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INVESTMENT Performance: Entrancing Sourcefulness of the Malfitanos CAL HERITAGE SOCIETY MHS 1976 $3.50 telescope. Yet the end result is exquisite and (plus 75e handling charge from Musical Heri- strangely affecting. tageSociety,Inc.,1991Broadway, New Indeed, the affective quality of this entire FOR A SOUND York, N.Y. 10023). recording bespeaks not only the taste and re- INVESTMENT Performance: Entrancing sourcefulness of the Malfitanos. daughter and Recording: Very good father, but is testimony to Miss Malfitano's rare beauty of voice and total command of the You Need Sound Advice... At a time when just about every programming musical substance and expressive potential of gimmick seems to have been tried, it is a real each of the works she sings here. And the 1975 STEREO DIRECTORY & pleasure to encounter a program that is origi- recorded sound, like the performances, is BUYING GUIDE nal and arresting in content, utterly free of flawless. 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That posnion should have been given to the Consumer Service Division whose sliding violin tones lend just the right Lucia duet, in which the conducting of Thom- 595 Broadway New York, N.Y. 10012 eastern Mediterranean touch to his own text as Schippers seems a shade over -energetic Please send the Annuals checked below: telling how Hercules built, from the notes of a but the singing of Beverly Sills and Carlo Ber- ID 1975 Stereo Directory & Buying Guide, $1.85 (1) singing swan, "a path to hell and up to heaven, gonzi cannot be faulted. 1975 Tape Recording & Buying Guide, $2.25 ABOVE PRICES INCLUDE POSTAGE AND HANDLING to part the dead from: the living." The Villa - "The Mad Scenes" collection contains ap- CHARGES. Outside U.S.A. copies are $3.00 each, Lobos songs are colorful vignettes inthe propriate episodes from I Puritani, Lucia di postpaid. composer's most spontaneous Brazilian na- Lammermoor, Anna Bolena,andHamlet. TDTAL ENCLOSED $ SR65 tional style. Finally, the setting of the Paolo The singing of Beverly Sills is a model of mu- ResidentsofCalif.,Col.,Fla.,Ill.,Mich.,Mo., and Francesca episode from Dante by the late sical accuracy, dramatic insight, and expres- N.Y. State, D.C. and Tex. add applicable sales tax. Boris Blacher is something of a curiosity. The siveness. The florid embellishments in the print name small scale of the voice -and -violin combina- repeat of "Vien diletto" (I Puritani) are over- address tion (remember the orchestral interpretations done, and the final high E -flat is not the firm- of the story by Liszt and Tchaikovsky) gives est note imaginable, butthese are minor city me the feeling of witnessing Francesca's pa- flaws. Full texts and good annotations are state zip thetic narrative as through the wrong end of a supplied with both albums. JUNE 1975 109.
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