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| | Reynaldo Hahn - Composer - Conductor - Singer and Accompanist [JW]: Classical CD Reviews- April 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Hahn, of course, was not a professional singer; he did appear at suitably elegant Parisian soirées but his recording career as a singer is quite out of proportion to any public career in the role though clearly not out of proportion to his contemporary musical celebrity. |
 | | Hahn on the other hand is utterly robust; he’s jaunty, not sexy, with the canal-lapping rhythms choppy and animated, the slither of a piano postlude at the end strong and decisive; no sensual crooning for Hahn, this is a hummed song recollected in strength not an invitation to love. |
 | | Hearing Hahn sing is a fascinating experience and hearing the tradition he came to embody, though himself not French born, is one that can, without exaggeration, be traced throughout the course of this splendid disc. |
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