 | Ruth Ann Swenson - Positively Golden ~ Colaratura Arias by Gaetano Donizetti
Buy used from: $0.66 Dazzling coloratura and warm, lyrical singing. The rarely performed "Adieu, mon doux rivage" is especially beautiful. Swenson is luminous.
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 | Amore Per Rossini by Jennifer Larmore
Buy used from: $2.95 A wonderful Rossini recital. Larmore's voice is richly textured and her interpretations are first rate.
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 | White Moon: Songs to Morpheus
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $1.73 An unusual recording with a theme--songs having to do with nightime and sleep. "Gentle Morpheus" is a gem of an aria.
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 | Renée Fleming - Signatures ~ Great Opera Scenes / Sir Georg Solti
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $2.50 One of Fleming's loveliest recordings. There is a simplicity and a sincerity in her approach on this disc that will captivate you immediately.
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 | Anne Sofie von Otter - The Artist's Album by Gustav Mahler
Buy used from: $14.94 A "best of" CD of one of our greatest contemporary mezzos. From Mozart to Kurt Weil, von Otter makes every idiom her own. A must have!
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 | Christine Schäfer - Mozart Arias & Strauss Orchestral Songs / Pires - Berlin Phil. · Abbado by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Buy used from: $4.95 Impeccably sung Mozart/ Strauss recital. Schafer has a clear, limpid voice. Perfect for Mozart and radiant on the Strauss selections.
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 | Véronique Gens - Mozart Opera and Concert Arias
Buy used from: $5.94 An exciting CD from French soprano Veronique Gens. One of the most thrilling "Come scoglio" renditions I've ever heard.
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 | Twilight and Innocence
Buy used from: $2.30 A lovely collection from a lovely soprano. Grant Murphy is radiant.
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 | Natalie Dessay - French Opera Arias by Ambroise Thomas
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.98 Amazing coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay will knock your socks off. Wonderful flexibility and high notes that won't quit.
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 | Wild Rose
Buy used from: $3.94 German lieder sung by Karita Mattila. Exciting and interesting interpretations of "An die Musik" and "Auf dem Wasser zu zingen" among others.
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 | Susan Graham - La Belle Époque (The Songs of Reynaldo Hahn) by Reynaldo Hahn
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.00 Sumptuous, decadent....beautiful. A highly nuanced, graceful performance by the American mezzo. Hahn's "perfumed" melodies are perfect for her.
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 | Cecilia Bartoli - If You Love Me (Se tu m'ami ), 18th-Century Italian Songs by Alessandro Scarlatti
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.95 One of Bartoli's best recordings. Italian love songs. Magical.
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 | Barbara Bonney - Diamonds in the Snow (Nordic Songs) / Pappano
Buy used from: $10.98 A collection of Scandinavian art songs. Ravishing. Bonney is spectacular.
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 | Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, Ruckert-Lieder / Meier, Maazel by Lorin Maazel
Buy used from: $5.99 Mahler's heartbreaking cycle "On the Death of Children" is beautifully portrayed by dramatic mezzo, Waltraud Meier.
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 | Angela Gheorghiu - Arias by Giuseppe Verdi
Buy used from: $2.99 Gheorghiu's debut recital disc. The lyric soprano is a lovely Mimi. Rich voice with a warm middle and floaty top notes.
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