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Clytemnestra

Rhian Samuel

Reviews (3)

BBC music magazine

2020 March

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Malcolm Hayes

2020 March

"Choral & song choice: Samuel's musical response is something of a tour de force - at once fiercely dramatic and always coherent ... Hughes rises to the challenge with bombproof technical strength and control, plenty of firepower when needed, and a thrilling instinct for capturing the persona of his fearsome anti-heroine. She gets impressive support from Jac van Steen and the orchestra, who have evidently rehearsed their demanding contribution up to the hilt".

The gramophone

2020 February

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Hugo Shirley

2020 February

"Samuel's musical language is accessible and powerful, with an appropriately craggy granitic strength to it ... Jac van Steen gets excellent, vivid playing from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales but it's Hughes's performance that carries the whole enterprise: vivid, powerful and superbly committed, bringing a real complexity and vulnerability to the character. She's impressive in the couplings, too, using her lightish soprano intelligently".

Opus

2020, nr. 95

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Carl-Henric Malmgren

2020, nr. 95

"This is my work and I claim it! - sjunger Ruby Hughes. Citatet passar både i Rhian Samuels musikdrama [Clytemnestra] och som beskrivning av inspelningen som helhet. Man är van att höra Ruby Hughes sjunga barockmusikk ... Här glänser hennes rena sopran i 1900-talets repertoar och man anar en än större rikedom i röstens färgpalett som ska bli spännande att följa".