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RECORDING INFORMATION To celebrate Decca's 75th year of recording — the launch of a new series of Classic Recitals from the LP era. Decca’s recorded legacy is dominated by the huge number of complete opera recordings and vocal recitals. While a vast number of these recordings have seen CD release in the past 20 years, many of the original LP recitals have been reissued with other material in order to increase the overall playing time due to the longer time available on CD, and modern covers have replaced the originals. This new mini-series is unashamedly nostalgic and presents original recitals as they were first published during the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. Original LP cover art is reproduced and the original back of the LP is used as the inside of the digipack. A clear tray is used with a detail from the original LP sleeve as a background, and the back of the digipack gives the tracklist and artist details in a uniform, current style. The American baritone Robert Merrill was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 4 June 1917 and had his early training from his mother. The majority of his career centred around his appearances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he made his debut in La traviata in 1945; his Covent Garden debut took place some twenty years later, in 1967. By 1973, Merrill had celebrated 500 operatic appearances. As late as 1975 Merrill made his London concert debut but it was twelve years before that he made this mainly Verdi recital, recorded in London under the direction of one of the finest Verdi interpreters of the past 50 years, Edward Downes. All the tracks on this recording with the exception of the excerpt from Pagliacci are receiving their first international release on CD. |
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