Word: basso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handel: Messiah (Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent conducting; Huddersfield Choral Society, with Isobel Baillie, soprano, Gladys Ripley, contralto, James Johnston, tenor and Norman Walker, basso; Columbia, two albums-38 sides, $22.50). An outstanding performance but not quite as good as the version done by Sir Thomas Beecham more than 15 years ago. Performance: orchestra and chorus, excellent; soloists, fair...
Opera Album: Mozart operatic arias,by the Metropolitan Opera's Basso Ezio Pinza (Columbia). Best single record: Verdi's Dite alia giovine (from La Traviata), by the Met's Licia Albanese and Robert Merrill (Victor...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Berlioz' Romeo and Juliet (second half), with Basso Nicola Moscona. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...punctuating his protests with bars from Tosca and Carmen. Said he: "After Caruso's death they said I was the one. Tagliavini (see below') is a good tenor but light. I am disgusted. I want to sing." The Chicago Tribune's captious Critic Claudia Cassidy interviewed Basso Nicola Rossi Lemeni by telephone, had him sing a few bars of Lamentation of a Siberian Prisoner, wrote a piece comparing him with Pinza and Chaliapin...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Basso Ezio Pinza, in selections by Verdi, Paisiello, Sibella and Forsythe...