REVIEWS

BACH CANTATA #72 (Seiji Ozawa, conductor): “Bass Donald Wilkinson, familiar to Boston period music fans, raised the roof with his recitative ``So glaube nun!'' (``Then believe now!'') Wilkinson's German is superior, his tone unforced and strong. He sang with only continuo support, exuding an air of graceful manliness.”

BOSTON HERALD

FINZI “LET US GARLANDS BRING" (Five Shakespeare Songs): “Wilkinson was absolutely enthralling in all of the Shakespeare Songs... Absolutely flawless, compelling singing!”

VOX IN CAMERA (Saratoga Springs, NY) Peter Gerdine

EMMANUEL SCHUBERT SERIES: “Artistic Director Craig Smith paid tribute to baritone Donald Wilkinson, associated with Emmanuel Music for 17 years, by culling a group of seven songs on texts about birds...Wilkinson delivered them with sunny tones”

BOSTON GLOBE  5/9/01 Richard Dyer

BACH CANTATA #106 (Robert Spano, conductor): “Bass Donald Wilkinson sang sternly in the admonitory “Set thine house in order” with recorders fluttering all around him; his ecstatic singing of the chorale arioso: Today shalt thou be with me in paradise” took him into his increasing eloquent high voice, which radiated a joyous faith.”

BOSTON GLOBE 10/8/99 Susan Larson

DVORAK TE DEUM: “he [Donald Wilkinson] sang with warmth of sentiment and tone the ringing, wide-ranging baritone solos in Antonin Dvorak’s spirited and tuneful “Te Deum””

CAPE COD TIMES 4/19/99 Anna Crebo

ORFF CARMINA BURANA: “Always musically articulate and vocally very stisfying, baritone Donald Wilkinson sang the extended, dramatic arioso, “Estuans interius” with fervor tempered by superb control. Long phrases that soared well up into the tenor range were excecuted with seeming ease and fine feeling for the emotional import of both muisc and text.”

CAPE COD TIMES 3/8/93 Anna Crebo

BRUCKNER MASS IN F MINOR: “Donald Wilkinson demonstrated eveness of quality over a wide range, singing difficult high entries with calm confidence.”

BOSTON GLOBE 4/17/92 Richard Dyer

DEBUT RECITAL: “Wilkinson sings with admirably clear diction and firmness of tone, and he boasts a formidable command of clean, accurate coloratura.:

BOSTON GLOBE 10-23-91 Richard Dyer

BACH MASS IN B MINOR: “Et in Spriritum Sactum, a bass solo, was a lovely pastorale, smoothly delivered and well focused. Wilkinson found excellent support from the symphony’s English horn to deliver the aria as one of the highlights of the evening.”

THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE 8-15-90

MENDELSSOHN ELIJAH: “Baritone Donald Wilkinson gave the role a powerful presence. The Old Testament prophet issued forth dire warnings with clear diction. Wilkinson traversed the vocal landscape with a becoming mixture of intensity and lyricism.”

THE WORCESTER TELEGRAM 5-7-90

TIPPETT A CHILD OF OUR TIME: “...baritone Donald Wilkinson’s performance was eloquent.”

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION-NEWS 1-18-88

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