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Title: Good budget price collection
Review: A disc of songs and a disc of arias mostly in their original languages and mostly from the 30's and sounding pretty good. The Strauss Morgen from 39 is very beautiful. The remastering done by this company adds a little reverb to the recordings which takes a little getting used to. The Requiem includes all of Bjorling's music and the sound is pretty good for a 1940 live broadcast. The young Milanov sounds much better than on her recordings from the 50's even if her singing is the same. Moscona was a good bass. The Missa doesn't sound quite as good. The soloists often seem too far from the microphone. Kipnis comes across much more clearly than the others. Possibly as a result of the remastering process the brass section sounds noticeably off pitch. Nice six page bio of Bjorling included. The Strauss aria at the end of disc 1 was replaced by a recording of Verdi's Ingemisco
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