PUCCINI: La Boheme
Label: Regis Records
Format: CD
Categories: Opera, Vocal Music
Composers: Giacomo Puccini
Directors: Sir Thomas Beecham
Performers: Jussi Björling, RCA Victor Orchestra and Chorus, Robert Merrill, Victoria de los Angeles
Available: 14
Price: $15.99
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
La Boheme
Plus 7 bonus arias
Legendary Performances
Jussi Bjorling
Victoria de los Angeles
Robert Merrill
RCA Victor Orchestra and Chorus
Sir Thomas Beecham, director
See CD booklet for track listing
"Beecham's is a uniquely magical performance with two favourite singers del los Angelese and Bjorling, challenged to their utmost in loving, expansive singing"
Penguin Guide
los Angeles: right both in vocal quality and in sheer involvement with every word and every musical phrase...Hers is the most moving and involving Mimi on record. And Bjorling's in unquestionably the most musical Rodolfo...on record he is the one exponent of the role in my experience to be credible both as a lover and a poet. Beecham makes one realize what an intimate opera this is, how much of it is quest , how many of its exchanges are sotto voce, and he thus...largely cancels out the disadvantage of restricted dynamic range...as complete a distillation of Puccini's drama as you are likely to hear"
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