Fabulous German Singers Wrestle With Verdi
01/01/2004
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Maria Reining, Helge Rosvaenge, Hans Hermann Nissen and Wilhelm Strienz are all fondly remembered for their star performances in German opera. Here they are challenged by music that makes totally different demands on them. They have strong ideas about how the music should go, and do their best to put their own individual stamp on it.The results are not Italian, but they are energetic and personal, an echo of a time now distant.Not a first Trovatore for your collection, then, but one for the connoisseur who feels he has enough of the idiomatic and is now in search of the unusual."