grammphone" said in its excerpt for this album. The first track from "La Boheme" is very neatly done,and the rest of the tracks all offer 'better than most' performances.
The middle register is very full and powerful. The upper register sounds like laser. Wonderful intonation, immaculate articulation.
Musicality of the top caliber - never sings nonsense, but with full commitment to each aria's differing requirements.
This is a top-notch artist, blessed with a wonderful voice.
Miss this, and you will regret.
Free Music Review: Romantic Arias by Jonas Kaufman Hit: 5 Stars
CD of Operatic Arias sung by Jonas Kaufman
Fantastisch, wunderbar...I love it. Mr. Kaufman has a wonderful, rich, voice, he shades it and uses it to bring out the wonder of the arias. At times it is robust, then soave, dolce and, of course, romantic! I particularly liked the fact that he did not use the same old arias every tenor trots out on a medley of typical "favorites" i.e La Donne e Mobile.
He is quite "dishy" as well! I look forward to more of Jonas Kaufman's work.
Free Music Review: A Great New Tenor Voice Hit: 5 Stars
This CD offers arias very familiar to the opera lover, but it is worthwhile because Jonas Kaufmann is a fresh, vibrant tenor voice, equally competent in opera as in the Lieder repertoire. Excellent quality, beautiful diction
and stylistic interpretation. It is a fine selection of arias in French, Italian, and German from the 19th Century Repertoire. I recommend it highly.
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