In a message dated 9/25/00 12:32:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
BLYTHE@B... writes:
<< This was the first recording of the Strauss that I heard. Nothing since has
approached it. Her voice here is so *instrumental*, so smooth and nuanced,
with a long spun-out line such as I hear in the very best violinists, and
which one notices when la Bartoli sings "Sposa son disprezatta". john
>>
Wasn't she the first Ariadne I ever heard? I fell in love with that opera
through a recording that also included Herman Prey.
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