COMPOSERS: Rossini
LABELS: Warner
WORKS: Ermione
PERFORMER: Cecilia Gasdia, Margarita Zimmermann, Ernesto Palacio; Prague Philharmonic Choir; Monte Carlo PO/Claudio Scimone
CATALOGUE NO: 2564 687519 (1988)
Any recording of Rossini’s early masterpiece is to be treasured, even if, as here, Ermione’s three tenors leave something to be desired. Cecilia Gasdia glitters as the eponymous heroine. Christopher Cook