Leontyne Price - a podcast by Adriaan Fuchs

A podcast on soprano Leontyne Price (b. 1927), regarded as one of the outstanding lyric-dramatic sopranos of her generation, or indeed of the Twentieth Century. Many critics have argued that she posessed perhaps the most sumptously beautiful soprano voice of the recording era and Price herself famously declared that she adored the sound of her own voice. This self-assessment, which if uttered by any other singer might have smacked of arrogance, was endorsed by critics, conductors and audiences worldwide. The esteemed critic John Steane wrote of Price that "one might conclude from recordings that she is the best interpreter of Verdi of the century," while Placido Domingo, wrote in his 1983 autobiography how the “power and sensuousness of her voice was phenomenal - the most beautiful Verdi soprano I have ever heard." Even Herbert von Karajan admitted that when he heard Price’s voice for the first time, it gave him goose pimples. Presented by Adriaan Fuchs. For more information, please visit www.onandofftherecord.com

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