Kate Royal
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Music CD Cover Composer: Leo Delibes Composer: Richard Strauss Composer: Igor Stravinsky Conductor: Edward Gardner Orchestra: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Performer: Kate Royal Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) CD Release Date: 2007-09-18 Music Label: EMI Classics Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Kate Royal Album
Free Music Review: Promising Young Soprano
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a nice first recital album. Kate Royal demonstrates promise, but--as others reviewers note--she needs to grow. She displays a rich, lush lyric soprano voice. However, at this point in her career, she is not fully polished, nor have her skills fully matured. For instance, she tries to trill at a number of points, and while the final effect is not bad, it still has measurable room for improvement. I commend her for her variety of selections here, taking on works that are not common on debut CDs. A couple illustrative cuts:
Debussy's "L'annee en vain chasse l'annee" is richly sung, well illustrating the lush voice that she has. She sings this with apparently considerable confidence.
"Les filles de Cadix" is a playful tune by Leo Delibes. She sings it well, although she appears to be a bit "raw." She displays a semblance of a trill here and there--good enough to be promising, not so good as to identify her with the coloratura sopranos for whom this is well accomplished (such as Sumi Jo or Joan Sutherland). Nonetheless, a nice performance.
From Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana," she sings "In Trutina." Again, this is smoothly sung, exemplifying her rich lyric soprano vocal quality.
So, as others note, she has considerable promise and needs to work to develop her talent and technique to move to the next level of accomplishment.