Title: not the best possible
Review: While this performance is great and probably the best available, with Florez singing Ah mes amis twice, his performance in London with Dessay was better, due to her superb singing and better staging. It is a crying shame that Decca cannot or will not bring out the very best of his performances since they need to be preserved for posterity. Decca controls what comes out since he has an exclusive contract with them and they are the doorkeeper to his recordings. I believe that almost all live performances are taped and all Decca would have to do is to use the London performance tape and issue a version with Dessay. But whether Decca feels any obligation to art and to posterity is not certain.
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