Verdi Il trovatore
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Composer or Director: Giuseppe Verdi
Genre:
Opera
Label: Gold Seal
Magazine Review Date: 6/1991
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 121
Mastering:
ADD
Catalogue Number: GD60560

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(Il) trovatore |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Arturo Basile, Conductor Giorgio Tozzi, Ferrando, Bass Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Laura Londi, Ines, Soprano Leonard Warren, Count di Luna, Baritone Leonardo Monreale, Old Gypsy, Bass Leontyne Price, Leonora, Soprano Mario Carlin, Ruiz, Tenor Richard Tucker, Manrico, Tenor Rome Opera Chorus Rome Opera Orchestra Rosalind Elias, Azucena, Mezzo soprano Tommaso Frascati, Messenger, Tenor |
Composer or Director: Giuseppe Verdi
Genre:
Opera
Label: Gold Seal
Magazine Review Date: 6/1991
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
ADD
Catalogue Number: GK60560

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(Il) trovatore |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Arturo Basile, Conductor Giorgio Tozzi, Ferrando, Bass Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Laura Londi, Ines, Soprano Leonard Warren, Count di Luna, Baritone Leonardo Monreale, Old Gypsy, Bass Leontyne Price, Leonora, Soprano Mario Carlin, Ruiz, Tenor Richard Tucker, Manrico, Tenor Rome Opera Chorus Rome Opera Orchestra Rosalind Elias, Azucena, Mezzo soprano Tommaso Frascati, Messenger, Tenor |
Author: Alan Blyth
Although the other singers are in fresher voice than Warren, none matches his performance as an entity. In the first of her Leonoras, Leontyne Price sings in an uninteresting, faceless manner, hardly helped by her often opaque tone; against that must be set the opulence and vibrancy of the sound and the security of the technique, trills and all. Elias tries hard to inject character into Azucena's music, but the voice is hardly Italianate or rich enough for the role; still, one has to admire the good intentions of an honest trouper. Tucker is stylish and musicianly as in his other Manricos, but in the studio he is less involved than for Schippers live at Florence (Nuova Era/New Note). Tozzi is a reliable rather than inspired Ferrando.
Basile is to be applauded for his energetic, buoyant conducting but not for the cuts he permits in the score (most heinous of which are the Leonora/Manrico marriage duet and Leonora's second cabaletta, ''Tu vedrai''), though one has to admit that some occur in the Cellini and Karajan versions. The recording isn't very well focused and there is a good deal of distortion, probably on the original tape. I think preference has to be given to any of the three mono sets listed above, whose various merits have been well documented in these pages. If you want more up-to-date sound try Davis (Philips, 8/90) or Mehta (RCA, 8/88).'
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