Fatma Said soprano; Malcolm Martineau piano

Expression of poetic texts and the communication of the emotions they contain belong to Fatma Said’s insightful interpretations of German art song. ‘Differentiating between diverse kinds of expressive worlds is for me what lieder-singing is all about,’ she explains. ‘Her voice, with its distinctive fast vibrato, certainly makes some succulent sounds,’ observed The Times in its review of the enthralling Egyptian soprano’s recent Lieder album