Mulligan has a thrilling quality in his voice, an open-throated sound that's masculine, honest, and completely appealing; his is an exhilarating balance between constant beauty and toeing a risky edge. There's something accessible about his approach to the texts in Argento's songs; in Mulligan's voice they have an "all-American" quality, despite the texts' origins in Swedish explorers and English writers.
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American baritone Brian Mulligan has released his debut solo album on the Naxos label, lending his voice to the music of Dominick Argento. On the album are the composer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning From the Diary of Virginia Woolf (1974) and The Andrée Expedition (1980), which sets letters and diary entries written by the members of the tragic 1897 balloon expedition to the North Pole.
Mulligan has a thrilling quality in his voice, an open-throated sound that’s masculine, honest, and completely appealing; his is an exhilarating balance between constant beauty and toeing a risky edge. There’s something accessible about his approach to the texts in Argento’s songs; in Mulligan’s voice they have an “all-American” quality, despite the texts’ origins in Swedish explorers and English writers.
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