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| Questo Dolce Tormento, Lufthansa Baroque Festival, St John's Smith Square, London |
| "This is a specialised field, but it is one that the soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr has made her own and opened up to a wider public. Hers is an ideally pure voice, full, focused and intensified by rich mezzo-soprano qualities. Her approach is at once simple and subtle, echoing the composers' aims of matching vocal inflection to the nuances of the text in music that can be highly sophisticated in expression. This can extend from imitating different shades of the nightingale's song in D'India's Canto di rosignolo, to finding the heart of Dido's human grief in his Infelice Didone, but Kiehr has the sensibility and technical scope to embrace the music's range and intricacy of line, coupled with the imagination to bring it vividly alive." |
| The Daily Telegraph - 17 June 2003 |
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| The Secret Lover, concerts with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra |
| "Maria Cristina Kiehr has a smooth voice of bird-like clarity and agility. The closing couplet of … Su la cetra amorosa by the 17th-century composer Tarquino Merula "For I would rival the most songful birds, so sweetly I would sing" said it all. The harmony was embroidered by Kiehr with such finely judged colour and contrast, responsiveness to text and spirited emphasis that the melodic part came alive with a sense of improvised delight." |
| Sydney Morning Herald - February 2003 |
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