COMPOSERS: Granados
LABELS: Naxos
ALBUM TITLE: Granados
WORKS: María del Carmen
PERFORMER: Soloists; Wexford Festival Opera Chorus; National Philharmonic Orchestra of Belarus/Bragado-Darman
CATALOGUE NO: 8.660144-45 (2004)
A poetic prelude introduces an opera of slender substance and monotonous pacing, despite passages of genuine charm. Decent singing and playing, apart from Diana Veronese’s wobbly Maria.
Malcolm Hayes