Rossini - Le Comte Ory - Oncina, Barabas, Roux - Gui 19562CDs - ADD Mono - 56'27, 56'23
EMI Classics 1992
Michel Roux - Raimbaud, Jeannette Sinclair - Alice, Juan Oncina - Le Count Ory, Monica Sinclair - Ragonde, lan Wallace - Le Gouverneur, Cora Canne-Meijer - Isolier, Sari Barabas - Le Comtess Adele, Dermot Troy - Un jenue noble
The Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra and Chorus
Vittorio Gui - conductor
Date of Recording: 1956
Venue: Abbey Road Studios, London
Gui gives a wonderful performance, missing none of the amazing beauties of the score—lovely woodwind solos, delicate "placing" of the fleeting modulations and surprising melodic curves. The cast is excellent... Sari Barabas has a sweet, fragile and accurate coloratura; again, one would like to hear more Toti-like exquisite phrasespinning in the duet—but listen to the elaborately adorned cadence to see the high accomplishment of Barabas and Oncina. Barabas does some astonishingly flexible and accurate darting... --Gramophone
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