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Title: Limited sound quality, but a quite splendid performance
Review: A reviewer in the reliable Penguin Guide to Compact Discs, 2005/6 Edition, said of this Naxos issue, in part:"Few singers on disc can match Eleanor Steber as Violetta in the historic live recording of La Traviata made at the Met ... on New Year's Day, 1949 ... The beauty and precision as well as the power of Steber's singing are phenomenal ...". Equally high praise is given to Di Stefano and Merrill and to the conductor Antonicelli.Welcome bonuse tracks of Steber, in rather poorer sound quality than for the opera, include a duet version of 'Will you remember' with Bjoerling.Listeners will immediately become aware that these are not high fidelity recordings - but, what magnificent singing.
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