Discoveries of 2021 (2): The angel ascends
Album Of The WeekThe Canadian mezzo Emily D’Angelo made her debut recording with all-new music on Deutsche Grammophon.
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She has an amazing voice. But she has already been discovered — she was a Lincoln Center “Emerging Artist” in 2020, and already had a Bernstein Award, among others. And a pretty healthy performance career well under way — including a number of recordings, although this is the first solo one. (BTW, you have the name of the album wrong in the linked review: it is Enargeia).
I like her voice. I’m not sure I like where the album brings me, but at least it does bring me somewhere.
Yannick, Pieczonka, Radvanovsky, Ehnes, Lisiecki, Goodyear, Lortie, Charles Richard Hamelin, Marc Andre Hamelin, Wallis Giunta and, now, Emily D’Angelo and Bruce Liu… the Canadian take over of classical music is real.
Gerard Finley and Angela Hewitt have been around for a while.
Poor provincial Canada…
Don Ciccio deserves a visit from Vito Andolini (Corleone).
I do keep my enemies closer, you know…
(OK, Michael said that)
Mervon… How about Janina Fialkowska too
And John MacMaster, come to think of it. There are quite a few other Canadians, perhaps not quite as celebrated but in regular work in Europe, the Americas and Australia.