COMPOSERS: Various
LABELS: EMI Réferences
PERFORMER: Jussi Bjorling
CATALOGUE NO: CDH 7 64707 2
EMI’s new compilation sounds startlingly realistic and presents Björling at the very height of his powers. Nimbus do almost (but not quite) as well by Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Mussolini’s favourite tenor and a trumpeting, aristocratic singer whose artistry and sense of line set new standards for his successors.