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Music : Rossini: Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra
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Rossini: Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra from: Opera D'oro |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0723723384423 Label: Opera D'oro Manufacturer: Opera D'oro Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Opera D'oro Release Date: October 20, 1998 Studio: Opera D'oro Sales Rank: 399971 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Great performance of a mediocre workGencer was a great soprano all right, but NOT of the 1930s and '40s as the previous reviewer stated...she made her debut in the early 1950s and sang until the early 1980s. Therefore the poor sound here is just the result of EXTREMELY bad miking! Rating:  - A Dream For Hardcore Fans Of 40's Diva Leyla GencerThe reviews which preceed my own have complained that the sound to this recording is in terrible condition and a nightmare. They express their dissatisfaction with the microphone placement. One has to remember that in the 30's and 40's (the World War II Era) both recorded Mono LP sounds and stage performances were primitive and not as dynamic as they sound today. Perhaps THERE WERE NO MICROPHONES the singers could use to enhance their voice. Leyla Gencer had to rely purely on her own natural voice and the orchestra, as crude as it was, had to work around her voice. Leyla Gencer was a Turkish soprano with an incredibly deep mezzo voice. Her voice was so deep and dark that it can come off as masculine and even menacing. Mezzo sopranos have thus ... Read More: Rating: - Bad sound! Great performance!As said before by another reviwer, the microphoning of the singers is completely wrong, what spoils this recording! The opera itself is interesting enough to deserve other (better) recordings. This performance seems to have been great (specially for Gencer and Grilli) unfortunately it is not very pleasant to listen to this cd. Rating: - Unbalanced microphone placement hurts a great operaThe music is wonderful, the voices very good, but the microphone placement is unbalanced. While there isn't any static or other background noise, the microphone is closer to the orchestra than to the singers, so to hear the singers well you have to have the music a bit too loud. Still a good buy at the price. |
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