New favorite CD

Renée Fleming has possibly the most exquisite voice on earth. Her CD Sacred Songs includes two Ave Marias, the Bach-Gounod and the Schubert, the beautiful Fauré Pie Jesu, gems by Handel Mozart, Berlioz, and others. Of particular joy for me, a dear friend of mine, Nicole Chevalier, sang at my ordination. The two songs she sang, Bernstein's A Simple Song and the Mozart Laudate Dominum, are both on this CD. Ah bliss!

As a side note, Nicole is developing quite a reputation in Germany, she is resident with the opera company at Freiburg and is beginning to perform in some of the larger houses. Someday I'll be able to say, "I knew her when..."