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Bellini: Bianca e Fernando
Search: Eccomi alfin- guerrieri
from: Opera D'oro
Release Date January 04, 2005
I am mildly surprised that no-one has seen fit to review this set so far, given that there seems to be no studio recording and only one other live one, which looks good but is more expensive than this. The good news is that the sound is excellent - clean stereo with very little audience noise and just a little print-through audible when you listen on heaphones - and the singers are very good, too. Savastano was a second rank tenor; more of a "tenorino" than the real article, with a rather piercing sound, but he had splendid top notes and a good sense of line and style, despite the rather pinched tone. Yasuko Hayashi might be more familiar to collectors; she is an excellent Rachel in the Opera d'Oro "la Juive" (Richard Tucker in great form quite ... Read More:
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