Danielle de Niese is the star of the hour, as she delivers a perfectly tailored program of Arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. De Niese “has a voice made for Mozart: bright, beautiful, agile and creamy” and “combines the best characteristics of Kiri Te Kanawa and Kathleen Battle” on this album captivating you with her “dramatic, agile voice and heaps of charm and charisma”.
After an “astronomic rise to prominence in the last twentieth century”, Danielle de Niese makes her stunning solo recording debut on Decca Records performing an impressive line-up of Handel Arias with William Christie. The New York Times gave it critical acclaim, saying de Niese has “a voice seductive enough to woo gods as well as mortals.”
“Suffused with more personality and verve than five other Baroque recitals combined”, rising opera sensation Danielle de Niese is back with Beauty of the Baroque, a revelation in the way the star soprano “newly illumines familiar as well as less-known Baroque classics”— a treasure chest of baroque gems showing the “popular soprano at her best”.
Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra pay homage to former LSO President Leonard Bernstein with a new recording of Wonderful Town that captures the energy and excitement of sold-out performances from December 2017.
