Sallie Chisum Remembers Billy the Kid: Songs by Copland, Barber, Previn & Argento
Though American, Barbara Bonney has spent most of her career in Europe and, up until  recently, never saw the need to sing in English. But this collection is entirely in English, featuring the title  piece written for her by Previn--sort of a tone poem for voice, nice but not great--plus Samuel Barber's  more familiarHermit Songs, Dominick Argento'sSix Elizabethan Songsand Aaron  Copland'sTwelve Poems of Emily Dickinson. It's one of her best recordings and a big step in the  gradual evolution of an artist who began as another pretty-voiced soprano and is becoming one of the most  memorable recitalists of her generation.--David Patrick Stearns