Great Voice, Poor Balance
Joseph L. Ahern | Bell Gardens, CA USA | 08/19/2009
(2 out of 5 stars)
"Nina Rautio has a beautiful powerful voice. Her expression and style for these songs is wonderful. Unfortunately she is overbalanced, to my ears. If I want to hear the interaction with the piano, and turn up the volume a little, that's when she hits a high not and blows my ears off. I don't know if there is software to correct this problem. I would like to find it. Miss Rautio is a marvellous talent. Her "Joan" is full of glorious work. Sadly, this disc only serves for songs that either noone else sings or if they do then their versions are feeble. With the advent of the Naxos series, obviously that means maybe one or two songs have their best representation here."