This delightful group of recordings by the young Victoria de los Angeles ought to find listeners beyond the group of operatic collectors at whom it is primarily aimed. Made between 1950 and 1964, they remained mostly unreleased for various reasons. The 1964 group, conducted by Yehudi Menuhin, was rejected because of the obvious struggles faced by EMI's engineers working in London's freakishly reverberant Temple Church -- the two Bach cantata arias here sound as though they are being played on the sound system of a public ...
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This delightful group of recordings by the young Victoria de los Angeles ought to find listeners beyond the group of operatic collectors at whom it is primarily aimed. Made between 1950 and 1964, they remained mostly unreleased for various reasons. The 1964 group, conducted by Yehudi Menuhin, was rejected because of the obvious struggles faced by EMI's engineers working in London's freakishly reverberant Temple Church -- the two Bach cantata arias here sound as though they are being played on the sound system of a public swimming pool. The sound is just as bad on the 1950 "V'adoro, pupille," from Handel's Giulio Cesare, originally released as part of a series covering the history of music. And conductor Adrian Boult put the kibosh on some 1959 recordings of Handel arias because he was dissatisfied with the Handel edition used -- the swoops and slurs marked in the strings made Handel sound like a member of the modern British pastoralist school. None of this matters too much when the voice of de los...
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