Track Listing

1. The Fairy Queen: Come All Ye Songsters
2. Oedipus: Music For A While
3. Pausanias: Sweeter Than Roses
4. Joshua: O Had I Jubal's Lyre
5. Bei der Wiege Op. 47 No. 6
6. Neue Liebe Op. 19a No. 4
7. Schlagende Herzen Op. 29 No. 2
8. Ich wollt' ein Strausslein binden Op. 68 No. 2
9. Sausle, liebe Myrte Op. 69 No. 3
10. Ridente la calma K. 152 (210a)
11. Das Veilchen K. 476
12. Un moto di gioia K. 579
13. Mandoline Op. 58 No. 1
14. Les Roses d'Ispahan Op. 39 No. 4
15. En Priere
16. Notre amour Op. 23 No. 2
17. Honor, Honor
18. His Name So Sweet
19. Witness
20. He's Got The Whole World In His Hand

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41933 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

From Amazon.com
After years of being one of the foremost singers of light lyrics, Kathleen Battle, searching for challenging new musical expression, tackles the dramatic Mozart repertory. Blessed with one of our generation's prettiest soubrette voices, Battle breezes through the technical challenges of the Countess and Constanze, but sounds like a little girl trying on Mommy's shoes. She lacks the vocal variety and depth to successfully bring these pieces to life. Her renditions of the soubrette repertory, especially "Ruhe sanft," are Mozartfully graceful. In the Magic Flute excerpts she demonstrates that merely singing Mozart's written notes is enough to bring its beauty to life; practically all necessary expression is written into the musical lines. -- Barbara Eisner Bayer