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Title: No prize for this old Turandot
Review: Nilsson was in bad voice. Bjoeling way,way, past his prime and needed ultra extra microphone that sounds fake. Tebaldi couldn't handle Liu's tessitura. And the noisy, poor 1959 sound conducted by a second rate conductor.Go for the Nilsson/Corelli 1964 live recording. That will blow you away. Nilsson was in super voice, he and Corelli fight to see who holds the longest high C. Wow.Another great is Sutherland/Pav/Caballe. Mehta is the real star in that one. Although Sutherland has the most beautiful voice I've ever heard although not a consonant in sight. Yet she has the voice Puccini would have like as the heroine-a Italian trained sound rather than Nilsson's Wagnerian one. Caballe is the ultimate liu.Anyway, take your pick. But not this one. Bjoeling is too tiny a voice and kills the piece.
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