Copland - Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? (No. 3 from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson)

[‘Why do they shut me out of heaven?’] is a good example of Fontanals-Simmons’s tendency to prioritise solidity of vocal production and excellent diction over flashy point-making and expressive... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

the mezzo-soprano on excellent form in a fascinating programme … Katz is a consistently birlliant accompanist and the programme is as absorbing as it is enterprising. Nobody who admires this... — International Record Review, December 2012 More…