The Spanish Masters – CD Reviews
“Classical Contemporaries Perform With A Ghost'”
// NPR Weekend Edition December 10, 2011 (includes VIDEO)

“Zuill Bailey & Isabel Bayrakdarian talk about The Spanish Masters album from Zenph”
// YouTube December 9, 2011 (VIDEO)

“Groundbreaking Technology Breathes New Life into Century-Old Recordings with 'The Spanish Masters'”
// JResearch Triangle, North Carolina (PRWEB) October 25, 2011

Gomidas Songs – CD Reviews
“Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian sings with soaring passion…”
// Julie Amacher, Minnesota Public Radio, November 4, 2008

“She's a soprano prized for the flexible color of her voice as well as for the dramatic urgency she brings to operatic roles.”
// David Weininger, The Boston Globe, October 17, 2008

“A charming artist with a warm, gleaming voice…Bayrakdarian sounds utterly authentic in these piquant, touching songs.”
// Bradley Bambarger, NJ.com, October 6, 2008

“Bayrakdarian’s pure, unaffected singing makes a straightforward and moving connection with these classical evocations of folk-derived music. Her utter naturalness is reminiscent of recordings by the late Netania Davrath—in this repertory, that’s the highest possible compliment.”
// David Shengold, Time Out New York, October 2008

Tango Notturno – CD Review
“She sings luxuriantly and passionately, with a richly pulsing mezzo quality in her lower and middle registers and a ringing fullness on top. She also responds with unforced, idiomatic vocal colorings to the demands of the texts and melodies. Her range — dynamic, timbral and dramatic — is impressive at every turn, as is her command of the six languages represented here.”
// Joshua Roseblum, Opera News, September 2008

Pauline Viardot-Garcia – CD Reviews
“Bayrakdarian is a singer who can unfold a text with great musical artistry.”
// Bill Rankin, Edmonton Journal, February 13, 2005

“Her voice has a brilliance and a lightness that don’t prevent it from descending to darker nether regions or swelling to near-operatic fortes. She genuinely engages with what she is singing, and there is a hint of a laugh in her voice that lifts the music with an infectious lilt.
// Anne Midgette, New York Times, February 6, 2005

“With a voice as pure and limpid as spring water, Bayrakdarian makes an irresistible case for Viardot Garcia’s beguilingly melodic songs.”
Marion Lignana Roseberg, Time Out New York, January 2005