"Thomas Beecham's 1956 reading, with Victoria de los Angeles and Jussi
Björling its peerless stars, remains hors concours, its relaxed, easy
charm and emotional richness undimmed after almost a half-century in
the catalogue (EMI).":

[url]http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=5092&issueID=329[/url]
"Thomas Beecham's 1956 reading, with Victoria de los Angeles and Jussi
Björling its peerless stars, remains hors concours, its relaxed, easy
charm and emotional richness undimmed after almost a half-century in
the catalogue (EMI)."

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:28:34 +1100, [email]artsy6@gmail.com[/email] wrote
(in article
<12d3dea0-4c16-4426-bb8e-296447de7ce2@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com>):

> "Thomas Beecham's 1956 reading, with Victoria de los Angeles and Jussi
> Björling its peerless stars, remains hors concours, its relaxed, easy
> charm and emotional richness undimmed after almost a half-century in
> the catalogue (EMI).":
>
>
[url]http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=5092&issueID=329[/url]

> "Thomas Beecham's 1956 reading, with Victoria de los Angeles and Jussi
> Björling its peerless stars, remains hors concours, its relaxed, easy
> charm and emotional richness undimmed after almost a half-century in
> the catalogue (EMI)."

What brought that on?

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Cheers!

Terry

Terry <bozo@clown.invalid> appears to have caused the following letters to
be typed in news:0001HW.C5A29FA4000F3B54B01AD9AF@news.tpg.com. au:

> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:28:34 +1100, [email]artsy6@gmail.com[/email] wrote (in article
><12d3dea0-4c16-4426-bb8e-296447de7ce2@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com>):
>
>> "Thomas Beecham's 1956 reading, with Victoria de los Angeles and Jussi
>> Björling its peerless stars, remains hors concours, its relaxed, easy
>> charm and emotional richness undimmed after almost a half-century in
>> the catalogue (EMI).":
>>
> [url]http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=5092&issueI[/url]
> D=329
>
> What brought that on?

A desire to discuss recordings of classical music, perhaps? I agree with
the capsule description above, and when a want a "Boheme" with a lot of
"elbow room," so to speak, this is one to which I can easily return.

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