The Barber of Seville (Complete)
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The Barber of Seville (Complete)
Teresa Berganza, Enzo Dara, Hermann Prey, Luigi Alva, Stefania Malagu, London Symphony Orchestra / Abbado
[ DG The Originals / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 5 May 2000
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"..such fine orchestral playing. For Abbado's way with the LSO is to listen out for rossini's every cue of lighting and stage business: the Overture, for example..,really does conjure up a setting ''just before dawn'', with tiny slim oboe, flute and horn solos tip-toeing their way through every changing colour and harmony, as well as achieving a brilliance and biting edge at fortissimo."
(Gramophone 1986)
"Abbado's 1971 Barber is undoubtedly my favourite recording of [Barber] - not least for Teresa Berganza's tangy Rosina (spirited but never arch) and Luigi Alva's stylish, nimble Lindoro. Abbado's pacing of the famous 'Rossini crescendos', particularly in the long Act One finale, is masterly, and though it's a studio recording the wit and charm of the entire undertaking leaps out of the speakers." (Katherine Cooper, May 2014)
