Puccini: La Bohème
Jerry Hadley (Rodolfo), Angelina Réaux (Mimi), Thomas Hampson (Marcello), Barbara Daniels (Musetta), James Busterud (Schaunard), Paul Plishka (Colline), Joseph McKee (Benoit), Gimi Beni (Alcindoro)
Coro e Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Leonard Bernstein
Anyone who knows that there is much more to La boheme than voices will want to hear Bernstein's account of it...Indeed, I quite often found myself listening through the voices, so to speak,...
Puccini: La Bohème
Jerry Hadley (Rodolfo), Angelina Réaux (Mimi), Thomas Hampson (Marcello), Barbara Daniels (Musetta), James Busterud (Schaunard), Paul Plishka (Colline), Joseph McKee (Benoit), Gimi Beni (Alcindoro)
Coro e Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Leonard Bernstein
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Anyone who knows that there is much more to La boheme than voices will want to hear Bernstein's account of it...Indeed, I quite often found myself listening through the voices, so to speak,...
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- Jerry Hadley (tenor), Gimi Beni (bass), James Ramlet (bass), James Busterud (baritone), Paul Plishka (bass), Paul Kreider (bass), Angelina Reaux (soprano), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Norbert Balatsch (chorus master), Barbara Daniels (soprano), Don Bernardini (tenor)
- Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
- Leonard Bernstein
- Recorded: 1987-05
- Recording Venue: Auditorio di Via della Conciliazione, Rome
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Anyone who knows that there is much more to La boheme than voices will want to hear Bernstein's account of it...Indeed, I quite often found myself listening through the voices, so to speak, to some subtlety of harp figuration or wind chording that one often has no hope of hearing at all. Bernstein obviously loves the score very much…[Hampson] is a discovery: his warmly beautiful, expertly used voice is youthful-sounding also, but he never forces and gives a performance of real character and distinction
