“This splendid and authoritative recital by Elissa Edwards and Richard Kolb...[they] respond to the sheer pleasures of aching emotions, vague desires, delightful comedy and quick-moving, intense melodrama with playing of sheer physical beauty and close attention to the texts, whether Edwards’s pliant, seductive, free-ranging voice or Kolb’s virtuosity.”
Laurence Vittes, Gramophone
“Soprano Glistens in pieces by composer-singer Strozzi. Edwards...positively inhabits the drama of the text in a way Strozzi would certainly have enjoyed, while Richard Kolb accompanies with both sensitivity and gusto...It’s a wonderful recording that rewards both immediately and on repeat listening."
Karen Cook, Early Music America, EMA
“Elissa Edwards…has a powerful voice so that audience members clearly hear each word to every song and gives every piece an emotional pull. Edwards trills expertly giving great emotional power. Her timing is perfect, pausing briefly between each recitative and aria, allowing Maust to fill the space with the harpsichord’s music.”
Charles Green, DC Metro
“Soprano Elissa Edwards seems to be living the texts that she sings…'“
Ralph P. Locke, The Arts Fuse