Fanny Heldy News
singer (1888-1973)
- soprano
- Belgium
- opera singer
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Massenet - Manon - Victoria de los Angeles
[…] presses forward or too slow when the music calls for greater spaciousness. Getting the tempo relationships right is half the battle, and Monteux's conducting here is an antidote to the current fashion for tempo extremes. Testament's sound favors the voices, but it's ripe and detailed, almost making you forget that it's not stereo. Full texts and translations are provided, too. There are other worthy versions of Manon, including the historic 1923 first recording with Fanny Heldy on Marston and stereo versions starring Beverly Sills (EMI) and, most recently, Angela Gheorghiu (EMI). But this one's still the champ.Testament makes this reissue even more irresistible by adding generous fillers--Angeles' contemporaneous recordings of Berlioz's Les Nuits d'été and Debussy's La Damoiselle élue, both with the Boston Symphony and Charles Munch. She's quite wonderful in the Berlioz without erasing memories of Régine Crespin (Decca) or Janet Baker (EMI), perhaps because some of the songs […]
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