Song Reviews
Geraldine McGreevy has one of the most lovely soprano voices of our younger generation, and in songs such as Silver, In the Highlands, Neglected moon!, The Rejected Lover, and Arrogant Poppies, she is ideal.
John Steane, Gramophone(Armstrong Gibbs Songs)
...the character of McGreevy's soprano .... is a character which ideally incarnates both the tenderness and the inwardness of so many of these songs..
BBC Music (Wolf Goethe Lieder, Hyperion recording)
Hyperion's exemplary devotion to the art of the German lied continues with this fine recording of those settings of texts by Goethe suitable for the female voice. McGreevy ..... is a refined singer. She opens with a sensual Ganymed, setting the tone for her consistent relish throughout of Wolf's chromatic harmonies and acute response to words..... In songs passionate and comic, savage and gentle, profound and lightweight, the pair give performances - and they seem like performances, not anodyne cuttings and pastings - that invariably hit the appropriate spot.
Stephen Pettitt, The Sunday Times
Clara Schumann's Sechs Lieder aus 'Jucunda' [are] sung radiantly by McGreevy.
Hilary Finch, BBC Music Magazine
McGreevy's Lachen und Weinen is simply the best performance I know. Her sharply deliniated characterization places the protagonist somewhere between Rossini's Italian girl and Wolf's.
Eric Van Tassel, International Record Review (Hyperion Schubert Edition Volume 35)
McGreevy's soprano provided equal joy. Wolf's setting of Die Spröde positively danced out of her larynx.
Geoff Brown, Times, November 1999 (International Songmakers at the Wigmore Hall)
She has a beautiful voice, packed with tonal variety which enables her to float a line weightlessly or deliver it with considerable dramatic impact...one of her strengths, clearly, is her command of characterisation....
Michael Tumelty, The Herald (BBC Recital, Glasgow)
Few are those actively interested in discovering how new performers cope with an exceptionally difficult score as, say, the song cycle Of Challenge and of Love by Elliott Carter and the answer is that soprano Geraldine McGreevy and pianist Chris Gould fare so astonishingly well that one starts to think of the piece as native to the repertoire. McGreevy has enviably limpid diction, phrases with obvious intelligence, and has a top that is bell-like without being fragile........McGreevy made them all [Nicholas Maw's Six Interiors] compelling.
Paul Driver, Sunday Times