?this set is well worth hearing and ... has a price advantage... Who but Milanov... Fills Mascagni's grateful phrases with quite such
full, lustrous tone, and has such a feeling for the text?.. This is verismo singing on the grandest, most authentic scale... Bjorling may be a trifle gentlemanly for Turiddu, but his singing is an exemplars of the spinto style at its best, with such fine shading of tone and inward feeling for the part... As Alfio, Merrill turns in one of his most considerable performances on disc?"
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