MFSL SIR GEORGE SOLTI - CARMEN AUDIOPHILE BOX SET
$
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Description
Mobile Fidelity Limited Edition #0998
Total playing time on three record set 2-Hours 40-Minutes. MFSL 3-350.
Stunning And Rare Half-Speed Mastered on 3 Long Playing Record Box Set With 36 Page Libretto. Sir George Solti conducting Bizet's Carmen. Packaged in a solid box set with a button flap. This Original Master Recording was made using the half-speed production process. The pressing was sourced from the original stereo master tapes. The disc was specially plated and pressed on high definition Super Vinyl by the Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. in 1984.
Review From The Penguin Stereo Record Guide
Georg Solti conducts Bizet's Carmen with Troyanos, Domingo, Te Kanawa, Van Dam and the London Philharmonic Orchestra with the John Alldis Choir and the Boy's Chorus from Haberdashers' Aske's School Elstree. The Penguin Stereo Record Guide gives this its best 3 Star rating, 'superb playing and singing stunningly brilliant recording. Yet Solti's Decca version is remarkable for its new illumination of characters. Troyanos is quite simply the subtlest Carmen on record. Escamillo too is more readily sympathetic, Don Jose is revealed as weak rather than just a victim. This dramatic and sensitive account from Solti must now take first place.
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