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Friday Review: Review music: CLASSICAL CD RELEASES
2002
Overview
Taped live at the Florence festival in 1951, this version of Macbeth features the legendary singer-actress Astrid Varnay in one of her few Verdi roles and also allows us to hear the great Vittorio Gui conduct an opera he never recorded in the studio. Varnay brings to Lady Macbeth a combination of intelligence and insight, producing a frightening, complex study of psychological disintegration. Gui, taking the score extremely slowly, generates an atmosphere of unspeakable malignancy. The playing and choral singing are electric, but of the rest of the cast only Gino Penno's noble, traumatised Macduff matches Varnay's intensity. Ivan Petroff is the thuggish Macbeth, while Italo Tajo's Banquo is workmanlike, no more. Well worth hearing, though the sound is patchy, even by the standards of the period.
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Guardian News & Media Limited
