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Music : La Boheme
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La Boheme by: Puccini, De Los Angeles, Bjorling, Beecham Price: $26.00 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724356775329 Format: Limited Edition, Original recording remastered Label: EMI Classics Manufacturer: EMI Classics Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: EMI Classics Release Date: April 09, 2002 Studio: EMI Classics Sales Rank: 6454 MPN: 67753 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Every so often in the recording industry, there's a miracle, and this is one of them. This 1956 recording was organized quickly in New York, not on the heels of a stage performance and not even with a noted orchestra. All the right singers were in town at the same time--some popping in to sing a few bars before heading for the airport--and the result is the single greatest recording of this oft-recorded opera. The leads--Victoria de Los Angeles and Jussi Björling--would make it special in any case. But Robert Merrill is excellent and Lucine Amara is a light-voiced, French-sounding, ultra-stylish Musetta. This is also the only full-length Puccini recording by the great conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. A classic. --David Patrick Stearns Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - One of the two best recordingsIn a recent BBC3 "CD Review" broadcast, Alexandra Wilson made a gallant attempt to achieve the impossible task of choosing amongst forty or so recordings of "La Boheme" - and while I agreed with her ultimate choice of the Beecham recording with Bjorling, Merrill and De Los Angeles, I have rather more regard for the discarded Karajan recording simply because Pavarotti's voice, in its prime, as she herself put it, "runs through the recording like a golden seam". The rest of the cast is wonderful, too, although Karajan's love for the score is manifested in a rather deliberately "beautiful" approach and thereby slightly undercuts the drama. I cannot be without either recording of this eternally youthful and moving opera, and although Freni was captured ... Read More: Rating: - Great Recording!! This is truly one of the great recordings of La Bòheme... That said, I question the "Re-Mastered" claim on the page. For one thing, the CD case clearly states "MONO". And then there's that dreary sound quality...sounding a bit distorted on the top end... Nonetheless, it's such a brilliant rendition that one soon forgets the more technical aspect... Rating: - LO TROVO SCINTILLANTEAway with revisionist deviationism, say I. For most of my life Beecham's has been regarded as the Boheme to end all Bohemes, and I maintain resolutely that it still is that, for all the advances in recording techniques since 1956. The digital remastering dates from as recently as 2002, but Beecham used to obtain very good technical quality of sound for his day, and for the usual reason that he demanded it and there was no use in arguing. I also offer the following consideration as regards sound-quality - when it is a matter of large forces, say a symphony orchestra let alone the battalions necessary for grand opera, the nature of the sound that can be offered to us in our sitting-rooms simply cannot resemble other than distantly their real sound in ... Read More: Rating:  - I must say it...Nearly everyone praises this famous Boheme recording as the best ever. I think it is necessary, however, to make the important distinction between an outstanding recorded performance (which this is), and an excellent recording. This mono recording, sadly, was made shortly before the dawn of stereo, and therefore does not offer anything even close to the lush sound that modern ears are accustomed to. Mono is to stereo as black & white is to color. As a result, I consider this recording to be somewhat of a museum piece, albeit a beautiful one. I enjoy it, but it isn't my first choice because the sound does not fill the room or my head the way stereo does. Try London/Decca with Freni and Pavarotti if you can stand Karajan's slower tempos, or, ... Read More: Rating: - The Alternative to Karajan's BohèmeThis is in my opinion one of the best recordings of Puccini's opera 'La bohème', along with Karajan Freni-Pavarotti recording on DECCA. The orchestra is rich and Beecham's direction is masterful. The wonderful instrumental work goes its own way despite of what is going on on the stage, like if Beecham was more interested in the singing, but not in the acting, in what happens on stage. The Catalan soprano Victòria dels Àngels is a perfect Mimì, sweet and fragile, and she finds a perfect balance in the warm and fierce Rodolfo of Björling, making a good couple Mimì-sick woman / Rodolfo-vigorous man. Merrill sings very well and his role is very well represented in here. This is a remastered edition in the wonderful Great Recordings of the Century ... Read More: |
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