The discussions on the voice type of Dyer-Bennet should consider the period after he started studying with Cornelius Reid. His work with Reid strengthened his chest register, making his voice bigger and increasing his range. He also practiced speaking using more of his chest register. I believe the only recording he made with this different voice is his The Lovely Milleress. (Where can this be obtained? Is this on CD now?) His new voice can probably also be heard on the Odyssey Tapes. (I have never watched the Odyssey tapes but I watched his first performance of Odysseus Returns Home at SUNY Stony Brook.) By the way, he was a bit impatient with attempts to categorize his voice(which was sometimes described as "effeminate"). He preferred his credits to read: Richard Dyer-Bennet, voice (similar to: Nancy Garniez, piano). Somewhere in the discography above he is described simply as: Richard Dyer-Bennet, singer. He chose to rework his voice not because he wanted to change from being a countertenor or lyric tenor to any other vocal category, but because he felt he could not give justice to his songs unless he had full use of his voice (what Reid called "full-throated singing").