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At Sony's London studios, the little cluster of chairs and music stands looks somewhat at sea on an expanse of wooden floor. Studio 1 can accommodate 100 musicians; tonight it holds only ten. Two portable humidifiers are working overtime next to the soloist's stool, but the stool is unoccupied. I've arrived just in time for one of the musicians' contracted breaks.
It's January 2002, and I'm here to listen in on Ramon Vargas's latest project for BMG--a recital of arie antiche, called In My Heart, due for release early in 2003. This is not your standard star-tenor fare. With the recording industry veering ever popward, stadium-concert chestnuts are as "classical" ...