I suppose some consider her a lightweight, but there is something so clean
and human in Arlene Auger's voice . . . in He Shall Feed His Sheep from
Messiah (Trevor Pinnock, et al), or her Schubert disc on Hyperion.  Such
pure, resonant tone . . . why is it that some singers seem to think that
orbiting (in an ellipse) the note is preferable to actually landing on it?

Jim Saunders