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Streams in the Desert by Warshauer, Slovak Rso, and Trevor
Composer: Meira Warshauer
Conductor: Kirk Trevor
Performer: Jennifer Hines, Stephanie Gregory, Michael Hendrick & Carol Potter
Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Audio CD (November 1, 2007)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Albany Records
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Piazzolla: Maria De Buenos Aires
Composer: Astor Piazzolla
Conductor: Murry Sidlin
Performer: Jennifer Hines, Pepé Raphael
Orchestra: Cascade Festival of Music Chamber Orchestra
Audio CD (September 5, 2006)
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Koch Int'l Classics
Acclaim
"Brooding intensity is the recording's trump card. Jennifer Hines's astonishing low register as Maria, and Pepe Raphael's sombre but spirited interventions are all of a piece with the haunting orchestration." [MARIA DE BUENOS AIRES - Koch International Classics]
— Robert Maycock, BBC Magazine
"To my ears, this sounds like a performance of which Piazzola would have approved. It is gritty, sexy and similar in spirit to his own recordings. In the title role(s), the almost baritonal (!) Jennifer Hines sings like a glorious freak of nature.... I had trouble believing that she was ... not [from] the barrios of Buenos Aires. Her aria 'Yo soy Maria' might have you breaking a sweat." [MARIA DE BUENOS AIRES - Koch International Classics]
— Raymond Tuttle, Fanfare
- Piazzolla: Maria de Buenos Aires - "Yo Soy Maria" (exerpt; track 4; KOCH KIC7668) (1,059,109 bytes : MP3)
- Handel: Rodelinda - "Vivi, tiranno" (4,717,505 bytes : MP3)
- Bizet: Carmen - "Habanera" (4,951,164 bytes : MP3)
