Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Were photography nothing more than an aid to memory-snapshots to be pasted in an album-it would perform a service; but in the right hands, the camera goes infinitely beyond the mere literal record. "There is," says Edward Steichen, dean of U.S. photographers, "the photography which seeks to translate into pattern and design the magic of a detail of growth and deterioration. Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created." In a word, photography has become...
Among the stopping points: the Jewel Song from Faust, Mi chiamano Mimi from Boheme, Signore, ascolta from Turandot. For insatiable Moffo fans, Angel also offers an album of Coloratura Arias (Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis) that are every bit as distinguished, with the single exception of the Lucia di Lammermoor Mad Scene: the delivery is splendid, but Moffo sounds about as mad as a hermit thrush...
...carries him to his 1960 recording of Esultate from Otello. Even as a baritone-and even through the sizzle of old shellac-his voice had the tenoresque freshness, vigor and ringing power that later carried him trii umphantly through 24 years at the Met and 223 Tristans. Among the album's treasures: a 1924 scene from Siegfried ("Nothung! Not hung! Schmiede mein Hammer"), and the Bridal Chamber Scene, from Lohengrin, recorded...
...fault if I consider seeing Turandot preferable to listening to their recording. The album does honor to Turandot. But Puccini's brazen, vivid score sounds best in the opera house--regardless of what high fidelity experts may claim. Furthermore, in a great opera like this, much of the music's power comes from its relation to the mise on scene...
...This album features Jussi Bjoerling's penultimate recorded performance. From it, we are all the more aware that this great Swedish tenor died when he still was near the top of his form. His battle of high notes with Turandot at the end of their last duet (itself the one truly exciting moment in Alfano's scoring) is a most extraordinary display of vocal power. His lyric rendition of much of the first act music makes his Calaf more sympathetic and more credible than any other I have heard...