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Two star sopranos light up Mozart with Music of the Baroque

Lawerence A. Johnson, Chicago Classical Review:

“Indeed the singing of Kathryn Lewek and Susanna Phillips sealed this performances with vocalism of such a high order that it made one think one will never hear this music sung as well again. The two sopranos blended ingratiatingly in the “Domine Deus” and Phillips offered a sensitively sung “Laudamus Te.

Phillips’ refined, creamy soprano is eminently well suited to Mozart’s music, as she aptly displayed in this celebrated solo motet. She sang with refulgent tone and fine agility, handling the coloratura lines with ease. In the meditative “Tu virginum cornona” the soprano sang most sensitively, with evenly produced tone.”

Susanna McNatt