Emma Bell - Press

Handel Arias (Linn CKD 252)

A ravishing recital that heralds what promises to be a great career on disc.

Editor’s Choice
Edward Greenfield, Gramophone Magazine, December 2005

Emma Bell has the precious gift of creating a vivid, flesh-and-blood sound.

CD of the Week
Sunday Telegraph, September 2005

Distinctive and individual, Emma Bell’s soprano voice carries the blend of technical accomplishment and expressive richness required to exploit the musical and emotional variety of Handel’s music.

Music Week, 10 September 2005

Bell delivers expressive, grief-laden accounts, restraining her big voice with remarkable musical refinement…This is an enjoyable debut from an artist of immense potential.

The Sunday Times, 25 September 2005

First of two CDs on Linn: Strauss, Walter and Marx (Linn CKD238)

Bell combines delicacy with moments of unadulterated ecstasy.

The Scotsman, September 2004

The singing here is confident, beautiful, glowing, intelligent and deeply involving. The voice itself is capable of gossamer lightness or of riding the big moments with ease. In addition, her wise choice of un-hackneyed repertoire raises the level of interest in this disc even higher.

Fanfare, 31 January 2005