Word: tenoritis
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Pelléas et Mélisande by artists of the Paris Opera and Opera-Comique conducted by Piero Coppola (Victor, $10.50)?A surprisingly coherent recording of Debussy's elusive, misty music. Tenor Charles Panzera is an excellent Pelléas; Soprano Yvonne Brothier could learn much from Mary Garden, still greatest of Mélisandes...
SONG o' MY HEART (John McCormack) -scenic adaptation of eleven tenor solos...
...McCormack colors his celebrated upper register. In his customary manner, Mr. Borzage uses up a lot of film exhibiting the Irish village whence sprang the great ballad singer, the hero of the story. It is a badly integrated, inconclusive little story of frustrated love, frankly just a vehicle for Tenor McCormack. He sings eleven songs. His voice records beautifully, the slight metallic timbre of the talking machine eliminating the saccharine that makes McCormack cloying in his natural state. Song O' My Heart will undoubtedly be the greatest movie of the year to people who like "I Hear You Calling...
...BOHEME, made in Italy by Italian singers, the Scala Chorus and the Milan Symphony conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli (Columbia, $26)-One of the most satisfying of opera releases. Soprano Rosetta Pampanini (Mimi) and Tenor Luigi Marini (Rodolfo) sing in the approved Italian manner. The recording is excellent...
STALKER'S CRUCIFIXION by Tenor Richard Crooks, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, Organist Mark Andrews and Manhattan's Trinity Choir (Victor, $9)-For those who want their Easter music more orthodox than Wagner conceived it; recommended more for the excellence of its recording than for its musical substance...