
This is an interesting pre-authentic performance of Handel’s odd masterpiece, an opera that has not done well on CD. Years ago, a severely cut, peculiarly
Repackaging Pavarotti recordings for reissue seems to be a thriving cottage industry for Decca. You would think a 2-CD “Best Of …” set would suffice,
The Decca Singers volume devoted to Joan Sutherland has many of the positives and negatives common to others in the series. On the plus side
The Art of the Prima Donna was originally released in, I believe, 1961, as two separate LPs. I first heard it a few years later,
Joan Sutherland recorded this role commercially for Decca two years before this 1968 Roman RAI broadcast; nonetheless, she is more convincing and in slightly spryer