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Real
Emotional Girl
The Reviewers Say:
"O'Callaghan is thrilling, perfect, achingly beautiful."
Critics are discovering Patricia's third recording:
The Record:
"We need people like O'Callaghan to keep the lost art of interpretation
alive, and Real Emotional Girl signals the arrival of a great singer
with generally impeccable taste in songwriters." - Michael Barclay
Toronto Free Press
"...classic cabaret songs in a program that is stunning, both emotionally
and in appreciation of her fine voice and interpretive talent."
- Bill Watt
Fans of Patricia's most recent CD say:
"Fantastic - very unique style... both soothing and haunting. Great
CD!" - TR, Toronto ON
"Great! Enchanting." - Ginty J, Guelph ON
"A great talent. Beautiful, elegant, sophisticated voice."
- Lorne S, Scarborough ON
"I just purchased "Real Emotional Girl" and I love it!!
In fact, I was so impressed I went out and bought 2 more copies
to give as Christmas gifts. Music this great should be shared."
- Sharon C
"Can't get enough of her singing!" - M & J, Halifax NS
"Ms. O'Callaghan is superb! Please do more recordings of her."
- Jane D, Ardrossan AB
"Beautiful voice, beautiful music, beautiful woman - Top marks!"
- Rudolf S, Fort Fraser BC
"Superb quality." - Terry W, Toronto ON
"Patricia has a pure and truly beautiful voice." - Q.G, Edmonton
AB
"Saw Patricia OCallaghan in concert - very impressed!"
- Janet B, Antigonish NS
"Patricia O'Callaghan - wonderful! Everyone who hears it, wants
one." - Donna B, Chelmsford ON
"I love her voice and am most impressed by her talent and versatility."
- June B, Halifax NS
Youkali
Critics love this cabaret recording:
Billboard Magazine:
"With youthful insouciance, Canadian chanteuse Patricia O'Callaghan
enlivens a set of cabaret and art songs by Satie, Poulenc, and Weill.
The selection is enlightened, as relative rarities like Weill's "Berlin
Lit Up" abut favorites like his wonderful "Youkali."
Satie's "Elegie" and Poulenc's "Queen Of Hearts"
are other high points, with pianist Jenny Crober an enviable partner
throughout. A thoroughly charming album."
Los Angeles Times:
From the great white Canadian north comes this warm, fetching set of
songs, traversing the serio-comic region where cabaret and art song
meet.
Soprano Patricia O'Callaghan brings an easy grace to works by Satie,
Poulenc, and Kurt Weill--who provides the album's existential shrug
of a title track. She brings special understanding and luminosity to
the four tart and quirky Satie compositions that open the album, to
Poulenc's rueful "Lune d'Avril," and to the alternately pointed
and saucy demands of singing Weill ... a celebration of songs from different,
but not unrelated, traditions, delicately balanced between the worlds
of art music and musical cocktails."
Now Magazine:
This eclectic program of cabaret and art songs by fast-rising Toronto
chanteuse Patricia O'Callaghan is a. delight. From playful songs by
Satie to Poulenc's delicate, surreal sound-pictures, from Piaf standards
to Weill's ironic, sensual melodies, O'Callaghan and pianist Jenny Crober
make this a winning disc, in no small part because of the singer's considerable
interpretive powers and her expressive, honey-sweet voice, sharpened
with a touch of ginger. - Jon Kaplan, April 2-8, 1998
Fans of Youkali say:
"Shes marvellous! The accompaniment is great."
- ME, Pierre Fonds QC
"Excellent!!!"
- H.K, Toronto ON
"Loved it."
- James A, Sudbury ON
"Superb - contains a selection of songs that are hard to find on
recordings."
- Angela N, Camrose AB
"Excellent."
- Barbara H, New Paltz NY
"Wonderful! Patricia OCallaghan is a singer of great range,
vocal purity and unique styling. I also have her
CD Slow Fox, and I play both CDs every day."
- Lorraine M, Arva ON
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