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Great Tenor Arias.(Sound Recording Review)
Great Tenor Arias (from works by Gluck, Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Cimarosa, and Puccini). Juan Diego Florez, tenor. Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Recorded in 2003, at the Auditorium di Milano, Milan. Engineers: Jonathan Stokes and Philip Siney. 58+ minutes. Decca SACD 475 6787.
This is a fine sounding recording, as one might expect from an engineer like Stokes, whom I biographically profiled in the second edition of The Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound. There is a bit of background hall rumble, which is probably impossible to filter out without undercutting some of the musical spectrum. Stokes was once senior engineer at Decca (he now has his own freelance company, Classic Sound, in London), and the only recording engineer still working for the company is Siney, who did the surround mix and whom I also profile in the Encyclopedia.
Regarding that mix, we have a both a discrete center and a phantom, with the former not really contributing all that much. As I have noted in other columns, one reason that recording engineers shy away from routing all the center ...
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