“A performance which mixes sumptuousness and refinement with impeccable poise and style…Watts is as authoritative and compelling a Bach soprano as you will find anywhere today.” – International Record Review
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“[She] immediately makes plain why she is one of today’s most talked about young sopranos. Her beautiful, honey-toned voice, perfect intonation and innate understanding of this repertoire make this a stand-out CD.” – Stephen Pritchard, The Observer.
“Elizabeth Watts sings gloriously, rising fluently to the high tessitura of Strauss’s melodic lines… Her beautiful voice, sensitive phrasing and response to word-meanings are consistently rewarding.” – Ivan March, Gramaphone.
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…the more brilliant tone of Elizabeth Watts combines with her more vivid treatment of the words (try her first aria Fly, soft ideas) and the more forward recorded sound to make a stronger impression…Watts’s triumphant upper notes, while the ruthless virtuousity of her Monster away! carries all before it.
John Steane, Gramophone, April 2011
More critical praise for Elizabeth:
Elizabeth Watts outshone them both with her outstandingly communicative Tigrane, singing with bright conviction and conveying every emotional twist and turn with vivid clarity…showed how the repetitions in Handel’s arias can be made to feel dramatically essential.
Hugo Shirley, The Telegraph, 11 February, 2013
…the audience loved her for her gleaming singing as much as for her levity.
Erica Jeal, The Guardian, 11 February, 2013
With David Daniels, Luca Pisaroni and Elizabeth Watts in leading roles, it’s hard to imagine a better cast for Handel’s drama.
Rupert Christiansen,The Telegraph, 9 February, 2013
Brahms German Requiem
“This… was big, slow and overwhelming. The choral singing was wonderfully intense, and soloists Elizabeth Watts and Stéphane Degout were both outstanding. The long silence at its close, which no one dared to fracture with applause, was testament to its impact. ”
– Tim Ashley, The Guardian
“a performance which mixes sumptuousness and refinement with impeccable poise and style… Watts is as authoritative and compelling a Bach soprano as you will find anywhere today… A most rewarding and satisfying disc in which an excellent band of players under a superb director are crowned by a voice of real magic.”
Marc Rochester, International Record Review, February 2011
“The Soldier tir’d… is resplendently delivered by Elizabeth Watts.”
George Hall, BBC Music Magazine
Elizabeth has won a prestigious 2011 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. The Trust aims to help outstanding young musicians develop and sustain international careers with awards that fund tailor-made projects.
