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And I Remain: Three Love Stories

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As a commercial airline pilot who spends too much time in the back of the airplane commuting to and from work, I really enjoyed Linda and John's selection of music. Great way to wind down and relax during my lenghty commutes to and from work.

"And I Remain" is a gorgeous mix of lute songs and solo lute works by two people who've gained a HUGE reputation in Seattle over the last couple of years for their live concerts. Linda Tsatsanis is early music's next great soprano, and John Lenti is as tasteful and articulate a lutenist as you'd ever hope to find.

The three nations/languages/temperaments presents in this collection give a wonderful range to the performance, and shift the mood just enough to give it both unity and a dramatic arc.

Tsatsanis's voice is miraculous, immediately appealing and still magnetic over repeated listenings. She somehow manages to create power and expression in these dramatic songs without overpowering the soft-voiced beauty of the lute and theorbo.

Those of us in Seattle who've been able to follow their concert appearances over the last couple of years are overjoyed and relieved that they've heeded our demands and finally made a record. Now everyone with a CD player can hear what we've been raving about.

Big props to the recording engineer and technical staff with Origin Classical records for doing such a world-class job on the sound, the look, the whole production.

With the release of this recording, the voice of Linda Tsatsanis is now a documented treasure! Solid scholarship and authentic performance practice lays the foundation; polished musicianship, infused with lyricism and passion, catapult the listener to an elevated consciousness.

This performance transverses the constraints of time and evokes the eloquence of these chosen resurrected relics. The beauty of the vocal sound, poetic creativity and interpretation is unsurpassed.

Imaginative, skillful and sensitive realization by John Lenti supports these artistic insights and his solo contributions fulfill the dreams of early music aficionados.

Diane and Charles Whittaker