Search - Gabriel Faure, Claude Debussy, Ryan Edwards :: Phyllis Curtin sings Fauré and Debussy

Fantastic singer, marvellous human being

12/20/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Phyllis Curtin's warmth, wit and beauty are strikingly evident in every note she sings. She's an underrated treasure in the United States -- an American soprano with equal parts of soul and panache. No other recording she's released has shown her to such great advantage, not even her historic recording of Floyd's 'Susannah' ... she's totally at home in the French art song repertoire, it's beautifully suited to her voice, the language is impeccable, and joie de vivre bubbles irrepressibly from every track. She completely inhabits Faure's elusive earth-goddess Eve, and the Verlaine settings are as crystalline a set of miniatures as anyone could wish. Ryan Edwards is wonderful as well. I heartily recommend not only this CD, but anything else with Curtin's name on the jacket."