Verdi Leider

Product Description

For Giuseppe Verdi the song had about the same significance that the sketch has for the painter. It gave him the opportunity to sketch emotions and characters in a smaller, more improvised form, genre pictures of passions and destinies he otherwise placed in the wide space of the stage. Hence, his songs are, as it were, the forerunners of his theatre music, they also possess the clout of characterization, the magnificent objectivity of portrayal we admire in the opera arias. (W. Oehlmann)

Review

"The songs on this impressive disc are an excellent fit to showcase Vargas's honeyed tenor. He navigates each selection with ease, never showing any signs of strain, and caresses each phrase as if he owned it." --Opera News, November 2014