Review Highlights

Julianne Baird:  Glorious Handel


"...such sensitivity that one never feels anything less than the quality of meaning of what she sings. Her admirers would naturally be drawn to this disc automatically. " 
American Record Guide (January/February 2000)
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"Julianne Baird is a soprano widely recognized both for her mastery of early music style and for her vocal gifts of tonal beauty and near-flawless technique." 
Fanfare (January/February 2000)
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"...Baird as a singing actress is able to make Handel's characters dramatically real and humanly irresistable... singer, conductor, and orchestra all rise superbly to the challenge of the final selection, the air 'Convey me to some peaceful shore' from the death scene in Alexander Balus, where their collaborative pianissimo is at once rivetingly intense as music and overwhelming as sheer tragic expression.'"

Fanfare (January/February 2000)
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