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Title: Unrepresentative of classical singing
Review: It is laughable that people can consider Russell Watson to have been singing opera when he hasn't even performed an opera on the stage. In fact, he isn't able to perform classical vocal music without amplification, which immediately exposes the fact that Mr Watson isn't neither a tenor nor a competent classical singer.The only thing that he is doing here is to trace the "tunes" of some classical songs. Unfortunately, he can't even do this well - his singing is hoarse and coarse and there's little by way of interpretation. Even if we disregard all the markings in the original score (which Watson is, of course, incapable of realising with his severely limited vocal means), his singing is still extremely unsubtle.In all, a low point in the history of vocal recordings. An album to forget.
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