VERDI: Il Trovotore 2CD

VERDI: IL TROVOTORE (Libretto: Cammarano)

Jussi Björling; Zinka Milanov; Leonard Warren;
Fedora Barbieri; Nocola Moscona; Margaret Roggero;
Paul Franke; George Cehanovsky; Nathaniel Sprinzena

Robert Shaw Chorale
& the RCA Orchestra
conducted by Renato Cellini

"Barbieri...creates her own momentum with a most exciting, flame-like slender vibrato which grips on to the emotional core of every second...her sensitivity to the verbal life of every line, too, which thrills...But this, of course, is primarily Björling's Il Trovotore. The very opitome of a story-book hero from a distant epoch, his performance is marvellously boyish, wide-awake and physical in the tingling sentience of its every moment...Robert Shaw's excellent Chorale triumph with their superb use of words to propel the drama along."
Gramophone Publications