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For the first time we hear the glory of the young Callas taking on this role that was to become so strongly identified with her. Immortal Performances provides a fuller, warmer, more natural sound throughout, and the longer one listens the more gratifying that becomes. Compression and artificial reverb made the recording sound terribly artificial and canned. The best earlier release was by Instituto Discografico Italiano (IDIS 6394-95), and it was only slightly better than the others.

There are quite a few reasons to prefer this recording, though they have not been evident before because of the terrible transfers in circulation, particularly on Fonit Cetra, Arkadia, and Melodram. Covent Garden performance/Rescigno/Vickers The others are (with conductor and tenor listed):ĩ/12–19/1957 Studio recording/Serafin/Picchi This Medea is the earliest of six recordings of this signature role for Callas. Because I wrote the Lucia notes for this set, I am only reviewing the Medea, something I asked to do because of the unique importance of this performance in the Callas catalogue and the remarkable quality of Richard Caniell’s restoration.

One reason that I don’t accept payment is to remove any suggestion of a conflict of interest in reviewing their products, but I believe it is important to explicitly state the facts here so that the reader can make up her own mind. There is no payment of any kind for these notes (other than a couple of complimentary copies of the recording). I write notes on occasion for the booklets that accompany Immortal Performances’ releases, and in fact wrote the notes for the Lucia performance in this release. We begin this review with a full disclosure. IMMORTAL PERFORMANCES 1076-4 mono (4 CDs: 272:51) Live: 1Teatro Comunale, Florence, 2Metropolitan Opera, New York.

Vittorio Gui, 2Fausto Cleva, cond Maria Callas (1Medea, 2Lucia) 1Fedora Barbieri (Neris) 1Gabrielli Tucci (Glauce) 2Giuseppe Campora (Edgardo) 2Enzo Sordello (Enrico) 1Mario Petri (Creonte) 2Nicola Moscona (Raimondo) 1Ch & O of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2Metropolitan Op Ch & O.Reviews for Medea / Lucia double album | IPCD 1076-4Ĭherubini MEDEA & Donizetti LUCIA DI LAMMERMOORĬHERUBINI Medea.(1)DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor(2)