I Could Call You Up

I Could Call You Up

Soprano Melanie Mitrano’s new CD of recent American art songs benefits from her impeccable diction, direct collaboration with most of the composers who serve as her piano accompanists here, and smart microphone placement in the recording studio that puts the voice front and center as it should be but normally only happens on pop records.… Read more »

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Soprano Melanie Mitrano’s new CD of recent American art songs benefits from her impeccable diction, direct collaboration with most of the composers who serve as her piano accompanists here, and smart microphone placement in the recording studio that puts the voice front and center as it should be but normally only happens on pop records. The result shows there is not a whole lot of difference between the great standards by Broadway composers and art songs by so-called classical composers including 2004 Pulitzer-winner Paul Moravec. Should there be?

—FJO