Verdi: Ernani. (Riccardo Muti, La Scala Orchestra and Chorus, Placido Domingo)

National Review | May 4, 1984| | Copyright

In his lifetime, Verdi stormed at conductors and singers who thought that score and libretto were secondary to their temperamental twitches and to the power of their tonsils. Riccardo Muti's recording to Ernani (Angel-EMI DSCX 3942), live with the orchestra and chorus at La Scala, is a lesson in conducting Verdi. He brings to his direction a combination of permissiveness and control, a realization that in performing Verdi a razor's edge separates freedom and ...

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