A tempting selection on this morning's Record Review for the 22CD boxset marking the 50th anniversary of the NY Metropolitan at the Lincoln Centre, despite the reviewer, Flora Willson's excessive use the the 'fantastic' cliche throughout! 
The sound quality is variable but quickly discounted by the aural riches; Scotto, Gobbi. Caballe - was it her who floated the exquisite note at the closing of Desdemona's Willow Song? even the instant applauders were 'shushed' by the audience -Berganza, Nilsson, Vickers, Sutherland, Freni,
Rysanek and Ludwig in Die Frau ohne Schatten with Bohm, 'a must' and I'm also eager to hear Evelyn Lear and Marie Collier of blessed memory in Mourning Becomes Electra - quite new to me as an opera.
A bargain price of £100 was quoted but, checking with the river people, £87 76 is the current quote but this can rise without notice as we know. I have a cunning plan...
The sound quality is variable but quickly discounted by the aural riches; Scotto, Gobbi. Caballe - was it her who floated the exquisite note at the closing of Desdemona's Willow Song? even the instant applauders were 'shushed' by the audience -Berganza, Nilsson, Vickers, Sutherland, Freni,
Rysanek and Ludwig in Die Frau ohne Schatten with Bohm, 'a must' and I'm also eager to hear Evelyn Lear and Marie Collier of blessed memory in Mourning Becomes Electra - quite new to me as an opera.
A bargain price of £100 was quoted but, checking with the river people, £87 76 is the current quote but this can rise without notice as we know. I have a cunning plan...
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