Dvorak: Rusalka / Hickox, Barker, Owens, Martin, Et Al

$21.98
Label
Chandos
Release Date
January 1, 2008
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DVORAK KVAPIL
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Barke, La Spina, Martin, Hickox
    Product Details ⌄



Mackerras unseated? This magical version from Australia comes close

Chandos certainly has guts, going toe-to-toe with Mackerras’s Gramophone Award-winning set. Hickox’s Australian forces need not fear the comparison. Cheryl Barker may not have the refulgent tones of Renée Fleming on Decca (who has?) but she is even more moving in conveying Rusalka’s desperation. Mackerras is still my must-own, but this runs it close.

-- Gramophone [3/2008]