Great recording! | Puccini - La Bohème / Freni, Pavarotti, Harwood, Ghiaurov, Karajan

I don't see how this one could be bettered | Puccini - La Bohème / Freni, Pavarotti, Harwood, Ghiaurov, Karajan | Giacomo Puccini, Mirella Freni, ...

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	• Puccini - La Bohème / Freni, Pavarotti, Harwood, Ghiaurov, Karajan Giacomo Puccini, Mirella Freni, ... Decca, 1990 average customer review:based on 54 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

As good as it gets

This recording hardly needs another 5 star review, but after becoming reacquainted with it today I must offer my two cents. Pavarotti and Freni, in their vocal primes, give heartfelt performances that capture all the joy, melancholy, sadness and nostalgia that is this opera. But just as importantly, Herbert von Karajan's highly pictorial conducting allows the orchestra to become as much a participant as the principal singers. Except for short crowd scenes in Act II, this is a small scaled, very human work and the lush sound of the Berlin Philharmonic might be an obstacle to some listeners, but rest assured under von Karajan the orchestra plays as nimbly as a string quartet. Although Elizabeth Harwood might not be everyone's first choice as Musetta she's plenty good enough. This has to be one of the very finest performances of this work ever recorded.

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Great recording!

This is one of my first opera CD and it sounded wonderful. I particularly enjoyed track 3 of disc 2 when Mimi was talking to Marcello about her relationship with Rudolf. Definitely recommended to people who is new to Opera! I will be looking to collect other puccini operas soon. hehe!

I don't see how this one could be bettered

Although some of the most ardent opera buffs will still prefer Beecham, this is really the version to turn to for most people. This is quite simply Pavarotti's best role, full of vigour and poetry. If one really wished to find something to pick on, it would perhaps be that he only rarely seems willing to sing quietly, but the feeling (in particular the desperation) and warmth he brings to the role is, as far as I know, unmatched. Freni also, in my view, outperforms e.g. Callas, at least in terms of sheer beauty of sound, although a case could be made that Callas is the superior interpreter. Panerai and Harwood are excellent as well.

But if there is anything sweeping all competition aside, it is Karajan. He has simply got it all, focus on orchestral beauty as well as a taut grip on the drama and momentum. Put that together with splendid sound, and you've got a winning set. A must.

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excellent

This is a terrific recording. Pavarotti and Freni sing beautifully and Karajan's conducting is quite sublime.

Simply the Best

I have been listening to this recording since my parents played it in the living room when I was in the single digits. At this point it is so profoundly hard-wired into my brain that it is difficult to be objective about it; but every so often I hear another recording of La Boheme and realise why I love it so much. The cast is superb and it has the raw, youthfulness that La Boheme normally lacks. Most of all, this is Pavarotti at his very, very best, and in my view no tenor can even come close.

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Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 1-JAN-2002

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Tracks
La Boheme: Act One - Questo mar rosso | La Boheme: Act One - Pensier profundo! | La Boheme: Act One - Legna! | La Boheme: Act One - Si può? | La Boheme: Act One - Lo resto | La Boheme: Act One - Chi è la? | La Boheme: Act One - Si sente meglio? | La Boheme: Act One - Che gelida manina | La Boheme: Act One - Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì | La Boheme: Act One - O soave fanciulla | La Boheme: Act Two - Aranci, ninnoli! Caldi i marroni e | La Boheme: Act Two - Chi guardi? | La Boheme: Act Two - Viva Parpignol! Parpignol! Parpignol! | La Boheme: Act Two - Oh! ... Essa! ... Musetta! | La Boheme: Act Two - Quando men vo | La Boheme: Act Two - Chi l'ha richiesto? | La Boheme: Act Three - Ohè là, le guardie! Aprite! | La Boheme: Act Three - Sa dirmi, scusi, qual'è l'osteria | La Boheme: Act Three - Mimì ! | La Boheme: Act Three - Marcello. Finalmente! | La Boheme: Act Three - Mimì è una civetta | La Boheme: Act Three - Mimì è tanto malata! | La Boheme: Act Three - Donde lieta uscì al tuo grido | La Boheme: Act Three - Dunque è proprio finita! | La Boheme: Act Four - In un coupé? | La Boheme: Act Four - O Mimì , tu più non torni | La Boheme: Act Four - Si sgombrino le sale! | La Boheme: Act Four - C'è Mimì ... c'è Mimì che mi segue | La Boheme: Act Four - Vecchia zimarra, senti | La Boheme: Act Four - Sono andati? Fingevo di dormire | La Boheme: Act Four - Che avvien?

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