Siberia (2004)

"As is so often the case with these things, you spend half your life with no recorded version of a particular work and then all of a sudden it comes in duplicate. Thus, Giordano’s Siberia was out of bounds and inaccessible until a live recording from Martina Franca in Italy opened up the borders, and now we are back with it in a newly released performance dating from 1973. (...) And perhaps most decisive, this 1973 performance is free from stage noises, which in the live recording is a continual vexation; another tiresome feature is that the voices carry a halo of stage resonance around with them while the orchestra plays within a different acoustic. On the strength of this I would even suggest that those who have already bought might consider it worthwhile to buy again. I found the opera worked to better effect in this ‘new’, 1973, version, both musically and dramatically."(gramophone.com) Deze CD's bevatten een live-opname uit 1973.

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