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Verdi: La Forza del Destine (Maria Caniglia, soprano; Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano; Galliano Masini, tenor; Tancredi Pasero, bass; Carlo Tagliabue, baritone, and others with the EIAR Symphony Orchestra and chorus, Gino Marinuzzi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 36 sides). Some of the singers made Verdi's less worthy opera sound far better than the Aïda. Recording: good...
Mozart: Requiem (Pia Tassinari, Ebe Stignani, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Italo Tajo; orchestra and chorus of the E.I.A.R., Victor de Sabata conducting; Cetra-Soria, 16 sides). Mozart began writing this masterpiece in the last few months of his life, for another's memorial. Finished by his pupil Sussmayer, it has since served well as Mozart's own memorial. This is a recording of the magnificent performance in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome on the 150th anniversary of his death (1941). Recording: good...
...anything. A new phenomenon of what might be called selective enthusiasm has moved in lock, stock and barrel: when Briggs & Briggs and McKenna's can sell out their first shipment of the new "Messiah" recording within two days of arrival, when undergraduates will line up for copies of Italian Cetra discs at $3.25 a shot, when the inability of undergraduates to find seats at the BSO's Sanders Theater concerts begins rumblings of revolt. . . the days of indifference have ended...
Arie di Arie di Opere (Ferruccio Tagliavini with the Sinfonica dell' E.I.A.R., Ugo Tansini conducting; Cetra, 6 sides). The new hero of the Met's Italian fans (TIME, Jan. 20) sings arias from six operas (Mignon, Tosca, Rigoletto, The Barber of Seville, Manon, Elisir d'Amore). The Italian tempi are perhaps a little languid for U.S. tastes, but Tagliavini's contralto-like pianissimi are wondrously lyrical. The imported Italian discs (which cost a whopping $3.25 each) are technically as good as most U.S. recordings. Performance: excellent...
...other Cetra set is even more distinctive, being the first recording in the world of the Haydn oratorio, The Seasons. Another fine technical job features this set, which every lover of Haydn should at least hear, for its appealing simplicity and melodic beauty. The arias are like those of Mozart operas, the choral numbers serene, the orchestration surprisingly rich...