Composers: Barber, Heggie, Floyd, Copland, Getty 
Compositions: American songs
Performers: Melody Moore s, Bradley Moore p
Catalogue Number: Pentatone PTC5186770

Anyone who heard 2017’s Otello on Pentatone with a luminous Melody Moore as Desdemona will have been waiting impatiently for the American soprano’s debut solo album. Now she delivers – and how – with an all-American program that shows off a voice of startling beauty and power. Moore’s lirico-spinto soprano spreads thick as clotted cream. Pianissimos and fortissimo climaxes are all cushioned on this seemingly bottomless pillow of sound, which overflows generously into the ear. But it’s the blade...