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Stunning sound quality. Wonderful selection of arias.!
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Superb anthology of opera's greatest wonder.
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Lovely to have MC discs with simulacrums of original LP covers. New Warner remastering sweetens high notes but makes MC warm middle register more hoarse and chest register occasionally barren. Overall improved sound quality is most apparent in French concert programs and in the Rossini and Donizetti disc (once considered among nadirs of MC discography). Whatever incidental reservations you may have--and even if you have these discs in LP or earlier CD forms--this compilation is a true bargain. More than a precious memento of a superlative artist (and with the significant exception of some ugly singing on the Mozart and Beethoven disc), the collection provides an imaginative education of how to sing core opera repertoire. The singing set a gold standard as regards insight into the music and is now recognized everywhere as so good as to have widened what we now consider what constitutes that core. Some takes on the two Rarities CDs would have been better presented in the original form of their first LP issues. In their remastered form, the Tonini sessions material is good enough to warrant CD issue as an artistic entity on its own. Overall: highly recommended. Read full review
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