... has the true bass voice and the undoubted gift of the born communicator – he knew how to fix individual members of the audience with intense glances. Poulenc’s "La belle jeunesse" from Chansons Gaillardes was a spirited and meaningful delight, and the voice-type is perfect for Russian/Caucasian melancholy in Rachmaninov’s early Pushkin setting “Do not sing for me, o fair one, the sad songs of Georgia”.

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