“Armenian tenor Arsen Soghomonyan caused a stir earlier this year with a much-admired Met debut as Hermann in The Queen of Spades, taking the role over at short notice when Brandon Jovanovich withdrew from the production. ‘Bridges of Voice and Soul’ is his first solo album… it is unquestionably fine. …a big, wide-ranging, dramatic voice… the lines are clean and the emotions finely projected.… He’s beautifully supported, meanwhile, by Constantine Orbelian and his Kaunas orchestra, finely alert to stylistic and emotional shifts, and playing with great textural clarity.” —Tim Ashley, Gramophone
