Franco Corelli - The very best of

Franco Corelli - The very best of

2CD - ADD - 75'37, 76'57



Performer: Franco Corelli, Mario Zanasi, Tito Gobbi, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Giuseppe Modesti, et al.
Composer: Vincenzo Bellini, Salvatore Cardillo, Francesco Cilea

When Franco Corelli was voted Favorite Tenor of the (20th) Century by members of the Bel Canto Society, he remarked that he was lucky the world had begun to forget Gigli. This digitally remastered EMI might persuade us that Corelli was being too modest. Listen as he spins out a sheer pianissimo in "E lucevan le stele." Listen to the huge, brilliant ring of "Di quella pira" and "Nessun dorma"--old tenor chestnuts I know, but Corelli makes them as vivid and new as the World's first dawn--and decide for yourself who had the most ravishing tenor of the past century.

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