[5] In 1951 Ciannella was the soprano soloist in Haydn's Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo with the Interracial Fellowship Chorus (IFC) under conductor Harold Aks at Town Hall in Manhattan.

[7] That same year she was a featured soloist in a concert of Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine at Carnegie Hall with the Dessoff Choirs under conductor Paul Boeppl.

[8] In 1963 she was the soprano soloist in Handel's Messiah with The Masterwork Chorus and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall under conductor Thomas Dunn.

[14] Ciannella sang in 1967 the vocal part in a recording of Telemann's cantata Ino, with the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart conducted by Helmuth Rilling.

[17] Stanley Sadie commented in the Gramophone in January 1968: "Yvonne Ciannella on this new version isn't as sheerly beautiful a singer as Miss Janowitz, but her performance is a lot more colourful and dramatic.

I am surprised I have not heard of Miss Ciannella before – it's a musical voice, intelligently used, warm and soft in timbre for the most part but capable of firm attack and a good deal of dramatic colouring.