It is well sung, gorgeous to look at, and meticulous in its detail.
After the Walker Brothers split, he went solo, sang gorgeous, angsty songs, many by Jacques Brel, and enjoyed great success with a series of albums: Scott, Scott 2 and Scott 3. The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
And on "Strange Religion," Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin (both of whom survived Guns 'n' Roses) help Mr. Lanegan sing a gorgeous, half-disintegrated love song.
One of the opera's most inspired moments occurs when the truant Rose Ora hears her own voice delivering a recorded sermon on the radio and proceeds to sing a gorgeous duet with herself.
Three of their members Ebba Lovisa Andersson, Amanda Wikström and Petra Brohäll, casually sit around a kitchen table and sing a gorgeous, crystal clear a cappella version of Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend".
On a recent afternoon R. Kelly found himself onstage in a small Manhattan nightclub, singing a gorgeous, gentle version of the Sam Cooke classic "You Send Me".
But while she sings with gorgeous tone throughout, Borichevsky sounds effortful, straining in his upper registers, and coming a cropper, on opening night, on a climactic top C – nerves, one hopes.
One of my favorite recordings of all time, of any opera, is the live "Frau Ohne Schatten" from Vienna, which could set you weeping for the days when there was a James King around to sing the Emperor's gorgeous brainless music with the beauty it demands (not to mention a Rysanek to match him as a passionate Empress).
"My mother had a gorgeous singing voice," Mr. Cliburn said.
I found her singing to be gorgeous but the role something of an ill fit.
