Originally posted by Richard Tarleton
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"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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This is my favourite Italian opera and I have multiple versions, including the winner. Not heard the programme yet but I'm presuming my favourite version (Levine/Scotto/Domingo) doesn't get the palm because of Scotto's 'elderly, monochrome' voice. I like Baltsa quite a bit more than Scotto but I prefer Levine's unsentimental approach to the music - he really motors through it and it's all to the good.Comment
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She didn't cover the Levine recording at all which I assumed was because it was unavailable. However, it's certainly available on download - missed opportunity to identify a "record" on a non-CD format to justify the name change of CD Review!!Originally posted by Conchis View Post
Eitherway it's a strange ommission as the Levine has great atmosphere and a cracking performance from Scotto (the reviewer couldn't have objected to Scotto's sound on the basis that she highlighted that "Souliotis wasn't afraid to make an ugly sound" with her chest register.) Well, surely ugly sounds were Scotto's stock in trade.
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post
You were on fire on 8th January, ferney!! Giggle-water rather than milk on that third shredded wheat?
Gawd! I missed all this!
Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
J S Bach 1685-1750Comment
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