Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Carlo Bergonzi, Cornell MacNeil, Birgit Nilsson, Giulietta Simionato, Sylvia Stahlmann, Tom Krause, Libero Arbace, Piero de Palma & Vittorio Pandano
Orchestra e Coro dell' Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Sir Georg Solti
The best things here are the singing of Birgit Nilsson and Carlo Bergonzi, classic accounts. But Solti's conducting is tense in the wrong way, fidgety and over-emphatic.
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Carlo Bergonzi, Cornell MacNeil, Birgit Nilsson, Giulietta Simionato, Sylvia Stahlmann, Tom Krause, Libero Arbace, Piero de Palma & Vittorio Pandano
Orchestra e Coro dell' Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Sir Georg Solti
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The best things here are the singing of Birgit Nilsson and Carlo Bergonzi, classic accounts. But Solti's conducting is tense in the wrong way, fidgety and over-emphatic.
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- Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1961-07
- Recording Venue: Santa Cecilia, Roma
- Fernando Corena (bass), Libero Arbace (bass), Sylvia Stahlman (soprano), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Cornell MacNeil (baritone), Piero de Palma (tenor), Giulietta Simionato (mezzo-soprano), Tom Krause (baritone), Vittorio Pandano (tenor), Birgit Nilsson (soprano)
- Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1961-07
- Recording Venue: Santa Cecilia, Roma
- Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Cornell MacNeil (baritone), Fernando Corena (bass), Libero Arbace (bass)
- Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1961-07
- Recording Venue: Santa Cecilia, Roma
- Cornell MacNeil (baritone), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Libero Arbace (bass), Fernando Corena (bass), Sylvia Stahlman (soprano), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)
- Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
- Sir Georg Solti
- Recorded: 1961-07
- Recording Venue: Santa Cecilia, Roma
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July 2007
The best things here are the singing of Birgit Nilsson and Carlo Bergonzi, classic accounts. But Solti's conducting is tense in the wrong way, fidgety and over-emphatic.
