Puccini - La Boheme | Naxos - Historical 811124950

Puccini - La Boheme

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 811124950

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 26th February 2007

Contents

Artists

Jussi Björling
Victoria de los Angeles
Robert Merrill
Lucine Amara
Giorgio Tozzi
RCA Victor Chorus and Orchestra
The Columbus Boychoir

Conductor

Sir Thomas Beecham

Works

Puccini, Giacomo

La Boheme

Artists

Jussi Björling
Victoria de los Angeles
Robert Merrill
Lucine Amara
Giorgio Tozzi
RCA Victor Chorus and Orchestra
The Columbus Boychoir

Conductor

Sir Thomas Beecham

About

This release might well be called “The Ultimate Beecham Bohème,” as it brings together for the first time the conductor’s prewar and postwar recordings of the score as well as his spoken comments on the work, taken from a promotional LP issued at the time of the release of the complete recording.  
 
This 1956 set rightly ranks alongside the Callas/De Sabata Tosca as one of the greatest studio recordings of an opera ever made.  It has been transferred from the best portions of four RCA “Shaded Dog” pressings, which preserve the openness and impact of the original master tapes. The 1935 set of Act 4 (which originally credited Labbette under her operatic stage name, “Lisa Perli”) was transferred from mid-1930s American Columbia small-label “Master Works” pressings.
 
In the pantheon of recorded opera, Beecham's Bohème stands out eternally. The remarkable magic of Beecham's conducting, and the beautiful pairing of de los Angeles and Björling, two singers still firmly planted on any rational A-list of operatic superstars, has simply not been equalled in any other recorded version.
 
Recorded 16th, 17th and 30th March and 1st - 3rd, 5th and 6th April, 1956 in Manhattan Center, New York City

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