The recordings for this 2 CD set have been carefully selected to show to advantage the extraordinary control Gedda has over his vocal resources and also to demonstrate his remarkable gift for language. The French opera excerpts all display an appealing sense of style together with excellent musicianship, both traits so much admired in the 19th and early 20th centuries. His Russian scenes and arias have an authentic ring, his German highly romantic and his Italian arias although his voice does not possess that particular Mediterranean warmth, do nevertheless have a sense of morbidezza (tenderness) usually more associated with the Latin tenor.